Since the start of the pulp era, cults have been a popular subject. Usually dressed in red and concealing their faces behind hoods, cult members have menaced and frightened.
For this Halloween, here are some of the cults of the pulp era.
by Walter Baumhofer
by Arnold Kohn
by John Newton Howitt
by Rudolph Zirm
by Tom Lovell
by John Walter Scott
by George Hargis
by Harry Lemon Parkhurst
by Hugh Joseph Ward
by John Drew
by J. Allen St. John
by Hugh Joseph Ward
This cover is from 1940. Those are really nice boots!
by Hugh Joseph Ward
This cover is from 1942.
by Hugh Joseph Ward
From 1937 comes this celebration of valor.
by Hugh Joseph Ward
This cover is from 1940. Robots were a problem back then, too!
by Hugh Joseph Ward
This cover is from 1936 (source: the cover).
by Hugh Joseph Ward
This cover is from 1940.
Prison Life Stories was a magazine that ran for three issues in 1935. Edited by the warden of a federal prison, Prison Life Stories featured articles written by actual law enforcement personnel and actual convicts. J. Edgar Hoover contributed an article to the first issue. The third issue was written by prisoners.
Here are the three covers of Prison Life Stories:
by Monroe Eisenberg
by Hugh Joseph Ward
by Norman Saunders
by Hugh Joseph Ward
This cover is from 1939.
Through the Shattered Lens 