We've sent you an email to confirm your subscription. These Covers Display ! Advanced Search. Lion Books Pan Books M39 Panther Books Signet Books #937, 1952. Why wouldn't we? United States | English (US) | $ (USD), remembering account, browser, and regional preferences, remembering privacy and security settings, personalized search, content, and recommendations, helping sellers understand their audience, showing relevant, targeted ads on and off Etsy. Both registration and sign in support using google and facebook accounts. Click on an image above to see its Pulp Product list, sorted by title, For Infants, Toddlers and Maternity T-Shirts. This entire issue can be downloaded here via. Armed with a .45 pistol, a syringe of knockout serum, and her... Cover of Startling Stories, September 1942. Log in to your Tumblr account to start posting to your blog. I've had better. Pulp cover artists recognized the American appetite for lurid and violent imagery, and the Wolfsonian is exploring the social issues embedded in their illustrations in a new exhibition. Here he's painted a nimbus around the head of his female figure. It's a cliché, but one we've noticed to be true, that the French tend to be polemical in their opinions about artistic matters. I don't know who the artist is, but it's now one of my favorite crime pulp covers ever! Dashiell Hammett, born today in 1894, found a home for a lot of his fiction in Black Mask, one of America’s great bygone pulp magazines. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. RECREATED AND RESTORED IN ITS NEW CONDITION AND FIRST TIME OFFERED, Checklist of Strange Detective Mysteries / Captain Satan, seattlemysterybooks: “otronmp3 February 1945 issue Seattle Mystery Bookshop ”, Nick Carter’s Danger Trail John A Coughlin cover, January 22 1927. Obviously the cover art was intentionally as lurid and enticing as possible to get you to part with your money and buy the “pulp” paperbacks that were named after the cheaply produced paper they were printed on. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds contains some terrific writing and a heap of great SF cover art. Even so, we did some deep digging and found a few items that may fit the bill. For instance, the 2015-16 Margin of Error included 1930s work safety postcards and accident insurance company posters among paintings and photographs. Using Photoshop, I then restore the cover to like new. You guessed it: black. In today's forecast there's a thirty percent chance of radioactive rain. Pulp was of course the opposite of literary fiction; most of the stories were poorly edited and grammatically questionable. campiness and great humor capture a wonderful slice of American cover art and provide a sampling of the skillful The story comes with extra credibility because Flora was a basketball coach before turning his talents to fiction.
He made his start as a freelancer painting covers and interior story illustrations for pulp magazines, and in fact kept up his work with periodicals well into the 1960s. of the Paperback Publishing Industry! You can read my story in full at the CrimeReads site here. Although I have not included any of this material in the images below, sharks were also a staple of popular tabloid magazines like Pix and Australasia Post. “I hear you like to work it inside,” or, “I hear you're a great penetrator,” and so forth.