Seventeen magazine brochure - How To Understand Astrology - Triangle Publications - 1970 (cover photograph by Ken Korah)
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Steamy Saturday
Juliette's husband Frederic is having an affair with her best friend Francoise, whom Juliette herself is attracted to. A threesome ensues, but when Francoise goes out on a singing tour, Juliette has an affair with Alain, another love interest of Francoise. Not surprisingly, Alain has a roving eye and Juliette calls it quits. Will Francoise forgive her? Will Frederic have her back? No spoilers here!
Steam just spews from this pulp classic, from its provocative cover to its complicated love triangle. The Dangerous Games by French romance writer Tereska Torrès (1920-2012) was originally published in French by Dial Press in 1957. We are showing the first English-language pulp version, translated by Torrès's second husband, American novelist Meyer Levin (1905-1981), published in Greenwich, Connecticut by Fawcett Publications in 1958. Apparently, the New York Times praised it as "told with taste and a great deal of dignity . . . The Dangerous Games is worth attention." Who's to argue with the New York Times (besides a certain ex-president)?
The Dangerous Games followed Torrès's 1950 bestseller Women's Barracks, the first U.S. paperback, also published by Fawcett, to become a bestseller, based on Torrès's experiences as a French resistance fighter during WWII. That novel included frank lesbian content and is credited as the first book published in America to candidly address lesbian relationships, spurring the growth of a new industry in lesbian pulp fiction.
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Serenoa concept art pt. 2!
Turns out I lied! I originally thought this was a page of discarded young Regna designs, but it seems to be a combo of Regna, Serenoa, and Roland instead. It looks like these were some of the really early drafts where they were still trying to work out some of the main details for each design.
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Seventeen/Guide to Fortune Telling, magazine booklet, n.17, Triangle Publications, 1968
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Fun Fact! In 2010, a group of little kids went to the movies to see Megamind for a birthday. However, instead of showing Megamind, the theatre accidentally showed Saw VII. They got through the entire Lawrence scene and up to the end of the Public Love Triangle scene before the theatre realized their mistake.
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