The Golden Spike

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Title: The Golden Spike (Ballantine 2)
Author: Hal Ellson
Artist: Robert Maguire
Year: 1952

“This is a drug addict. He is 16. This angry novel tells his story with truth and compassion”

Categories: Drug Use

LSD Orgy

Title: LSD Orgy (Companion Book CB19)
Author: Marcus Miller
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1967

“Their psychedelic sin-trip passed the point of no return”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Drug Use

Never on A Sin Day

Title: Never on A Sin Day (ALL STAR AS-65)
Author: Peter Dunning
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1965

“Queers of a feather flock together”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

Street Law

I just discovered this sinister track “Goodbye My Friend” (from Enzo Castellari’s 1974 Death Wish clone: Il Cittadino Si Ribella aka Street Law) on a vinyl comp of Italian film scores from The M & G Orchestra. The vinyl version sounds superior and might be a variant. The disk has another 5-6 great tracks and was one of my better recent record finds.

In the Shadows

Title: In the Shadows (Midwood No. F139)
Author: Joan Ellis
Artist: Robert Maguire
Year: 1962

“She longed to declare a love that the world would not accept… Was it right to love her brother’s wife so passionately?”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

Sl*t’s Paradise

Title: Slut’s Paradise (RAVEN RB 731)
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Author: Marc Haynes
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1965

He ran a hotel for high priced bimbos and leering lesbians…

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

Hot Flesh

Title: Hot Flesh (RAVEN RB 711)
Author: Dino Romano
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1963

“Consumed by the fires of unnatural lusts in a [sic] they went beyond the limits of promiscuity and committed the most unpardonable sin!”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

Sin Show

Title: Sin Show (Midnight Reader MR 403)
Author: Don Holliday
Artist: Unknown (likely Robert Bonfils or Harold McCauley)
Year: 1961

“They sold sawdust and sex in a rolling Love-Circus! Passion for sale on a midway of loose living women and sex-hungry men. Here they are–a side show of warped morals and animal heat among the girlie shows and con games of a sucker paradise that knows no bounds.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA