Rader 1962
2 samples – SIN LENS
& PASSION TRAP $75. July 1962 (in Autumn 1961 listings).
Blond girl on hands and knees on bed facing reader – blue background
– stockings, slip & dress on bed – bare torso, pink panties.
Tuxedo 114 – SIN LENS by Koby,
1962. Tuxedo was not paying anywhere near Midwood’s $180. per cover. PASSION TRIP (not PASSION TRAP) is another Rader Tuxedo, but the
description below this notebook entry describes another book. I suspect Rader
omitted his entry for PASSION TRIP here.
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Tuxedo 113 – PASSION TRIP by Robinson, 1962.
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August 1961 – Sample – blond girl on bed – black slip down to thigh –
side view – dark pink background.
Chariot CB-1627 – INSATIABLE
DESIRE by Craig, 1963. Although listed with SIN LENS & PASSION TRAP, this
description matches a Chariot published two years later.
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Rader’s INSATIABLE DESIRE was recycled and
flipped for All Star 74, NIGHTS OF FORBIDDEN FRUIT, in 1967. Rader’s
signature is visible – backwards – in the corner left of her heel.
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September 1961 – Shorten – Lesbian cover. Dark haired nude standing
half behind red screen – blond sitting taking off stocking looking over her
left shoulder at nude.
Midwood F141 – LOVE LIKE A SHADOW by Kimberly Kemp (Gil
Fox), 1962.
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September 1961 – Shorten – Blond sitting cross-legged, hands on hips,
red sweater, pink background.
Midwood F145 – STRANGE DELIGHTS
by Beauchamp (Robert Silverberg), 1962.
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November 1961 – Shorten “The Little Black Book” – blond sitting in
partly open cookie coat – striped golden, tan background and open large black
book.
Midwood Y135 – THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK by Avallone, 1962. Reused in MAN'S Magazine, October 1969.
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October 1961 –
MacFadden – court scene, gun, redhead in blue.
TRUE DETECTIVE February 1962 cover.
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December 1961 – Midwood – “The Drifters”. Black haired girl in slip
and stockings sitting on edge of bed with bottle. Gold background, cigarettes
on floor.
Midwood F163 – THE DRIFTER by
Hastings (Sally Singer), 1962. The cigarettes Rader mentions in his notebook
are visible on the back cover version of the cover art. So is Rader’s
signature.
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Paul Rader’s cover art for THE DRIFTER was recycled for MAN’S in January 1968. It was used again, as shown here, as a color cover for GUY in April 1970. |
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January 1962 – TRUE
DETECTIVE cover – girl calling for help out of window.
TRUE DETCTIVE – April 1962 cover.
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December 1961 – Midwood – “Ripe” – Light brown haired girl lieing
(sic) in gay abandon on light green bed sheet with shadows – white area
across torso.
Midwood F164 – RIPE by
Richards, 1962.
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January 1962 – Midwood “Gay Scene”. Large blond in foreground, hands
in prayerful pose, small figure in background unhooking black bra – blue
purple background.
Midwood F169 – GAY SCENE by
Ellis, 1962. Rader has recycled the smaller figure from his illustration for
SEE Magazine, November 1960.
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March 1962 – Midwood “Tender Torment”. Lesbian Surrealist. Large back
view of nude holding rose – prostrate dressed girl in distance. $205.
Midwood F172 – TENDER TORMENT
by Randy Salem (Pat Perdue), 1962. Rader’s notebook tells us on March 15 he
made changes to three covers. This was one of the three, a see-through gown was added to Rader’s nude.
I love Rader’s description
“Lesbian Surrealist”. There is no blood on the cover art, just the suggestion
of it using blood-red roses and a shadow that billows out like a pool of
blood.
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February 1962 – Midwood “Prisoner of my Past”. Large half figure of
blond holding her breasts. Purple background. Transparent hands reaching for
her.
Midwood F180 - PRISONER OF MY PAST by Fisher, 1962.
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March 1962 – Midwood “
Chico
’s
Women”. Three women and ghost head of man.
Midwood Y179 –
CHICO
’S
WOMEN by Hastings (Sally Singer), 1962.
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March 1962 – Midwood “Soft Shoulders”. Legs with hands holding black
panties, peeping tom at window.
Midwood F181 – OPERATION: SEX
by Kemp (Gil Fox), 1962. The dark strip at top blocking our view has a window
shade drawstring hanging from it. We are looking in another window, exactly
like the peeping tom. We are voyeurs.
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April 1962 – Midwood “The Hottest Coed”. Couple kissing on campus at
twilight. Girl in orange sweater, grey skirt hiked up.
Midwood 182 – CAMPUS JUNGLE by
Ellis, 1962.
