The Cambodian blogger Jinja , from Webbed Feet, Web Log, made some interesting discovers in the pulp books universe. Then, as a nice guy does, he blogged the "Pulp Cambodia Novel Covers" through three posts: Uth Roeun, Hul Sophon and Em Satya. I think all the covers are from 1970's, with styles going from action with romance to historical novels and revolutionary themes. (via PCL)
A nice gallery with covers of all the numbers of Dime Mystery Magazine.
Dime Mystery (Book) Magazine started off as a fairly staid pulp under the name Dime Mystery Book Magazine featuring a full-length "two-dollar novel" and a few short stories. However this was not a successful formula and after only ten issues the publisher, Popular Publications, changed the title to Dime Mystery Magazine, featuring several novelettes and short stories. Even more significantly the emphasis was changed to "weird menace", which was much more popular and allowed the magazine to continue for a further 144 issues.n 1950 the name was changed again to 15 Mystery Stories, but it lasted for only five issues under this title before folding in late 1950.
The covers are fantastic: there are monsters, crazy scientists, women with knifes, strong men trying to run away, lots of women tied up, masked men, macabre sects, deformed men, scenes of torture, macabre experiments, skulls and mummies. All the elements you need in a thriller story. By they covers, my impression is their covers were made to also attract BDSM fetishists. (via coisas do arco da velha)
The classic sexy comic books' Vampirella had a Portuguese version: Zakarella, illustrated by Carlos Alberto Santos. On O Fantástico ilustrado por Carlos Alberto Santos (The fantastic illustrated by Carlos Alberto Santos), there are five covers of this Portuguese version and the original images of them (click on the covers to see them). According to the site in Portuguese:
The infernal (and sculptural) character, which gave the name to the magazine imagined by Roussado Pinto, was a kind of Vampirella with Portuguese manners, and because of lack of opportunities to great adventures, as the American version, she used to punish the troublemakers in Lisbon and its neighbourhood. Each number of Zakarella included a short story by Ross Pynn (pseudonym of Roussado Pinto) with the heroin adventures. The covers and the illustrations of those short stories were created by Carlos Alberto Santos, e good part of the success of this magazine is due to his work. (28 numbers / editions of Zakarella were published over two years)
I hope this so so, and almost literal, translation helps. The covers of the 28 editions published are available at Comics BD Portugal: just keep clicking on the tabs to see all them. BTW, those links are probably NSFW. (via coisas do arco da velha)
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There are some crazy users on Flickr, and crazy means crazy in the best possible way, who like to share vintage images. Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy likes to share "some" stuff: almost six thousand of images divided in 90 sets and counting. It's a paradise of 1940s and 1950s pictures, navy images from around the world, WWII images, pulp book covers, posters and more memorabilia. Among all those cool stuff, here are a list of suggestions (according to the posts of this blog). (via PCL LinkDump)
- British Posters from the Second World War: A selection of posters issued by various Government and non-Government bodies during the Second World War.
- Der Landser: with four hundred pictures taking during the WWII. Der Landser" was the name given to the ordinary German soldier in the Wehrmacht, and was used during both World Wars. The term is no longer used for German soldiers.
- Fruit & Vegetable Crate Labels: more than three hundred Examples of classic designs from the USA, Canada, Spain and Australia. I love this ad.
- Now read on . . . : Book jacket art. A hilarious collection with several pulp book covers.
- Posters from Occupied Netherlands - World War II. A selection mainly of Nazi and pro-German posters.
- Robert Doisneau: 65 pictures of this master of photography. He dismiss presentations, but just in case Robert Doisneau was a French photographer noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life.
- The Accordion and its role in world peace: 51 pictures of accordion players. Probably just for enthusiasts.
- The Saturday Evening Post: 18 beautiful covers of that classic American magazine.
- Transport & Travel Posters: 259 images of ads, pamphlets and posters.
- US Navy posters: mainly recruiting posters from World Wars I and II.
- Variety, Vaudeville & Circus Acts: Vintage photographs of performers and acts - from variety shows, vaudeville and burlesque shows, and circuses.
- Vintage Advertisements: 149 images of vintage magazine ads, from costumes to food.
- Vintage Advertising Posters: with 72 very pretty images, many of them are also on the "Transport and Travel Posters" set. The collection contains one of those vintage disturbing ads.
- Waves & Navy Nurse Corps Recruiting Posters - World War II, with fourteen posters.
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I never had a science fiction pulp book on my own hands, but in the last years I became an admirer of them, through several sites who kindly shared collections of those vintage books. EC Science Fiction Comics is one of those amusing sites. They have a nice collection of science fiction comic books released by EC Comics.
Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books specializing in crime fiction, horror fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the 1950s, until censorship pressures prompted it to concentrate on the seminal humor magazine Mad.
The collection is composed of four galleries: Explore the galleries of cover of Weird Fantasy, Weird Science, Incredible Science Fiction and Weird Science-Fantasy. (via SciFi Scanner)
More posts with sci-fi comic book covers: Life on Mars, The Science Fiction Art of H. W. McCauley,L'univers des Bédés Elvifrance, The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover art, Comics, pulp and sci-fi books, Scans of Eerie Publications and Star Trek Comics.
Before start clicking in any link of this post take a deep breath and relax. You should use a safe browser with pop-up blocker. Now you are ready to visit 70's Italian Pulp Art. The main page of the site has several banners as a way to pay the use of broadband, of course, and they can scare you. But if you are a pulp art fan try not to worry. I assure the site worth a visit, even having only small images. NSFW. (PCL LinkDump)
If you enjoy the images, visit the excellent and also NSFW blog The Groovy Age of Horror.
in Illustration, Pulp ||
Life on Mars: An Exhibit of Classic Science Fiction Magazine Covers and Interior Illustrations from the 1920s-1950s. Cool stuff, with a small, but nice, collection of covers and illustrations of pulp sci-fi magazines. They have tripods, green men, robots and other amazing creatures from beyond, all that a good cover of a pulp book about Mars should have.
When I was thinking I wouldn't find new covers of vintage pulp fiction books, one more time Flickr surprises me with a group devoted to it: Pulp Fiction. There aren't heat discussions - until now, but it fits my expectations for images. It has more than 900 images on the pool for now, with tons of fresh and new covers for me, from sci-fi to naughty covers.
Published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since October 10, 1952, the Italian magazine Urania is the longest life science fiction series published in Italy. The site Mondo Urania has an amazing collection with tons of Urania covers, resumes and and its spin-off series.
Some of the collections of series available there: Urania Argento - a monthly series started in 1995 with impressive covers by Oscar Chichoni; Urania Blu - four editions with Isaac Asimov's articles; Urania Fantasy - was a monthly series dedicated to fantasy titles; and Urania Collezione - started in 2003 and is still monthly outgoing.
Don't forget to check the first covers of original Urania, if you enjoy the classic pulp book covers.
First covers were by Carlo Jacono and Kurt Caesar, but the «golden era» of the magazine was marked by the renowned Dutch painter Karel Thole, who introduced his unparalleled, bizarre medley of surrealism, horror, classical citations and sense of humour. Other outstanding cover artists who worked for Urania were Vicente Segrelles from Spain (1988-1991) and Oscar Chichoni from Argentina (1990s). Current cover artist is Franco Brambilla.
The site Grimm's Hangar, the tales of pulp and glory, presents a great collection of vintage figures accompanied by cool scenarios by Grimm. But his number one theme is Pulp gaming. All those fun stuff is divided by themes, from the darkest Africa to the French-Indian War, passing through Vikings, Cthulhu and Pulp. And now you know why I'm posting this: thirteen galleries under the pulp theme, composing a tiny wonderful universe full of adventures. That's fine for me.
It's very easy win a link from Bibi's box: you just need to post pretty images of pin-ups. I won't be able to resist. I noticed my weakness some minutes ago, while I was having a very interesting conversation with my buttons about if I was going to post about Datajunkie's The Science Fiction Art of H. W. McCauley or not.
Harold W. McCauley painted dozens of covers for various science fiction magazines and drawn several hundred interior story illustrations. But before starting to work in this area, he already was a science fiction fan. It wasn't so hard to him joining the two passions. The clever artist also married with one of his beautiful models, as he said in the interview. The sample of five covers of Imaginative Tales and drawings to Other Worlds and Imagination show that probably he was telling the true.
in Illustration, Pin-ups, Pulp ||
There is never enough pulp books to post. That's why I would like to invite you to visit the pulp portion of PulpGen. The first reason to take a look there is the biography and bibliography of four pulp fiction author: J. U. Giesy which works appeared in a vast number of magazines included Weird Tales, The Munsey Magazine, Snappy Stories, Droll Stories, Adventure and The Household Magazine; Norvell Page, most known for his The Spider novels; E. Hoffmann Price, who contributed to Weird Tales, Argosy, Adventure and Short Stories among others; and Edmond Hamilton which stories appeared in the pulp magazines from the mid 1920's - 1950's, including Weird Tales, Amazing Stories and Startling Stories.
The second good reason: the characters' pages of Captain Future and The Griffon, with many cover images. And the last, and best, reason: downloadable e-texts of pulp stories. There are 295 stories on-line and 49 more in various states of readiness, from nearly every genre...detective, science fiction, adventure, romance, western, weird menace, sports, aviation, and even finance. All you need is a PDF reader and choose a story to start reading.
