James Reasoner has written about the German pulp series (or Romanhäfte, as the actual term is) in his blog here and here (and here). Just today a friend of mine posted this on Facebook: the 1979 cover for George Nader's science fiction novel Chrome that's about the gay robots of the future! (Or some such, I'm not actually quite sure.) The cover is, shall we say, weirdish - and not very erotic.
And just what does this have to do with Jerry Cotton, you ask. Well, George Nader was the guy who played Jerry Cotton in the German-financed and German-directed movies in the sixties and seventies. I once tried to watch one, but couldn't get very far.
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Good Lord! I never heard of that book. (I'm not surprised that I haven't.)
Seems like it's from a bigger publisher. Is that a Jove book? Nader seems to have been homosexual himself, there's more stuff about this in the Wikipedia article. (This might explain why he never rose to bigger parts in Hollywood. Well, then again, there were Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift and dozens of others. Maybe he couldn't act.)
Jove had a real knack for hideous covers.
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