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L'OEIL DE LA POLICE #222 (1913)

"The Eye of the Police"

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Zigomar contre Zigomar

8 issues in 1924. Serial written by Léon Sazie. Format circa 185 x 240 - 32 pages/2columns. Other series devoted to Zigomar existed previously, and others will follow. Rare and expensive stuff nowadays... I have just unearthed them in one of the galleries of my reserve with a hundred others of the same acabit.

cover art: Henri Armengol

publisher: Joseph Ferenczi & Fils, 9 rue Antoine Chan,tin, Paris 14è

source:amsaklapper’s collection

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FLETRIE et VENGEE (Editions Ferenczi, 1926)

"Ferenczi (then J. Ferenczi & fils) was a French publishing house founded in 1879 by Joseph Ferenczi (1855-1934), a French publisher of Hungarian origin. This house is one of the major players in the "popular novel" genre and the illustrated novel during the first half of the twentieth century. It disappeared in 1966."

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L’hallucinante aventure

Weird adventure pulp written by a specialist of the genre: Maurice Limat. Published at Editions ABC in october 1943. Format 155 x 210 - 32 pages, small typo.

One more noteworthy cover illustration by André Liquois, a great talent.

cover: André Liquois

publisher: Editions ABC, 22 rue Bergère, Paris, (9ème)

source:amsaklapper’s collection

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Pulp advertisement

For the belgian detective pulps series “Police”. At least 21 issues, no date (but 1946, for sure). All titles are reissues from Editions Ferenczi’s pre-war collection “Police”. More than reissues: rebroachings - just a new [beautiful] printed cover to overlay the original Ferenczi pulp (that all had photographic covers). Each number announced the next issue, reproducing its cover on the verso.

« Collection Police »

1 Le robot fantôme – Ange Arbos

2 La maison du canal – André-Michel

3 Les naufrageurs de l’air – Louis-Roger Pelloussat

4 Le prince de la cambriole – Gille Hersay

5 A l’enseigne du “Petit Matelot” – Claude Ascain

6 Un appel dans la nuit – Léo Gestelys

7 L’empreinte – André Charpentier

8 Voleurs de pétrole – Louis-Roger Pelloussat

9 Le justicier – Max-André Dazergues

10 Le docteur sanglant – Léo Gestelys

11 Francis-le-balafré – F.Francis Furnes

12 Le secret du valet de chambre – Claude Ascain

13 L’ogre de Baurande – Henri-Georges

14 Le cas de Sir Arthur Will – André Charpentier

15 L’assassinat du suicidé – André-Michel

16 Poignards hindous – Maurice Courtangy

17 L’homme aux mains de gorille – Gille Hersay

18 Caïn – Marie Thiery

19 L’implacable étreinte – F. Sernada

20 Les vengeurs de Brahma – Georges Fronval

21 La femme au parfum d’acacia – Albert Bonneau

Publisher:SOCODEI,47 rue du Houblon, Bruxelles, Belgique

cover art: unknown

source:amsaklapper’s collection

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D for...Darcy, D for...Drama

Here is a sampling of popular novels that Paul Darcy published at Editions Rouff. All these stories are dramatic novels, real dramas, dramatic romances or comedies with dramatic accents. Love and loss. Passions, pride, cravings, greed - money, robberies, scams, blackmail, kidnapping, rape... lead the dance. But all good that ends good ? Not ever. “Romans pour midinettes”? A voir.

Paul Darcy (real name:Paul Salmon) signed also Robert Navailles, Paul Dancray, Philippe Jardys and had many other pen-names. Those pulps for Rouff issued between 1925 and 1935, in the series ”Mon Roman Complet illustré”, “Les  Romans Vécus” and “Le Livre Illustré”. A testimony of that era, as well as the cover art (always in tune with the contents).

Publisher: Editions F.Rouff, 8 Boulevard de Vaugirard, Paris XVè

cover art: G.Niezab, R. Courtois, Gil Baer, Armengol,...

source:amsaklapper’s collection

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On a volé la chatelaine

French crime pulp written by P.F. Millet. No precise series, just one of the numerous pulps published at S.E.N/Nicea. This one issued in Summer 1945. Format 115 x 140 - 16 pages/2 columns, small typo.

cover art: Emmanuel Gaillard

publisher: SEN, 11 rue Tronchet, Paris

source:amsaklapper’s collection

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Le Petit Roman Policier

French crime pulps series. 112 issues [July 1938 - March 1942].  Format 32 pages - circa 105 x 160. The author’s name was only indicated inside. Published by Editions Ferenczi [#001 to #100], then - France defeated and occupied: June 1941, Applying their policy of aryanization, the Germans had put Ferenczi under sequestration and entrusted the publishing house to Jean de la Hire - the label becoming Editions du Livre Moderne.

Really a very nice series and interesting stories (most of them will be reissued in the series “Mon Roman Policier” after the war)

Reproduced:

# 12 L’effraction de la rue des Saints Pères - Pierre d’Aurimont

# 15 L’homme qui s’escamote - Claude Ascain

# 45 N°9 voiture verte - Jean Daye

# 55 Un scandale mondain - Claude Ascain

# 81 Le voleur du Radjah - Claude Ascain

# 85 Le fantôme noir - Claude Ascain

# 88 L’énigme du pavillon de chasse - A. Clouet

# 107 La Belle Affaire - A. Clouet

# 109 Mort au téléphone - Claude Ascain

# 111 L’énigme des poignards - René Virard

[Claude Ascain & Jean Daye are pen-names of Henri Musnik, who wrote circa 1/3 of the series. When Musnik signed Jean Daye, the story was almost always a sport crime tale]

cover art: Géo Sogny [001-100], Calvo [101-112]

J.Ferenczi & Fils, Editeurs < Editions du Livre Moderne, 9 rue Antoine Chantin, Paris 14e

source:amsaklapper’s collection