Last month Datajunkie made a very good Pulp-o-rama post with a collection of scanned covers of magazines like Great Science Fiction, Infinity Science Fiction, IF - Worlds of Science Fiction, Worlds of Tomorrow, The Original Science Fiction Stories, Satellite Science Fiction, Science Fiction Adventures, All-Time Greats Science Fiction Classics, Space Adventures, Thrilling Science Fiction and Spaceway. I think you already guessed the theme.
More reasons to take a look, in his words: Some cool work by Vaughan Bode, Alex Shomburg, Hannes Bok, Virgil Finlay, Jack Gaughan, Ed Emshwiller and more, including a bunch of those pretty shoddy reprints of Ziff-Davis material from the 70's that are fondly remembered... by me at least!
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The Foley Gallery shows that there is something even cooler than pulp fiction: the works of the American photographer Thomas Allen. He creates some incredible pulp fiction dioramas. (via Spy's Spice)
Allen gently cuts around the shape of his figures, physically releasing them from their two dimensional surface. They are brought to life from their pages and covers with detailed lighting and a thin focus. Pulled and positioned, their intended drama comes to life. In his newest body of work, Allen explores more detailed narratives involving love triangles and relationships accentuated with moments of voyeurism, homoeroticism, and unrequited love. The book set-ups are more complex and more naughty than previously presented. Multiple books act as separate characters interacting with each other to form relationships and stories about love and lust. In “Wish”, a demure and uncertain teenage girl appears in the foreground, displaying an expression of longing. Behind her, slightly out of focus, is an older couple entangled in a romantic encounter.
in Art, Photography, Photography, Pulp ||
Stop, You're Killing Me! is a resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books. Nearly 25,000 titles to discover by 2,100 authors and characters. It's a great site for reference of new pulp-book-a-like books, but it could be much better if it showed the book covers and not point everything to Amazon.
in Pulp ||
Some people don't know when to stop, like datajunkie that made a huge post with almost 100 covers of Perry Rhodan science fiction books, illustrated by Grey Morrow. Amazing work! But Perry Rhodan? Yes, Perry Rhodan, the world's most prolific literary science fiction (SF) series, published since 1961 in Germany. If you speak German take a look at the official site.
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Jaap van Deijk 's Pulp Art Palace: detective, science fiction, horror, mystery and "sleaze men magazines" pulp books.
On this and following pages you can find all kinds of Pulp Art. On every picture there are women, most of the time in lingerie. Most of the images are LIGHT EROTIC, but they all have in common that the pictures displayed here are of an era long gone. Only the memory of those times remains in these pictures.
Sorry guys, it's all safe for work.
in Pulp ||
Vintage pulp fiction there is a huge collection with hundreds of covers of pulp fiction books from the amazing MagazineArt, with a much more visual and interactive disposition of them. Just in case you didn't like the "coverpop" tool, try those galleries at MagazineArt: Rare Pulps - Action Stories, Adventure, All Around, Air Trails, Argosy, Black Aces, Black Mask, Blue Book, Breezy Stories, Cabaret Stories, College Stories, Saucy Movie Tales and many others; Adventure Pulps - Adventure magazine and Romance, The Adventure pulp; Science Fiction and Fantasy Pulps - Uncanny Tales; General Fiction Pulps - All-Story and Argosy; and Crime, Mystery, and Detective Pulps - Black Mask Magazine.
I wasn't planning make three posts about science fiction stuff, this just happened. So here it goes, from datajunkie: SF Pulp Eye Candy, a collection of covers of sci-fi pulp books, with seven covers of Startling Stories and others.
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A new year demands a new calendar, right? I did my last calendar, and the one before it, with the models of 12 sided calendar page. You can choose the language, the format to save to print (PDF or PostScript), when the week starts and if you want a regular dodecahedron model or a rhombic dodecahedron. Tip: print it in photographic paper, 100-120 g/m² as the site recommends, with a good quality. It will last much more - it lasted the whole year for me.
At PDF Pad there is a calendars session where you can customize your calendar: All month, year and perpetual calendars are ready for printing. Flickr Toys also has a very nic ne tool: the Calendar creates a customized calendar from your digital photographs.
And my last suggestion is a free downloadable 2007 calendar from the sci-fi site The Website at the End of the Universe, each month features a different bathing beauty from the future as illustrated on a vintage science fiction magazine cover. That means pin-ups from pulp book covers, like the ones that the dead site Babes in Space has. If you aren't happy enough with the images, try Science Fiction Paperback Covers to find nice images, like the ones in the gallery Sleaze Science Fiction Covers. (all via del.icio.us)
