Men's "adventure" magazines first appeared
in great numbers after World War II and the Korean War.
Their stories often depicted brawny he-men protecting lustful
women from savages, wild animals, Nazis, or Communists.
Times may have changed, but a look through
the old men's adventure magazines sure brings back memories.
This hefty, comprehensive guide includes an in-depth introduction
describing the history, culture and artistry of men's adventure
magazines of the 1950s-70s.
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A comprehensive look at the art of the
pulps. Over 420 full-color covers are reproduced. This
value-priced hardback offers the most comprehensive look
at pulps ever done (and we've seen them all)--an overview
of all genres: menace, Western, romance, air, battle,
spicy, hero, etc. Robinson, who penned the entire text,
is a pulp veteran with several bestsellers to his name,
and known for his pristine condition collection, from
which the amazing 400 flawless covers were shot!
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This is the first in a series of works
centering around a specific pulp artist. Rudolph Belarski
(1900-1983) is considered by some "the perfect paperback
artist." His body of work is varied and prolific, and
his illustrations graced the covers of dozens of pulp
titles like Argosy, Aces, Wings, Jungle, Startling, Spicy
and Thrilling Adventures for many years. He went on to
become perhaps the most popular paperback cover artist
of the 1950s. In fact, many of his pulp covers were reused
on paperbacks.
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Original Cover Paintings for the Great
American Pulp Magazines. The first and only art book devoted
to paintings (all from original artwork!) from those wonderful,
lurid and colorful pulp magazines. Black Mask, Spicy,
The Shadow, Argosy, True Detective, Amazing Stories, Weird
Tales, Astounding Science Fiction--these were just a few
of the "pulps" that crowded the magazine racks from the
1920s until the '50s. An art genre all its own, the pulp
covers were a "highly colored circus in which everything
was pushed to the nth degree."
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