More Than Pretty Pictures: Tag Lines in Classic Pulp Novels
By Eric Beetner
April 25, 2013Let’s face it: a book cover is a seduction. No one knew this better than the pulp fiction publishers of the 1940s and ’50s, their covers all gussied up with lurid colors, barely clad women, big black guns, and promises of what was between the covers. But what’s a seduction without a good pickup line?…
