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André Hélèna  J’aurai la peau de Salvador !

Editions Franco-Belges, 1949

Story of a Republican after the fall of Barcelona, marking the end of the Spanish Civil War. Having lost everything, Ruiz collaborates with smugglers, french escape networks (for refugees escaping the Occupation of France) and some allied secret agents who have a rather special face. But what motivates him is vengeance. He will have no rest until he has had the skin of Salvador, a Phalangist who took him the only woman to whom he really held.

Andre Helena was long ignored by the critics. He gained some fame only many years later and is now considered as a major author of the french  hard-boiled crime novel of the fifties. His work appears as a Human Comedy of the Underworld, of the gangsters, of the “Bas-Fonds”.

publisher: Editions Franco-Belges, Bois-Colombes (Seine), France

publishing director: Roger Dermée

Walter UNTERMEYER Jr. “Mauvaises passions”

Franco-belgian édition in french language of Evil Roots.(1954) - with its original cover.

Publisher: Universal Publications, Paris - Lille - Bruxelles

And then, in 1963, an abridged reissue signed William Ard

William Ard on the cover but marked William Untermeyer Jr. on the inside front page. Donne -moi cette femme was abridged of chapter 1 to 4 of Mauvaises passions

A common kind of handling for the publisher: collection Detective Pocket was edited by non other than André Guerber who’s become  legendary due to his numerous pulp/paperbacks swindles.

Publisher: Editions Baudelaire, 49 avenue Bosquet, Paris

Publishing director: André Guerber

Friand de science-fiction, j’ai souvent entendu parler de la série Orbital. Une série, visiblement reconnue dans le monde de la SF, donc je me devais de jeter un œil. Suis-je fan dorénavant ? Parlons-en 🙂 Continue reading Orbital (tome 1), une référence SF qui m’a laissé froid.

wierd angry article: Franco-belgian comics are EVIL, RACIST AND GAY and they should be BANNED from kids sections

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