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Today in pulp I head back over half a century... to 1971!

Spoilers: it's a strange time. ImageImage
The Long Goodbye, and The Lady In The Lake by Raymond Chandler. Ballantine Books, 1971. Cover by Tom Adams. ImageImage
Moonferns and Starsongs, and Son Of Man by Robert Silverberg. Ballantine, 1971. Covers by Gene Szafran. ImageImage
Manwich: "bewitches all men." (1971) ImageImage
The World's Biggest Glutton: a 1971 illustration by Gōjin Ishihara. Image
Quaaludes (1971). "Side effects have been mild, transient... and statistically insignificant." Image
Captain Consumerism! Prokon, by Peter Haars. Pax Forlag, 1971. ImageImageImageImage
Bruce Pennington's cover art for The Canopy of Time, by Brian Aldiss (NEL, 1971) and Space, Time and Nathaniel by Brian Aldiss (NEL, 1971). ImageImage
Girls' Romances, January and April 1971. Covers by Nick Cardy. ImageImage
The Coxeman series by Troy Conway (aka Michael Avallone). Paperback Library, 1971. ImageImageImageImage

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