
by Edmund Emshwiller
Happy Dinosaur Day!

by Edmund Emshwiller
Happy Dinosaur Day!
Jungle Comics ran from 1940 t0 1954 and was full of stories of jungle adventure. Many of them featured Kaanga, the jungle lord, who spent all of his time rescuing people from being sacrificed and eaten by wild animals. Today, Jungle Comics is remembered for its exciting covers. Below is just a small sampling of the covers of Jungle Comics!
Speed Detective was a crime pulp that was published for four years, from 1943 to 1947. Though many artists contributed covers for Speed Detective, all of the shocking covers below were illustrated by Hugh Joseph Ward.

by Rafael DeSoto
This is from 1942. There’s a lot happening on this cover.
Years before any whistleblowers testified at any Congressional hearings about crashed UFOS and “non-human remains,” the pulps told the world all that it needed to know about spaceships, aliens, and what lies beyond the Milky Way. Here’s a small sampling of the out of this world covers of the pulps (and one comic book that I included because I liked the cover)!

Artist Unknown
This is from 1953 and apparently deals with the dangers of letting friends cut your hair.

by Clark Hulings
This is from 1956. Everyone looks a little old to still be living in the sorority house.
Eyeful Magazine was a pin-up publication published from 1943 to 1955. Considered to be racy for its day, the magazine today seems tame if not exactly innocent. Compared to the sultry pin-ups that appeared in similar publications, the pin-ups in Eyeful were innocently flirtatious. The magazine’s covers announced that the magazine’s main goal was “Glorifying the American girl,” but, judging from the covers, it looks like the main theme was that you could do anything high heels. Though many artists contributed cover for Eyeful, all of the covers featured here were done by Peter Driben.
My favorite cover is the last one because the cow looks just as confused by the model’s reaction as the reader.