The greatest sleaze titles of all time? My all time favorite has always been "Sea-Going She-Sluts", a nautical themed adult book that I have in my collection. Another title I have always been fond of was William Ard's "Don't Come Crying to Me" (Popular Library 639). Yes, I realize that it's not exactly a sleaze title, but what the hey, I like it.
Musings on my favorite sleaze publishers. (In no particular order.)
1. Nitime Swapbooks. (Later in the run's history they were changed to Nitime Storybooks.) Ah, the bizarre titles and Robert Bonfils cover art; what more could you ask for?
2. Novelbooks. Strange and elusive. I have been trying to assemble the entire run for years and am still only about 90% of the way into them.
3. Merit Books. No, not those idiotic digests from the early Fifties. I'm referring to the ones that were published by Camerarts, just like Novelbooks.
4. Raptures. At least some of these were published by PEC and are found in both the "tall" and "squat" formats. Colorful cover art and very odd themes, if you ask me.
5. All-Stars. (Related to Private Edition books.) Totally runs the gamut of oddball subject matter.
6. Chariots. Damn. I love those things...
7. Aquarius 7. Hokey photo covers. Not to be confused with their baby brothers, Bedroom Books.
8. Saber and Saber/Tropic. Really, the higher number Sabers are the best (and scarcest) but all the Tropics are cool.
9. Bedside. The only ones I don't like are those squat format ones with that hideous cover art. (#s 1225 to 1250---approximately.)
10. Dansk Blue Books. Pretty cool with weird titles.
All in all, I really admit to liking most sleaze/adult paperbacks. Ones I never care to see again (but will, undoubtedly) are that lame-o Scorpian book called "Wild Spree" or that Uptown entitled "He Kissed Her There". Those are possibly the most common books since Pat Boone's "Twixt Twelve and Twenty"!
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