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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