#robert dansler

Zorro le Vengeur Masqué, 1950, art by Bob Dan (Robert Dansler), prepublished in L'intrépide in 1948-1949.

Collection Stick

French crime pulps collection. 20 issues between November 1940 and September 1942. Format 170 x 240 - 32 pages/2columns.

1. L’escalier de la mort, Marcel Allain 2. Une lettre... 3 morts, Robert Dansler 3. Le lit de l'épouvante, J.-P. Besson 4. Un mort sous clef, Charles Ronze 5. Le pyjama violet, Marcel Allain 6. L'énigme de la Maison noire, Herbert Michaël 7. Un mort au micro, Robert Dansler 8. Du sang sur un manège, Jean Stelli 9. Meutres en série, Charles Ronze 10. Un en trop... et deux en moins, Marcel Allain 11. Le Monstre de Saint-Basile, JP Besson 12. Mazoglou et Cie, R. Dansler 13. Le Rendez-vous de la mort, Ch. Ronze 14. L'Assassin?... C'est... , M. Allain 15. Le Crime de la villa des roses, Jack River 16. Le Speaker de la mort, JP Besson 17. La Mort frappe en montagne, M.L. Beucké 18. Le Mort n'est pas mort, M. Allain 19. Le moulin maudit, Maurice Limat  20. La poutre creuse, R. Dansler 

Robert Dansler appears here as a crime pulp writer - he is better wellknown as illustrator and cartoonist.

publisher: Agence Parisienne de Distribution (aka Editions Georges Ventillard), 8 rue du Croissant, Paris

MINUIT

continuation

French mystery novels collection. 24 titles between 1941 and 1948. Only french writers - even if a translator is mentioned, it is fake. The lack of american crime novels during the Occupation, conducted Georges Ventillard to chargeLouis Chavance to hire french writers. Mission: produce mystery/crime novels that would take place in the USA and sign them with an american name. No sooner said than done. Chavance recruted Léo Malet (Frank Harding, Léo Latimer),Maurice Nadeau (Joe Christmas), Louis Daquin (Lewis MacDackin) and others. Chavance himself signed Irving Ford. Most of them were begginers in the genre and most of them didn’t go further than Minuit. A couple of years later, the raw conditions were more or less overlooked and the usual pulp writers went in.

Among them, Edward Brooker, who also signed Linton Powell. Brooker was a main author for Georges Ventillard. In the 30′s, Brooker had his own collection at Ventillard and was presented as: “being the new Edgar Wallace”!....And well, it is not totally usurpated, though “Edgar Wallace on acid” would suit him better...Whatever, to read Brooker is always a lot of fun.

cover art: Robert Dansler

Publisher: Les Publications Georges Ventillard

Collection director: Louis Chavance

MINUIT

French mystery novels collection. 24 titles between 1941 and 1948. Only french writers - even if a translator is mentioned, it is fake. The lack of american crime novels during the Occupation, conducted Georges Ventillard to charge Louis Chavance to hire french writers. Mission: produce mystery/crime novels that would take place in the USA and sign them with an american name. No sooner said than done. Chavance recruted Léo Malet (Frank Harding), Maurice Nadeau (Joe Christmas), Louis Daquin (Lewis MacDackin) and others. Chavance himself signed Irving Ford. Most of them were begginers in the genre and most of them didn’t go further than Minuit. A couple of years later, the raw conditions were more or less overlooked and the usual pulp writers went in. 

cover art: Robert Dansler

Publisher: Les Publications Georges Ventillard

Collection director: Louis Chavance