“I’m not a punch card, I’m a human being!” An upright married couple tries to resist the sinister computer corporation AWP (Automated Work Planning) and the neighborhood bisexual dominatrix club for bored housewives: the two natural enemies of respectable monogamy. Amazing mid-60s pulp erotica: equal parts reactionary sleaze, satire of IBM, and dystopian warning against the gathering storm of relentlessly ambitious female computer programmers. Hostile to robots.
“What gets into a woman to go homosexual?” Vintage sleaze that does its best to investigate the question. With explicit scenes frequently paused for equally explicit admiration of a house’s huge basement, glassed-in sunporch, sprawling patio, and “handsomely wood-paneled den.” Late ’60s lesbian pulp erotica of the affluent suburbs. OCLC does not locate the title.
Early ’60s pulp erotica with incidental lesbian themes and a correspondingly suggestive cover. Women of a brothel “[sin] on thrones of their own design as if they were rulers of a lust kingdom…thrown into a pool of swirling shame, replete with death, as an unwanted swimming companion. Who could survive?” Who indeed.
Third in the “Man from C.A.M.P.” series, starring Jackie Holmes, a millionaire secret agent who fights homophobia and seduces grateful men wherever he goes. In this installment, Holmes assembles a team to foil the assassin Butterfly with spycraft and amateur theatricals. By the legendary and prolific Victor Banis, writing as Don Holliday. Banis wrote of his creation: “In a sense, gay pride could be said to have started with Jackie Holmes.”
Fourth in the “Man from C.A.M.P.” series, starring Jackie Holmes, a millionaire spy who fights homophobia and seduces grateful men wherever he goes. In this installment, Holmes helps out Interpol by tracing the kidnappers of handsome blond teenage boys, from Tijuana to a ‘stud-house’ in Lisbon. By the legendary and prolific Victor Banis, writing as Don Holliday. Banis wrote of his creation: “In a sense, gay pride could be said to have started with Jackie Holmes.”
Quintessentially ’60s gay pulp. Fifth in the James Bond-esque “Man from C.A.M.P.” series, starring Jackie Holmes, a handsome blond millionaire spy who fights homophobia and seduces grateful men wherever he goes. In this installment, Holmes falls in love with a baron and visits the haunted Castle Gaye. Cover copy promises: “THAT MAN FROM C.A.M.P CRUISES A GRUESOME GHOST!” Includes a wistful reference to a (fictional) “legendary film version of [Mary Renault’s classic novel] The Charioteer.” By the legendary and prolific Victor Banis, who later wrote of his creation: “In a sense, gay pride could be said to have started with Jackie Holmes.”
Eighth in the “Man from C.A.M.P.” series, starring Jackie Holmes, a handsome blond millionaire who fights homophobia and seduces grateful men wherever he goes. In this installment, a gang of dognappers, led by the dominatrix Anna Lingus, is “plundering the wealth of individuals whose lives of shameless sin will not allow them to seek police protection.” By the legendary and prolific Victor Banis, writing as Don Holliday. Banis wrote of his creation: “In a sense, gay pride could be said to have started with Jackie Holmes.”
Gay-themed erotic pulp, notable for its use of post-Vietnam War veteran trauma as a plot device. With deceptively sensitive back cover copy and a high-minded foreword that namechecks Alexander the Great and Oscar Wilde. Cover art features a rugged hitchiker. OCLC locates two copies (Brown and NWern).
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