#ernest ​chiriacka

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Illustration by one of my favorite paperback artists Ernest Chiriacka, who would alternate the spelling of his name, sometimes under Chiriaka and sometimes simply under the moniker Darcy.

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Ernest Chiriaka - July 1956 Esquire Magazine Desktop Calendar Illustration - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

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Cow Punchers by Ernest "Darcy" Chiriacka, 1978

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Ernest Chiriacka

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book cover - Shameless - 1958 (and 1959 British book cover The Road To Buenos Ayres)

Ernest Chiriacka

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Ernest Chiriacka

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Steamy Saturday

"Could a woman cure this man's warped desires?" Apparently not. Ray, handsome and muscular, always thought of himself as a typical heterosexual fellow until he becomes wracked by guilt after being seduced by the randy New York sophisticate Bruce Carton. It was easy and Bruce paid well, but was Ray truly gay? He tries to find redemption as the paid consort for the wealthy Amelia, but to little avail. Desperately, he reverts to sexually assaulting Emily, an aspiring actress. The despicable act only deepens his self-loathing. What to do? Well, if you can't beat 'em. . . . In the end "Ray recognized himself as a no-good bastard. But he didn't care, and he knew now that he never would."

There's much steam, not all of it good, in Ben Travis's 1959 pulp novel The Stange Ones, published in New York as a Beacon Book, an imprint of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp. Beacon Books included Universal's line of queer pulp fiction. Although The Strange One's is often mentioned in the history of early gay pulps, we could not turn up any information on its author, Ben Travis (a pseudonym, no doubt). However, the provocative cover art of a tortured man turning away in despair from a sultry, raven-haired seductress is by the prolific and highly successful pulp-cover artist Ernest "Darcy" Chiriacka (1913-2010).

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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE between these two covers—ostensibly the same edition, though possibly a different run?

answer below the cut

Is this real, or an illusion/accident of printing? Why did they do that?

the eyes

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The signs as Ernest Chiriacka pinups

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

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Hired Lover by Fred Martin, 1959.

Art by Ernest Chiracka.

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Ernest Chiriaka - "Roses are Red" - October 1954 Esquire Magazine Calendar Illustration - The American Pin-up Calendar Collection

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Blonde Bait by Stephen Marlowe Avon Books T330, 1959 Cover by Ernest "Darcy" Chiriacka

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Ernest Chiriaka

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interior illustration - Strangers In The House - circa 1953

Ernest Chiriacka

movie poster - House Of Wax - Apr 1953

artist unknown

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