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MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES IN POSTWAR AMERICA
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.

PULP CULTURE: The Art of Fiction Magazines
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!

PULP ART MASTERS: Belarski
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.

PULP ART
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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