by Jerome Rozen
This is from World War II.
Artwork of the Day: Won’t You Give My Boy A Chance To Get Home? (by Jerome Rozen)
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The Adventures of the Masked Detective
From 1940 to 1943, Rex Parker starred in his own pulp magazine! He wore a mask and he was a detective so, of course, he was known as the Masked Detective. On a quarterly basis, he battled criminals and spies and saved kidnapped women. He was a popular detective but not even he could survive the World War II paper shortage. Though his magazine was discontinued in 1943, Rex will live forever on the covers.
Here are a few of the adventures of Rex Parker. When known, the artist has been credited.
Fall, 1940, by Jerome Rozen
Winter, 1941, artist unknown
Spring 1941, artist unknown
Summer, 1941, by Milton Luros
1941, December, Artist Unknown
Spring, 1942, artist unknown
Summer, 1942, artist unknown
Fall, 1942, by Milton Luros
Spring 1943, artist unknown
Winter 1943, artist unknown
Artwork of the Day: Excitement (by Jerome Rozen)
by Jerome Rozen
As it says right on the cover, this is from 1930. Even back then, people worried about what would happen when the machines turned on their masters.
The Many Adventures of Captain Future
Artist Unknown
Who was Captain Future? He was Curtis Newton, who was born on the moon and who, after the murder of his parents by intergalactic spies, was raised and trained by a scientist and two robots. Captain Future kept the solar system safe from crime and other extraterrestrial threats. His adventures took place in the distant future year of … 1990. (At the time his stories were published, that was the future!) Captain Future headlined his own magazine from 1940 to 1951, with additional stories appearing in publications like Startling Stories and Amazing Stories.
Below are a few covers from Captain Future’s adventures. The majority of these were done by Earle Bergey, though Rudolph Belarski and Jerome Rozen did some work on the series as well.
by Jerome Rozen
by Earle Bergey
by Earle Bergey
by Earle Bergey
by Earle Bergey
by Earle Bergey
by Earle Bergey
by Earle Bergey
by Earle Bergey
by Earle Bergey
by Earle Bergey
by Rudolph Belarski
Unknown Artist
Unknown Artist
Artist Profile: Jerome Rozen (1895 — 1987)
Jerome Rozen was born in Chicago and grew up in Arizona, where he first took art classes from a local teacher. After serving in the army during World War I, Rozen visited the Louvre in Paris and was inspired to pursue a career as an artist. Upon returning home, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was eventually hired as an instructor at the Institute. He also found success painting covers for pulp magazines like The Shadow, Battle Stories, Wu Fang Mysteries, and Western Story. During World War II, Rozen also designed several patriotic posters and magazine advertisements.
A small sampling of his work can be found below.
Through the Shattered Lens 