The Covers of Mammoth Detective

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Dazzling Erin

33 issues of Mammoth Detective were published between 1942 and 1947 and they all lived up to their name. Initially, an average issue of Mammoth Detective was 322 pages long but eventually, it was reduced down to 178 pages. That was still too many pages for the magazine survive the paper shortages of World War II.

Mammoth Detective cover artists included Robert Gibson Jones, Harold McCauley, and James Axelrod. Check out some samples of their work below:

Unknown Artist

by Robert Gibson Jones

by James Axlerod

by Harold McCauley

Art Profile: The Covers of Fantastic Adventures

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

Fantastic Adventures was an extremely successful and influential pulp magazine that was published from 1939 to 1953. They published a combination of fantasy, horror, and adventure, all distinguished by a more light-hearted approach than some of the other pulp magazines of the era.

Even better, Fantastic Adventures was one of the few pulp magazines to give proper credit to its cover artists:

by Harold W. McCauley

by Ed Valigursky

by Raymond Naylor

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Stockton Mulford

by Harold W. McCauley

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Rod Ruth

by Walter Parke

by Arnold Kohn

Artist Profile: Harold W. McCauley (1913–1977)

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Dazzling Erin

A Chicago native, Harold McCauley trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the American Academy of Art. From 1939 until 1942, he worked at Haddon Sundbloom’s busy Chicago art studio and posed for the original painting of the Quaker Oats Man. Starting in 1946, McCauley worked as a staff artist for the Ziff-Davis publishing house and painted over a hundred covers for magazines like Amazing, Fantastic Adventures, and Mammoth Detective. Duringthe early 1960s, he also painted several covers for Nightstand Library.