#Dell Publishing

[downthetubes]

In Memoriam: Comic artist and Crypto comic pioneer, José Delbo

We're sorry to report the passing of Argentinian-born artist José Delbo, whose many credits from the 1960s onwards included Billy the Kid, The Beatles "Yellow Submarine", Wonder Woman, Transformers and Thundercats

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#Apollo Entertainment #Captain Planet and the Planeteers #Charlton Comics #Crypto Comics #Dell Publishing #downthetubes News #Gold Key Comics #José Delbo #Obituaries #The Beatles #Transformers #Wonder Woman

[comic-art-showcase]

Brenda Starr by Ramona Fradon(R.I.P.)

#ramona fradon #brenda starr #brenda starr reporter #four star publications #superior publishing #charlton comics #dell publishing #hermes press #romance comics #adventure comics #comic strips

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

Filling in for her pregnant friend Jenny, nurse Sarah Bennett takes a temporary stint as a flight attendant on a small Alaskan airline and a break from her boorish doctor fiancé, who for reasons even she doesn't understand, she thinks she's in love with. It's only her third day on the job, when -- "Oh, God!" -- the plane is hijacked by thuggish saboteurs and the passengers and crew are left stranded and ailing in the Alaskan wilds "with two dangerously ill passengers and one dangerously attractive pilot" (for a nurse, Sarah is a bit of a nervous Nelly and "Oh, God!" is her response to almost every situation that develops in the narrative). So begins Wings for Nurse Bennett by American romance-fiction writer Adeline McElfresh (1918-2015), published as a pulp paperback in New York by Dell Publishing Co. in 1960.

Despite her neurotic pessimism, Nurse Bennett manages to pull off some heroic medical feats, including delivering a baby (“Oh, God! Was the baby stillborn?" It's not.) and performing an emergency appendectomy ("Not appendicitis! Please, God, don’t let it be appendicitis.”) despite not being a doctor ("“What would they call it, practicing surgery without a license? Or—or criminal negligence?”). As one recent reviewer pleaded, "For crying out loud, someone get this woman a Xanax!"

All the while, she is assisted and swept off her feet by the attentive and "dangerously attractive" co-pilot Al Malcolm. In the end, everyone is saved, and I think we all know who Sarah Bennett ends up with, so much so that we don't mind showing you the last lines, which offers another version of what we in Special Collections call the vampire-like "eating of the nurse" (see the end of our previous post for context).

The cover illustration is by prolific American illustrator Tommy Shoemaker. At very first glance, we all thought that Nurse Bennett was gazing at a miniature model of a jet airplane (the "Wings for Nurse Bennett"?), but then we realized it was just a thermometer with the curve of her hair forming what looked like a cockpit. But then we wondered, why is she holding a hotdog in left hand, or is it a hotdog? You decide:

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#Steamy Saturday #romance fiction #romance novels #nurse romance fiction #nurse romance novels #nurses #pulp fiction #Wings for Nurse Bennett #Adeline McElfresh #Dell Publishing #cover art #Tommy Shoemaker #Thomas Shoemaker

[triviareads]

ARC Review of Match Me If You Can by Swati Hegde

Rating: 3.75/5 Heat Level: 2/5 Publication Date: June 4th

Premise:

A modernized Emma set in India; Jia Deshpande is a rich Mumbaikar who writes for a women's magazine. She wants to start her own matchmaking column, something she can achieve if she successfully sets two coworkers up. Jia goes ahead with the plan despite warnings from her best friend Jaiman Patil, who has long harbored feelings for her. 

My review:

This is a charming, effervescent take on Emma set among the upper classes of Mumbai. Jia aspires to be a matchmaker and secretly gives romantic advice on her blog in direct contrast to the content she puts out through the Cosmo-esque magazine she writes for. She's pragmatic about love while still being fairly naive, thus her mostly-unfounded confidence in her matchmaking abilities. Reading her deluded attempts at match-making office lothario Eeshan and village-transplant Charu was painfully entertaining in the best way. But like any well-written character inspired by Emma, Jia is so upbeat and (mostly) well-meaning, you can't help but root for her. 

The interesting thing about this book's Mr. Knightley, Jaiman, is that he has plenty of problems of his own. He's not just Emma's paternal, perpetually-chastising friend (though to be clear, I'm not saying this is a bad thing at all); he's the owner of a struggling bar who has never quite lived up to family expectations. There's also this culinary/career rivalry he has going on with the Frank Churchill of the story (a South Indian guy named Harish who comes up with a quite frankly FABULOUS restaurant concept: Vodka & Vada). Jaiman is also Jia’s childhood friend and hopelessly in love with her. The result is a (very) slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance. 

I actually really liked that Jaiman attempted an ill-fated kiss with Jia a year prior to the story beginning, and it ended with Jia crying about not wanting their relationship to change and she refuses to talk about it afterwards lolol. I thought it was a great place to start the story because Jia isn't entirely oblivious to Jaiman's feelings, and she privately admits she’s only ever felt attracted to him, so the tension is there. That being said, the author never really developed this tension or dragged it out as much as she could have. There are multiple instances where there's great set-up, like the time Jia puts on her dead mom's wedding lehenga and Jaiman walks in on her, and she asks him to unzip her. He does, but there's minimal touching or talking, and Jaiman just walks out within the next paragraph. I felt similarly about the time they dance together, as well as the entire mystery blog correspondent subplot. 

The sex:

There are a couple kisses, mostly near the end, and there is one closed-door sex scene.

Overall:

Overall, this book was humorous and light and I enjoyed it, though I wished the romance had developed more. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a frothy, diverse romcom!

