PULP MAGAZINES....Monsters...Murder....Mystery!

[bigbud]

Yea G. Edward, I know what you are saying. Plus the ladies of the house object to some of those covers. But us guys gotta have some fun.    Buddy

[G. Edwin Taylor]

Yea G. Edward, I know what you are saying. Plus the ladies of the house object to some of those covers. But us guys gotta have some fun.    Buddy

There will always be some objection which is good. It means it's doing its job!

[bigbud]

Ha! Here's a thread that hasn't surfaced for acouple years. The covers on old pulps are amazing. This is a Spicy Adventure Stories from March of 1937....This pulp is from the pedigree Kansas City Comic collection.....

[bigbud]

Loved it when the Shadow cover did something interesting with.....wait for it.......the shadows in the cover illustration....ha!

[jimm]

Those are awesome, great shape too.

[bigbud]

Thanks jimm...pulps are fun, but fragile...

[bigbud]

The women seem to always be getting the bad end of things on these pulp covers....deserving I'm sure....ha!

[Mord]

Yea G. Edward, I know what you are saying. Plus the ladies of the house object to some of those covers. But us guys gotta have some fun.    Buddy

Reminds me of Karloff's basement in "The Black Cat".

[Wicked Lester]

Nice mags Bud. That Real Mystery is a tough one to find. Weird Menace is my fave genre of pulp fiction. I have a fair amount of reprints.

WL

[bigbud]

Hi ya Wicked! Yep, the weirder the better, right? Mystery, detective, horror, even romance......the weirder the better!

[Mike Scott]

I love pulp art, too! That STARTLING MYSTERY is excellent! "The weirder the better" for me, too! 

[bigbud]

I think that Scatter posed with the Shadow for this  cover just after he had eaten the kids Halloween candy....while the little sweeties were sleeping no less! Ha!

[bigbud]

I love the face on this pulp...so sinister! Also a scan of the back of Mammoth Adventures #!........

[bigbud]

Doc Savage 1937 The Golden Peril. This very pulp got my pulp collection in gear many moons ago. I was walking around downtown LA on a weekend away from my military base and this pulp was on display in the front window of a small bookstore. I went inside....the guy had acouple more Docs and I spent some time thinking them over cause they weren't comics (which I was always into) and the condition wasn't as perfect as I usually wanted. But for as little as the guy wanted, I bought them all. He then says, "I was waiting to see if you were really interested or just a looker...come with me." Took me to the back storeroom where resided a large mound of old pulps. I was in dog heaven.....

[ChrisW]

I know this thread is more concerned with the pulp magazines from the 30s and 40s, but if you like men's adventure magazines, pick up a copy of... "Men's Adventure Magazines"! Published by TASCHEN,  it has a slew of cover images of magazines from the Rich Oberg collection. It is a heavy, thick book, chock full of illustrations. In fact, you can't take it in one, or even a few sittings. After a while I got tired of the "women in peril" images, and the "men in peril", and the "soldier in peril", and the...

Interesting, albiet limited text. Also interesting is that it's printed in English, German and French.

Very good reference book, highly recommended.

BTW, a pretty good book is "Pulp Art" by Robert Lesser. I've seen it in reduced price areas of book stores.

HepCat, I went through the thread and saw you mentioned the "Men's Adventure" book back in 2011! Funny tho, that the cover you display is different than the one that I have.