When The Quest For Knowledge Goes Wrong: The Terrifying Mad Scientists Of The Pulp Era


by Henry Fox

Where would be without science?  We would have less mad scientists and Halloween would be much less interesting!  The pulp ere was full of men and women of science who had been driven crazy by the search for knowledge.  Today, we pay tribute to the terrifying scientists of the pulp era!

by David Berger

by Frank R. Paul

by George Menendez Rae

by Herman Bischoff

by John Doolin

by Rafael DeSoto

by Rafael DeSoto

by Ralph Joiner

by Robert Fuqua

by Sol Immerman

by Graves Gladney

Artist Profile: Graves Gladney (1907–1976)


A resident of St. Louis, Graves Gladney was an illustrator who painted covers for several pulp magazines.  He is best known for his exciting work for The Shadow, painting every cover from 1939 to 1941.  Gladney also served in the airborne infantry during World War II, landing at Normandy.  At the time of his death, he was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

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