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Beach Reads for Hot Girl Summer—Pulp Art

Hot girl summer is upon us (whatever the hell that means), and we’re getting into the spirit.

The cover that inspired this post. You can download the whole book, here.
(Unfortunately, I don’t know the artist). 

To keep our social media going I have folders upon folders of pulp paperback covers. Many from pulpcovers.com — check them out if you haven’t before. 

Anyway, with Summer upon us, I went to our “Summer Folder” and figured I’d just throw all of the vintage sleaze up on one post for #hotgirlsummer — if that’s still a thing.  

Vintage Sleaze

I’ll break these covers down by category. Robert Bonfils and Paul Rader really shined in the softcore porn on the beach genre, I must say. Enjoy.

Art by Don Neiser – 1959
1966
Art by Paul Rader
Art by George Gross
Art by Robert McGinnis
Art by Charles Rodewald
Art by Paul Rader
Bill Edwards
Art by Robert Bonfils
Art by Robert Bonfils
Art by Al Rossi
Art by J. Oval
Art by Harry Barton
Art by Al Rossi
Art by Robert Bonfils
Art by Paul Rader
Lol he’s reachin’ – I don’t know the artist
Robert Bonfils
Art by Paul Rader
Art by Harry Barton
Art by Robert Bonfils
Art by George Gross
Art by Robert Bonfils
Art by Paul Rader
Art by Rafael DeSoto
Art by Robert Bonfils
Art by Darrel Greene
Art by Robert Bonfils
Art by Robert Schulz
Art by J. Oval
Art by Fred Fixler

Men’s Adventure

Art by Victor Prezio – March 1967
Art by Norm Eastman – Dec 1962
Art by Wil Hulsey – Dec. 1959
Art by Leo Summers – July1957
Art by Roger Kastel – June 1965
Art by Robert Schulz

The Rest

Because I couldn’t put Agatha Christie in a Vintage Sleaze or Men’s Adventure category. This is the catchall, they just all take place on a beach. 

Art by James Meese
Art by Jack Keay
Art by Mike Ludlow
Art by Greg Manchess
Art by Glen Orbik
Art by Robert McGinnis
Art by Peter Driben – December 1950
Art by Stanley Borack
Art by Robert McGinnis
Art by Kurt Ard for The Saturday Evening Post – August 16, 1958
Art by H. William Reusswig – January 1934
Art by Enoch Bolles
Art by Paul Mann
Art by Robert McGinnis
Art by Brendon Lynch – July 1960
Art by Tom Lovell for Good Housekeeping – May 1956
Art by Walter Baumhofer
Art by Arnold Tayler
Art by Arthur Sarnoff for Coronet magazine – August 1954
Art by Lou Feck
Art by Greg Hildebrandt