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[vigilanteforce]

I am sure everybody here knows about this excellent book already but I thought it should have its own thread. Needless to say it is a must for any fan of the genre. Can't wait for vol.2!

More info:

BLAZING MAGNUMS
Volume 1

A COLLECTABLE TRIBUTE PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO THE ULTRA VIOLENT WORLD OF THE ITALIAN CRIME THRILLER - THE 'POLIZIESCO'

A LOOK AT THIS GENRE HAS BEEN LONG OVERDUE AND MIDNIGHT MEDIA IS PROUD TO PRESENT

THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLICATION DEDICATED TO THESE FILMS:

Movies covered in this first volume include: HIGH CRIME, MANHUNT, LIVE LIKE A COP DIE LIKE A MAN, CONVOY BUSTERS, MILAN CALIBRE 9, ALMOST HUMAN, BLAZING MAGNUMS, YOUNG VIOLENT DANGEROUS, THE BOSS, THE EXECUTORS, VIOLENT PROFESSIONALS, STUNT SQUAD, GAMBLING CITY, COLD SWEAT, RICO, THE SICILIAN CONNECTION, CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN, RISKING, THE MASTER TOUCH, CRIME BUSTERS, EMERGENCY SQUAD, DIRTY GANG, CROSS SHOT, FEAR IN THE CITY, KILLER COP and FROM THE POLICE... WITH THANKS - plus Profiles of FERNANDO DI LEO, MAURIZIO MERLI, SERGIO MARTINO, RAY LOVELOCK, STELVIO MASSI & LUC MERENDA

Written by Tristan Thompson and Designed and Edited by Paul J. Brown

with contributions from Troy Howarth, Jonny Redman & Lovely Jon

Full Colour throughout and lavishly illustrated with many rare images from these stylish action-packed movies - A5 format

[Fray G]

A great little book with lots of information and pics despite it's small size. I had to track down Ricco and Bloody Friday after reading the reviews in it. The Ricco review was by Jonny, right? Nice one man  A great review with plenty detail.
It's cool that it's got bio's for Di Leo, Merli, Martino,etc as well as the reviews, like i say lotsa info.

Is there gonna be a vol.2 ?

[Jonny]

Is there gonna be a vol.2 ?

Last I heard Tris said that vol.2 will be out late this year or early next year.

[Stephen Grimes]

Any idea of the set-up or contents Jonny?Will it be the same style as the last issue?

[Inspector Tanzi]

I lent a load of sleeves for the first one and was given 4 copies of it for my trouble.

[Kevin Coed]

I can't tell if you're annoyed or chuffed about that.

[vigilanteforce]

What about OUR book guys? I'd be proud to contribute to something like that!   

[Jonny]

What about OUR book guys? I'd be proud to contribute to something like that!   

I'm still thinking about it! I'm still picking up Crime on VHS for the sleeve art and even though nothing's been mentioned for ages it's still in my mind. Just been so busy over the summer.

[Stephen Grimes]

What about OUR book guys? I'd be proud to contribute to something like that!   

I'm still up for it and have plenty of materials ready with more coming in every other week,like Jonny i've been a bit busy as well but it's also still in my mind.

[Quatremain]

Well, this seems to be an interesting item, in particular because it's in full color.
How many pages does it have and what kind of approach was chosen to the movies?
Filmographic, academic, descriptive, impressive, critcial ...?

I tried the order link, but it doesn't work, unfortunately.

[Jonny]

I tried the order link, but it doesn't work, unfortunately.

Yeah, the main site is down for the moment. I'm having a bit of a tidy up, will be back soon. I have some copies left though, you can pick one up cheap via the link in my signature or PM me for details.

Haven't got a copy to hand at the moment so I can't tell you the page count. It's around 40/50 pages if I remember right. Loads of colour pictures of posters/VHS covers etc. Nicely written nothing to scholarly though.

[IL COMMISSARIO]

It's 44 pages including the front and back cover. Beautiful layout on this one and pretty much identical to the new Castellari booklet. Both are must haves.

[Quatremain]

It's 44 pages including the front and back cover. Beautiful layout on this one and pretty much identical to the new Castellari booklet. Both are must haves.

Sounds good. Just ordered it.

[Captain]

Just got it in the mail. Looks great!

[LANZETTA]

Managed to get a copy of this and Giallo Scrapbook from MrMedia on Ebay.

Both very nice to look at and hopefully the latter will lead me into buying a few giallo's which is virtually new territory to me.