Cheap Thrills

Ron Goulart

Hermes Press, 2007 - Art - 208 pages

• Hermes Press is proud to announce the release of Ron Goulart's classic history of the pulps: Cheap Thrills. This book is more than just a reprint of Goulart's ground-breaking 1972 history of the pulps though. Hermes Press' complete redesigned version of this classic contains mountains of material not used in the original Amazing! Thrilling! Astonishing tome about the great pulps and pulp writers. Extra: the new edition of Cheap Thrills presents many remembrances by pulp fiction greats never before seen and not included in the original version of the book.
• Hermes Press is pulling out all of the stops with Cheap Thrills. The book is being printed in an all color 12" square fromat filled with pulp cover art that inspired readers, artists, and everyone who ever read the pulps.

About the author

Ron Goulart was born on January 13, 1933 in Berkeley, CA. Goulart has been a professional writer for over forty years and has published over 180 books. He is best-known for his mystery and science fiction books and is also considered the leading authority on comic books and strips. Goulart has been nominated twice for the Edgar Award. His first nomination was in the category of Best Original Paperback for his novel, After Things Fell Apart, in 1971. He was nominated again in 1989 in the category of Best Critical / Biographical work for his non-fiction work, The Dime Detectives. He also writes under the pseudonyms: Kenneth Robeson, Frank S. Shawn, Joseph Silva, and Con Steffanson.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cheap Thrills
• Author: Ron Goulart
• Publisher: Hermes Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1932563741, 9781932563740
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Art / Study & Teaching; Art / Techniques / Cartooning; Comics & Graphic Novels / General