Paperback book modifications

Here's my first pulp paperback book modification. The original was "The Strange Women" by Miriam Gardner (a pseudonym of Marion Zimmer Bradley).

Her Strange Husband

Excellent choice of cover! Undetectable re-lettering too. I'm jealous.

I don't know which of the two women you saw as the husband, but the brunette in the foreground looks as if she's adjusting her wig...

Thank you for your comments Andi.

Excellent choice of cover!

I'm going to grab the best cover that I've found so far for my first paperback mod, of course. ;-)


Undetectable re-lettering too.

I couldn't find a condensed sans serif font that matched the font on the original cover, so I ended up taking a regular font and scrunching it up. ;-)


the brunette...looks as if she's adjusting her wig...

That is exactly what I was thinking! [It's one of the reasons that I picked that cover to modify.] And of course the main character should be in the foreground.

Here's a favorite TG theme: fraternity pledges who have to cross-dress. The original was Dormitory Women by R.V. Cassill, Lion 216 1954.

This year's freshman pledges.

This time it's "Strange Sisters" morphed into "Strange Brothers". ;-)

The original is Strange Sisters by Robert Turner, Beacon B526F 1962.

A torrid tale...

Here's my first real contribution. If you're interested, the original is here.

An early Janet Stickney, perhaps?

Lisha:

You did a very nice job with the new title--especially considering that the paperback that was used for the scan was pretty beat up.

I also enjoyed looking at the blog that you used for the source image. They have lots of large images of paperbacks, plus the reviews of the books are usually pretty informative.

I'm finding that it's fun to do the paperback modifications, although they require a little different approach than comic book modifications.

I decided to have a little fun with the title for my latest mod (although alliteration doesn't seem to be very common in pulp paperbacks). The original is "The Free Love Virgin" by Randy Salem ([pseudonym of Pat Perdue), Brandon House 909, 1964.

When their dress-up games turned serious...

Here's another married couple with a TG husband. For my first married couple, "Her Strange Husband", I imagined him as still being a crossdresser, although probably approaching full-time on weekends, evenings, and whenever he could get away with it. This husband has taken it further than that. [Although the cover doesn't say, I imagined the couple in "Boobies for Bobbie" as boyfriend and girlfriend, although probably living together.]

The original is Bitter Wench by Lupo Sebreng, Emerald Reader ER103, 1964.

His new assets were getting harder to hide!

Very nicely done, like all of these. I'm assuming you're generating new text as opposed to just moving stuff around like I do, in which case your choice of fonts is perfect.

I'm assuming you're generating new text as opposed to just moving stuff around like I do

I'd never have the patience to do large amounts of cut & paste work like you've done. I don't know how you do it.

For many of my comic book modifications, if the original text is pretty crappy (which is almost universal for small text, like issue numbers, prices, etc.), I'll erase and completely rebuild the text.


...your choice of fonts is perfect.

Thank you, BobH.

In most cases, I try to use the original fonts as inspiration. That's pretty easy when using different weights of Garamond or Futura come 'close enough'. It's harder when it's something like the headline font used for the "Strange Sisters" cover. Luckily, I have a HUGE collection of fonts on my computer to select from.

[Actually, I've got too many fonts. The last time I tried to add some more comic book fonts I got an error message and had to delete some fonts. Did I really need five different clones of Palatino, all added by different graphics programs?]

I love the Redheaded Husband - evidently he must have taken inspiration from his wife, who's obviously had work done to get the "breasts larger than the head" syndrome more common to bad 1990s comics....

Yet another no-recap-required!

My latest pairing is two brothers in "Sibling Rivalry".

The original is from the large cover art sample for Never Too Young by Don King, Crescent 107, 1966, on the Vintage Sleaze website. The artists were John & Elaine Duillo (who also did some of the Conan the Barbarian covers for Lancer Books).

Why was Eric turning into Erica?

...who's obviously had work done to get the "breasts larger than the head" syndrome more common to bad 1990s comics....

Considering the period the book is from, I think the physique of the brunette in the background may have been inspired by the art of Bill Ward (who probably inspired more than one 90s comic book artist to create overly-endowed, gravity-defying super heroines and super villians).

For example:

Bill Ward color pin-up