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Pulp Pin-Up

Published February 28, 2021 Updated August 14, 2024

Classic 1940s Pulp Pin-Up covers on playing cards from China, c.2010.

2010 China Detective Fantasy Pin-up Sci-Fi

Covers of old 1940s police and private detective story books, for lovers of adventure, science fiction, horror and fantasy. Titles include Tomb of the Living, The Gun Talks, Keyhole Peeper, Lethal Lover, Men Must Die, Murder in Red, The Lady is a Witch, Despairing Bride, Hooded Death and many other true stories! See the Box

Classic Pulp Pin-Up playing cards from China, c.2010 Classic Pulp Pin-Up playing cards from China, c.2010 Classic Pulp Pin-Up playing cards from China, c.2010 Classic Pulp Pin-Up playing cards from China, c.2010 Classic Pulp Pin-Up playing cards from China, c.2010 Classic Pulp Pin-Up playing cards from China, c.2010 Classic Pulp Pin-Up playing cards from China, c.2010

Above: Classic Pulp Pin-Up playing cards from China. No date but 2010s I believe. 52 cards plus 2 different jokers.

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By Rex Pitts (1940-2021)

Member since January 30, 2009

Rex's main interest was in card games, because, he said, they were cheap and easy to get hold of in his early days of collecting. He is well known for his extensive knowledge of Pepys games and his book is on the bookshelves of many.

His other interest was non-standard playing cards. He also had collections of sheet music, music CDs, models of London buses, London Transport timetables and maps and other objects that intrigued him.

Rex had a chequered career at school. He was expelled twice, on one occasion for smoking! Despite this he trained as a radio engineer and worked for the BBC in the World Service.

Later he moved into sales and worked for a firm that made all kinds of packaging, a job he enjoyed until his retirement. He became an expert on boxes and would always investigate those that held his cards. He could always recognize a box made for Pepys, which were the same as those of Alf Cooke’s Universal Playing Card Company, who printed the card games. This interest changed into an ability to make and mend boxes, which he did with great dexterity. He loved this kind of handicraft work.

His dexterity of hand and eye soon led to his making card games of his own design. He spent hours and hours carefully cutting them out and colouring them by hand.


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