The trials of Hank Janson (2023 edition)

Steve Holland

The trials of Hank Janson

Bear Alley Books

Wivenhoe, Essex, U.K.

320 pages, 2023

ISBN : 9798858392590

https://bearalleybooks.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-trials-of-hank-janson-new-edition.html

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part 1 : Prelude

     1. Learning life's lessons

     2. Looking for Miller's farm

     3. A glimpse of blue sky

     4. A holiday in Spain

     5. The Hank Janson treadmill

     6. Success story

Part 2 : The trials of Hank Janson

     7. Falling into temptation

     8. "Like life; maybe with a little extra flavouring"

     9. The Hank Janson blues

     10. Prosecution

     11. Accused

     12. The verdict

     13. The law stands fast

     14. The tide turns

Part 3 : Whatever happened to Hank Janson ?

     15. Situation  - Grave !

     16. A risky business

     17. "It takes time to build a millennium"

     18. Ghosts

     19. Close to the breadline

     20. The changing face

     21. "Ask all the questions you want"

Appendix 1 : The Hank Janson novels

Appendix 2 : Novels by Stephen Frances

Appendix 3 : Destruction orders issued against Hank Janson titles

Appendix 4 : Schedule of  successful prosecutions

Select bibliography

 

The art of Reginald Heade

Stephen James Walker

The art of Reginald Heade

Telos Publishing

Bromley, Kent, U.K.

168 pages, 2016

ISBN : 978-1-84583-115-8

Introduction

Hank Janson

Locker & Co

U.S. editions

Pulps round-up

Hardbacks

Girls and boys

Periodicals

Cy Webb

Is it Heade ?

Author's note

Reginald Heade : England's greatest artist

Steve Chibnall

Reginald Heade

England's greatest artist

Books Are Everything

Richmond, Kentucky

58 pages, 1991

no ISBN 

Sinful sisters 

Frails can be so tough

The demon of desire

One man in his time

Brief pleasure

This woman is death

Worrals goes afoot

Too many dames spell trouble

Curves cause trouble

The unseen assassin

Deal me out

Dames are no dice

In for life

Lady, toll the bell

Don't mourn me toots

Reginald Heade : a checklist 1939-1962

Covers as by Cy Webb

Magazine and library covers

Addendum

Acknowledgments

The trials of Hank Janson (2004 edition)

Steve Holland

The trials of Hank Janson

The true story behind the censorship

and banning of Hank Janson's books in the U.K.

Telos publishing

Tolworth, Surrey, U.K.

344 pages, 2004

ISBN : 1-903889-84-7

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part 1 : Prelude

1. Learning life's lessons

2. Looking for Miller's farm

3. A glimpse of blue sky

4. A holiday in Spain

5. The Hank Janson treadmill

6. Success story

Part 2 : The trials of Hank Janson

7. Falling into temptation

8. "Like life, maybe with a little extra flavouring"

9. The Hank Janson blues

10. Prosecution

11. Accused

12. The verdict

13. The law stands fast

14. The tide turns

Part 3 : Whatever happened to Hank Janson ?

15. Situation - Grave !

16. A risky business

17. "It takes time to build a Millennium"

18. Ghosts

19. Close to the breadline

20. "Ask all the questions you like"

Appendix 1 : The Hank Janson novels

Appendix 2 : Novels by Stephen Frances

Appendix 3 : Destruction orders issued against Hank Janson titles 1950-1953

Appendix 4 : Schedule of successful prosecutions 1935-1956

Bibliography

The trials of Hank Janson (1991 edition)

Steve Holland

The trials of Hank Janson

Books Are Everything

Richmond, Kentucky, U.S.A.

58 pages, 1991

no ISBN

Foreword

     by W.O.G. Lofts

Introduction

The trials of Hank Janson

1. Small beginnings

2. Reaping the whirlwind

3. The first trial of Hank Janson

4. The court of no-appeal

5. The second trial of Hank Janson

6. Alexander Moring and after

7. The end of Hank Janson

Notes

The Hank Janson novels

Acknowledgments and sources

The mushroom jungle

Steve Holland

The mushroom jungle

a history of postwar

paperback publishing

Zeon Books

Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire, U.K.

204 pages, 1993

ISBN : 1-874113-01-7

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction

1. Growing pains
2. The rise of the mushroom publishers
3. The new british pulps
4. The mushroom jungle
5. Riders of the range
6. "One and Sixpenny dreadfuls"
7. "The best of the tough gangsters writers"
8. The trials of Hank Janson
9. After the storm
10. Whatever happened to the mushroom publishers ?

Appendix : The horror comics campaign
Select bibliography
About the author
Index