Women in Crime

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Dazzling Erin

Instead of featuring one artist for today’s artist profile, I’m instead featuring a magazine. Women in Crime was a pulp magazine that was published in the 1940s and the 1950s. While the covers, with their emphasis on lingerie and cleavage, were obviously designed to appeal to men, I like that they often feature strong women who know what they want and, whether it means using their looks or a gun, aren’t afraid to go after it. Check a few of them out below:

By Fred Charles Rodewald

By George Gross

Unknown Artist

Artist Profile: George Gross (1909 — 2003)

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Dazzling Erin

New York-based artist George Gross got his start working for the pulp magazines in the 1940s and he was a prolific and in-demand artist for the next four decades. Along with painting covers for Action Stories, Detective Book Magazine, Jungle Stories and countless other magazines, Gross also painted covers for the popular Avenger and Nick Carter paperback series.