Ernest Chiriaka - April 1953 Esquire Magazine Calendar Illustration - American Pin-up Calendar Collection
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Illustration by one of my favorite paperback artists Ernest Chiriacka, who would alternate the spelling of his name, sometimes under Chiriaka and sometimes simply under the moniker Darcy.
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Blonde Bait by Stephen Marlowe
Avon Books T330, 1959
Cover by Ernest "Darcy" Chiriacka
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Steamy Saturday
"Could a woman cure this man's warped desires?" Apparently not. Ray, handsome and muscular, always thought of himself as a typical heterosexual fellow until he becomes wracked by guilt after being seduced by the randy New York sophisticate Bruce Carton. It was easy and Bruce paid well, but was Ray truly gay? He tries to find redemption as the paid consort for the wealthy Amelia, but to little avail. Desperately, he reverts to sexually assaulting Emily, an aspiring actress. The despicable act only deepens his self-loathing. What to do? Well, if you can't beat 'em. . . . In the end "Ray recognized himself as a no-good bastard. But he didn't care, and he knew now that he never would."
There's much steam, not all of it good, in Ben Travis's 1959 pulp novel The Stange Ones, published in New York as a Beacon Book, an imprint of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp. Beacon Books included Universal's line of queer pulp fiction. Although The Strange One's is often mentioned in the history of early gay pulps, we could not turn up any information on its author, Ben Travis (a pseudonym, no doubt). However, the provocative cover art of a tortured man turning away in despair from a sultry, raven-haired seductress is by the prolific and highly successful pulp-cover artist Ernest "Darcy" Chiriacka (1913-2010).
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Hired Lover by Fred Martin, 1959.
Art by Ernest Chiracka.
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The signs as Ernest Chiriacka pinups
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces
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FORGOTTEN MIDCENTURY COMMERCIAL ARTISTS: Ernest Chiriarcka.
https://www.pulpartists.com/Chiriacka.html
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Dime Western Magazine - December 1946 // Cover by Ernest Chiriacka
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Ernest Chiriaka - February 1954 Esquire Magazine Calendar Illustration - American Pin-up Calendar Collection
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"Talk of the Town"
From the original by Ernest "Darcy" Chiriacka
As sourced here:
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Explosive Situation by Ernest "Darcy" Chiriacka, 1945
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book cover - Shameless - 1958 (and 1959 British book cover The Road To Buenos Ayres)
Ernest Chiriacka
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