Tag Archives: Hugh Joseph Ward

The Covers of Prison Life Stories

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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

The Spicy Covers of Bedtime Stories

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by Earle Bergey

From 1934 to 1939, Bedtime Stories featured spicy stories and risqué covers that were done by some of the best pin-up artist in the pulp industry.  Here is a sampling of just some of the playful covers of Bedtime Stories!

1933, by Enoch Bolles

1934, by Enoch Bolles

1934, by Enoch Bolles

1935, by Earle Bergey

1935, by Earle Bergey

1935, by Hugh Joseph Ward

1936, by Hugh Joseph Ward

1937, by Hugh Joseph Ward

1937, by Hugh Joseph Ward

1938, by Peter Driben

1938, by Peter Driben

1939, by Peter Driben

The Dangerous Lives of Models

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by Enoch Bolles

Sometime glamorous.  Sometimes sordid.  Sometimes dangerous.  The life of the model has always been a popular subject for the pulps.  Below are some pulp covers that deal not only with the experience of being model but also the weight of being an artist.   There’s a price for everything.

by Ann Cantor

by Arnold Kohn

Artist Unknown

by Bernard Safran

by John Drew

by Paul Rader

by Rafael DeSoto

by Robert Bonfils

by Verne Tossey

by Hugh Joseph Ward

 

 

The Dastardly Cults of the Pulp Era

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by John Walter Scott

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, tortured, and frightened.  Luckily, there’s often a strong-jawed hero right around the corner to take them out and save the day.

Here’s a few of the cults of the pulp era!

by George Hargis

by Harry Lemon Parkhurst

by Hugh Joseph Ward

by J. Allen St. John

by John Drew

by John Newton Howitt

by Rudolph Zirm

by Tom Lovell

by Walter Baumhofer

by Arnold Kohn

Beware The Tentacles Of October!

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by John Newton Howitt

Are you scared of tentacles?

Whether they’re reaching down from the sky or coming out of the water, the idea of being grabbed and, even worse, squeezed by several slimy tentacles is a scary one!  Perhaps that’s why it was such a popular image during the pulp age.  Below is just a sampling of some of the era’s tentacle horror, courtesy of some of the best artists to work in the pulps!

by Earle Bergey

by Alexander Leydenfrost

by Edmund Emshwiller

by Hugh Joseph Ward

by L.B. Cole

by Lou Fine

by Rafael DeSoto

by Robert Bonfils

by Ron Embleton

by Rudolph Belarski