Thank you to Random House Publishing Group and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

#netgalley #arc review #swati hegde #contemporary romance #arc #romance novel #random house publishing group #dell publishing #romance novels

[retrogirlsbooks]

Secret, Silent Screams by Joan Lowery Nixon

ISBN 0-440-20539-5

#1980s #1988 #dell publishing

[paperbackpurgatory]

Mary Higgins Clark's Where Are The Children? (1975)

The jaws of horror were closing on her again - and this time there was no escape

#paperback #paperback book #book cover #books #horror #horror book #paperback purgatory #pulp fiction #mary higgins clark #where are the children #dell publishing

[that-butch-archivist]

"Dyke March 1994" by Morgan Gwenwald

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

#lesbian #lesbian literature #dyke #dyke literature #archived #thatbutcharchivist #dyke march #dyke march 1994 #lesbian history #lesbian photography #author: beatrix gates #photographer: morgan gwenwald #the wild good #year: 1996 #publisher: anchor books #publisher: doubleday dell publishing group inc. #butch #butch dyke #butch lesbian #why does it look alright while i'm editing and then hitting the finished button is like unleashing an entirely different monster #ai yai yai #i'll figure it out #asian lesbian

[the-novel-approach-reviews]

Review: A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee

Title: A Shot in the Dark Author: Victoria Lee Publisher: Dell Length: 310 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance, Drama Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: I love that this book reads so deeply personal even though I wasn’t attuned to it in ways I’ve experienced personally. The empathetic bond Victoria Lee builds between her characters and the reader drew me into the story in all the right…

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#5 stars #Contemporary Romance #Dell Publishing #Drama #Judaism #Pansexual MC #Recovery #Spirituality #Substance Abuse #Trans Male MC #Victoria Lee

[rwpohl]

#illuminatus! #robert shea #robert a. wilson #dell publishing #new york #1975 #rowohlt #1999 #s. 142 - 147 #jfk #23 #sds #harry coin #nova police #werkzeugkasten der geschichte #material #jva #696 #books

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Once More With Feeling by Elissa Sussman #BookReview #AudiobookReview #Chicklit #ContemporaryRomance #Dell #RandomHouseAudio #BookBlogger

A former pop star finds herself back in the spotlight--along with an old flame from her past--in this "friends to lovers" meets "enemies to lovers" romance. #Oncemorewithfeeling #elissasussman #Bookreview #chicklit #dellbooks #Randomhouseaudio #romance

Then. Katee Rose is living the dream as America’s number one pop star, caught in a whirlwind of sold-out concerts, screaming fans, and constant tabloid coverage. Everyone wants to know everything about her and her boyfriend, Ryan LaNeve, the hottest member of adored boy band CrushZone. Katee loves to perform but hates the impossible demands of stardom. Maybe that’s why she finds herself in the…

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#Audiobook Review #Book Blogger #Book Review #Chick Lit #Contemporary Romance #Dell Publishing #Elissa Sussman #Funny You Should Ask #Once More With Feeling #Pop Star #Random House Audio #Rom Com #Romance

[goldkeycomics]

Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs reprint the bulk Gold Key's Star Trek publsihed between 1967-1976.

Golden Press, like Dell, is part of the long line of comics associated with Western Publishing Co., Inc.

#golden press #gold key #whitman comics #dell comics #western publishing company inc #star trek #tubby #little lulu #john stanley #alberto giolitti

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Richard Brautigan - Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt - Dell - 1974

#witches #rommels #occult #vintage #poetry #eighty-five poems #eight published #richard brautigan #rommel drives on deep into egypt #dell books #Beverly Allen #1974

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday 2

WIZARD OF OZ

On this date, August 15 in 1939, the movie The Wizard of Oz had its Hollywood premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California. The world premiere was five days earlier in, of all places, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Over the next two days it was test marketed in three locations, two of those were again in Wisconsin, Kenosha and Oconomowoc (the third location was Dennis, Massachusetts, another out-of-the-way location), before its ultimate Hollywood opening at Grauman’s on August 15. The movie’s nationwide release took place ten days later on August 25.

To celebrate this milestone, and our great state of Wisconsin’s place in the movie’s history, we present a few frames from our copy of the Dell Junior Treasury No. 5 comic book The Wizard of Oz, with an adaptation from L. Frank Baum’s story by Gaylord Du Bois, published by Dell Publishing in 1956.

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#Milestone Monday #milestones #The Wizard of Oz #movie premieres #Grauman's Chinese Theater #L. Frank Baum #Dell Junior Treasury No. 5 #Gaylord Du Bois #Dell Publishing #comic books #Wisconsin History

[daydreamerdrew]

The Funnies (1936) #7

#ooh ok so far the world that Scribbly has inhabited has been really charming and pure #like how Scribbly’s idol discovered him and then secretly sent him a drawing table and then took him on as an apprentice #in an way that’s like unrealistic but fun #I wonder if Scribbly’s experience with the newspaper people is gonna be like something more adult encroaching on that pure world #I don’t know how he’s gonna like the publisher’s idea here of a human interest peace that frames his previous life as tragic #also I haven’t said this before but Sheldon Mayer’s art style is so cute and fun #dell comics #scribbly #my posts #comic panels

[retrogirlsbooks]

Sport by Louise Fitzhugh

ISBN 0-440-48221-6

#dell publishing #1970s #1979

[lifeislikeawavewhorisesupanddown]

#book review #recensione libro #letteratura italiana #maria novella giorli #la fonte delle fate #Amazon kindle direct publishing #amazon KDP