March 15, 1962. Midwood changes on Chico’s Women, Prisoner of my
Past, Tender Torment. $125. direct payment.
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Rader’s CAMPUS JUNGLE art was
recycled as AWAKE TO LOVE, All Star 138 in 1967. The coed’s sweater has been
unbuttoned.
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April 1962 – Midwood “Eve”. Blond taking dictation in black bra & panties, man in bed. Red purple background.
Midwood F185 – PASSIONATELY
YOURS, EVE by Gregory, 1962. That black bra is now missing.
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April 1962 – Midwood “Girl From Ave J”.
Dark haired girl standing and drinking martini. Yellow sweater, capri
pants – at bar.
Midwood F189 – SEX KITTEN by Avallone, 1962.
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April 1962 – Midwood “The Night is for Lust”. Large woman’s head
thrown back, hand on man’s head – mood tone, the woman’s head in light, the
remainder in half shade.
Midwood F190 – THE CRAVING by
Mayo (Gil Fox), 1962.
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Midwood’s sister company was
Tower Books, and Rader’s art for THE CRAVING reappears on a 1966 Tower called
CATHY’S WAY by Dan Brennan, Tower 43-748.
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June
1962 – Midwood “Lady Wrestler”. Long haired blond, hands on hips – tight dark
pink bathing suit, smoky background.
Midwood F193 – LADY WRESTLER by
Harvey
, 1962.
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June 1962 – Midwood “Name Your Vice”.
Tall redhead standing back to viewer holding red pants over arm,
covering her behind, facing sitting man drinking. Dark blue purple
background.
Midwood F192 – THE SEX GAME by
Skinner, 1962. Rader would recycle this for Bee-Line in September 1969. But
since it is one of the few second rights books listed by title in the
notebooks, I will show it there rather than here. See September 1969 below.
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June 1962 – Midwood – Large head of redheaded girl clutching man’s
hand to cheek – blue green shadows and background.
Midwood F200 – EASY by Swenson
(Richard E. Geis), 1962.
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June 1962 – Midwood –
Blond hooking black bra and looking at viewer over her shoulder.
Purple square behind her middle.
Midwood F202 – THE PLATINUM TRAP by Avallone, 1962.
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July 1962 – Midwood – “Birth of a Tramp”. Short haired blond over
man’s lap having fanny spanked.
Midwood F203 – BIRTH OF A TRAMP by Amy Harris, 1962.
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July 1962 – Midwood – “Garden (Thorn) of Evil”. Girl in bikini lying
on back, legs apart, near pool – old man looking through hedge.
Midwood F199 – THORN OF EVIL by Collier, 1962. This
painting was recycled for MAN’S Magazine in April 1968.
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July 1962 – Midwood “Touch Me Gently”
Long black hair, half nude standing & reading script which half
covers breasts – striped yellow background.
Midwood F212 – TOUCH ME GENTLY
by Harris, 1962.
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July 1962 – Midwood “Lap of Luxury”
Redhead on purple couch, arms folded over bare torso, blue
background, blue toreador pants. $230.
Midwood F214 – LAP OF LUXURY by Kemp (Gil Fox), 1962.
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July
1962 – Midwood “Overexposed”
Blond removing stocking – in black sheer panties against yellow
background – man’s head and camera at right behind dark door.
Midwood F207 – OVEREXPOSED by Hytes (John Plunkett), 1962.
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. July 1962 – Midwood “
Island
of
Sin
”
Moonlight tropical scene with girl removing clothes on left, man in
water.
Midwood F211 –
ISLAND OF SIN by Mayo (Gil Fox) 1962. |
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July 1962. Girl on
floor. $37.50.
I believe this is the cover of the November 1962 MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE .
$75. for 2 samples, SIN LENS & PASSION TRAP. (Shown above.)
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September 1962 – Midwood “Gutter Girl”
Young blond in yellow toreadors and knotted white shirt sitting on
knee of Italian boyfriend. Dark red cellar background.
Midwood F221 – YESTERDAY’S VIRGIN by Hytes (John
Plunkett), 1962.
August 1962 – sample
– Embrio $37.50
(not found)
Brigade – Oct – Second rights $18.75
(This is for reusing about one-fourth of Rader’s art for
“The Girl With the Love Cure” from SEE Magazine March 1960, for a story
called “Ricochet of Doom”, uncredited.)
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September 1962 – Midwood “Flight Into Sin”. Blond nude with white drape against torso –
running in forest – yellow-orange sky.
Midwood F220 - FLIGHT INTO SIN by Skinner, 1962.
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September 1962 – Midwood “Wayward Widow”. Redhead throwing arms around man – both
standing – blue dress around hips – white background.
Midwood F226 – WAYWARD WIDOW by
Beauchamp (Robert Silverberg), 1962.
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