Author Topic: Pulp Magazines - cover art - show us yours (Read 36013 times)

50s · « **on:** December 01, 2015, 02:41:05 AM »

A while back I branched out into a few new collecting areas and one was Pulp Magazines. I liked the cover art on them.

I am interested to see any pulp magazines in your possession for which you particularily like the front cover art.

Here are a couple of mine to get the ball rolling...

Aug, 1957

Jan, 1952

Mirosae · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2015, 03:22:40 AM »

I can see the appeal ... They are very colourful

50s · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2015, 03:31:40 AM »

Quote from: Mirosae on December 01, 2015, 03:22:40 AM

I can see the appeal ... They are very colourful

Yeah, I just collect on the colours... not sure why so many women on those covers though

... I trawled the archive for pulps without women and found just a solitary pulp at the bottom of the pile:

Jan, 1940

Mirosae · « **Reply #3 on:** December 01, 2015, 03:37:14 AM »

Wow.. Steve...seriously, this one is wonderful. Great artwork. I want one too! Hehe

Ps, Veruka calling

erik1925 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 01, 2015, 12:37:10 PM »

Quote from: 50s on December 01, 2015, 02:41:05 AM

A while back I branched out into a few new collecting areas and one was Pulp Magazines. I liked the cover art on them.

I am interested to see any pulp magazines in your possession for which you particularily like the front cover art.

Here are a couple of mine to get the ball rolling...

Aug, 1957

Jan, 1952

These are great, Steve.

What size are the mags?

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #5 on:** December 01, 2015, 02:59:00 PM »

Quote from: erik1925 on December 01, 2015, 12:37:10 PM

These are great, Steve.

What size are the mags?

he's showing 2 sizes. post 1950 material is almost all digest size, others are comic book size.

if you folks want to see lots of covers, even though small.
check out my image sales site
http://www.graffixmultimedia.com/

when you click through to see galleries, you land here
http://www.graffixmultimedia.com/lists/pulps.htm

50s · « **Reply #6 on:** December 01, 2015, 08:19:03 PM »

Quote from: erik1925 on December 01, 2015, 12:37:10 PM

These are great, Steve.

What size are the mags?

Thanks Jeff.

The sizes are:
Jan, 1940. 17.4cm x 25cm
Jan, 1952 21.5cm x 29cm
Aug, 1957 not sure... my size data appears wrong for this one

50s · « **Reply #7 on:** December 01, 2015, 08:25:46 PM »

Here are a couple more:

I like the title!
Aug, 1952

Winter, 1946

erik1925 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 02, 2015, 01:19:26 AM »

These are all awesome, Steve. Another look into the "pulp world" back then.

What great, almost pinup kind of art, too.

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #9 on:** December 02, 2015, 02:10:43 PM »

Quote from: 50s on December 01, 2015, 08:19:03 PM

Aug, 1957 not sure... my size data appears wrong for this one

this is definitely a digest size pulp

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #10 on:** December 02, 2015, 02:20:05 PM »

here are some cool ones

I should note that you are really into one of my expert areas now. I need to find images of pulp cover paintings I have sold
I used to own Finlays, Hannes Bok, Brundage, Shadow covers and much more..

Spider with cover art by John Newton Howitt

Shadow by George Rozen

Virgil Finlay

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #11 on:** December 02, 2015, 02:22:51 PM »

one of the most notorious paper back digests
my copy, the photo doesn't show how NM this copy is

Frederic Brown's classic hop head paperback

Lester Dent was the author of Doc Savage pulps under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson (others also used the pseudonym)

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #12 on:** December 02, 2015, 02:23:41 PM »

Planet pulp #1

cover by Margaret Brundage

erik1925 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 02, 2015, 02:25:34 PM »

These are GREAT, Rich.

Love the pulp art.

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #14 on:** December 02, 2015, 02:27:05 PM »

I need to hook up my master pulp scans drive. I have the best stuff on that

50s · « **Reply #15 on:** December 02, 2015, 02:28:39 PM »

Thanks Rich. Those 10 cent mags must be old. I've been tempted to get some Shadow mags

brude · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2015, 03:31:17 AM »

I used to have hundreds of pulps, now maybe only 20-30.
I try and post one pulp cover per day on my blog as I never get tired of the images.

Walter Baumhofer's run on Doc Savage was one of my favorites.

Artist Allen Anderson had a thing for space girls (and who didn't back then, eh?)

Norman Saunders cranked out an incredible body of work for decades, this one having two of my favorite bodies...

Graves Gladney (what a name, eh?) did some exceptional work back then... this Shadow proves my point.

This Air War by Rudolph Belarski (1944) is a powerhouse.

I'll wrap up with one by HJ (Hugh Joseph) Ward, whose covers were a bit disturbing. I've read that in later years, Ward was so ashamed of what he perceived as the misogynistic nature of many of his early horror covers, that he had a bonfire of the original canvases. Maybe Bruce, Grey or Rich can confirm?

Here's a link to several hundred other images (most of them the largest HD scans on the internet) set to infinite scroll (so there's no page turning). Sprinkled amongst the covers are a collection of fine BW interior art, too. There are also hashtags for individual artists, so you can make a day of it.
http://brudesworld.tumblr.com/tagged/pulp

50s · « **Reply #17 on:** December 17, 2015, 03:57:23 AM »

Thanks for sharing these Ted. Are those yours shown? That air war is great!

brude · « **Reply #18 on:** December 17, 2015, 06:06:43 PM »

I do own the Allen Anderson Planet Stories and the Norm Saunders Thrilling Detective.
At one point I had several boxes of them, but the older they get, the quicker they fall apart, so I sold most of them off.

50s · « **Reply #19 on:** December 17, 2015, 06:12:41 PM »

Nice looking art on those Ted

erik1925 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 21, 2016, 06:20:23 PM »

Ted, those are some great looking covers!

Each of those is so striking, and some are so intense.

And to think that Ward did (or may have) burned all those original canvases? Ugh..

(But perhaps it aint actually so?).

We can only hope and

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #21 on:** January 21, 2016, 07:14:01 PM »

I don't believe HJ Ward destroyed his paintings.. but John Newton Howitt did. he had a bonfire in his yard with them sometime in the 40s after he moved in more noteworthy publications and Coca Cola advertising

50s · « **Reply #22 on:** March 09, 2016, 08:34:10 PM »

A couple more:

Mirosae · « **Reply #23 on:** March 10, 2016, 03:18:52 AM »

Death has a poker face. Brilliant.

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #24 on:** March 10, 2016, 03:20:04 PM »

I'm photographing the 1500 pulps in stock so I can sell them at a paperback convention next month, so I may as well post some

I'm surprised no one has posted any cool back covers yet

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