Norman Saunders cover, below, will have its day in Eyegiene: Permutations of Subjectivity in the Televisual Age of Sex and Race. Saunders' clever semiotic deconstruction (the pinup woman, object of the magazine purchaser's eye, is, herself, a camera operator, her cutting edge film camera--for then--more prominent in a way than either her shadowy pursuer or her own naked torso) signals a pre-post-structuralist understanding of the technology / representation / subjectivity matrix. The image, contemporary with Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (actually Benjamin's opus comes out a year previous) augurs ideas that will see full development in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.
- Saucy Detective Stories [v1 #5, August 1937] (25¢, 1-96+65b-128b, pulp, cover by Norman Saunders)
- Title page reads Saucy Stories. Details taken from a scan of a (partial) Table of Contents, supplemented by information from Nichole Rounds.
- 2 · Saucy Stories and the Editor · [The Editor] · ed
- 4 · Torsos and Bullets · Frank E. Marks · ts
- 18 · Murder Body · Walter Bronson · ts
- 24 · Lips of Death · Cliff Everard · ts
- 36 · Newsreel Wench · Stephen Storm · ts
- 44 · Wedding Night · Will Gibson · ts
- 60 · Reward for a Lady · Lars Anderson · ts
- 78 · Lingerie Murders · Jeff Anderson · ts
- 65b · Daring Daylight Bank Robbery · Anon. · ts
- 76b · Sex Fiends Have Shocked Chicago · Anon. · ts
- 86b · Girl Blown Apart by Dynamite · Anon. · ts
- 94b · Holiday for a Corpse · Stephen De Beers · ts
- Cadavers Left Around · Paul Haggard · na (r); listed on the cover of magazine, but not in the Table of Contents.
{source: William G. Contento's Homeville Fiction Magazine, main: http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ ||| specific issue info: index: http://www.philsp.com/homeville/cfi/t650.htm#A13253}
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