The Covers of All-American Fiction


All-American Fiction was a pulp digest that ran from 1937 to 1938.  It featured stories about America and the brave people who settled and protected it.  Unfortunately, it only ran for 8 hours before it was absorbed into Argosy Magazine.  The covers below give an idea of what All-American Fiction was all about.  A few of the covers were definitely done by Rudolph Berlaski but I’m not sure if he did all of them.  (It’s possible that he was responsible for all of them but some of the later 1938 cover don’t resemble his style.)  Belarski is credited for the covers that he is definitely known to have been responsible for.

November 1937, by Rudolph Belarski)

December, 1937, by Rudolph Belarski

January, 1938

February 1938, by Rudolph Belarski

March, 1938

May, 1938

July, 1938

September, 1938

September, 1938, by Rudolph Belarski

 

 

The Smashing Covers Of Smashing Detective Stories


Smashing Detective Stories was a pulp detective magazine that ran from 1951 to 1956.  It featured the the usual crime-smashing stories of detectives and criminals but what was really smashing about Smashing Detective Stories were the covers.  The covers were about as pulpy as you can get!

Below is a sampling of the covers of Smashing Detective Stories.  For all but one of them, the artist is unknown.  The cover for the September, 1954 issue has been attributed to Norman Saunders and it would not surprise me if he was responsible for at least some of the others as well.

March, 1951

June, 1951

December, 1951

September, 1952

March, 1953

June, 1953

1954, March

September, 1954, by Norman Saunders

December, 1954

November, 1955

January, 1956

May, 1956

July, 1956