<DIV><p>The lurid cover art of Mexican pulp novels are a pop culture revelation. Never before seen in an English- or even Spanish-language collection are the often surreal and psychedelic images of extraterrestrials, robots, dinosaurs, dastardly killers, Zorro, Santo, and many other icons from stories involving suspense, mystery, romance, and the supernatural. </p> <p>Collected by Minneapolis&rsquo; Bobbette Axelrod (owner of the Sister Fun toy shop) and Baltimore&rsquo;s Ted Frankel (proprietor of the American Visionary Art Museum&rsquo;s store, Sideshow), <I>Mexican Pulp Art </I>presents the most striking examples of this sensational art form of the 1960s and 1970s. </p> <p>Researcher Maria Cristina Tavera&rsquo;s introduction tells us about the original publishing companies, artists, and comic story lines of <I>Micro Legends, Micro Suspense, Micro Mystery, </I>and <I>The Unexpected. </I></p> <p> <I>Mexican Pulp Art </I>joins Feral House&rsquo;s award-winning collections of pop culture history &mdash;<I>Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties, It&rsquo;s A Man&rsquo;s World: Men&rsquo;s Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps, </I>and <I>Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin</I>&mdash;in rediscovering extraordinary forgotten worlds of visual splendor.</p></DIV>