by John Drew
This romantic cover is from 1942.
Artwork of the Day: Ranch Romances (by John Drew)
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Feel The Love With The Covers of Romantic Range!
With the 4th approaching, let’s celebrate the romance of the American frontier with these covers from Romantic Range. Romantic Range was a pulp magazine that ran from 1935 throughout the 1940s. The magazine featured love stories that took place on the range and the covers provided a break from the gunplay and deadly rattlesnakes that dominated most western magazines of the era. The covers are notable today for being romantic but surprisingly chaste, especially by the standards of the pulps.
Here’s a small sampling of some of the most innocent covers in the history of ranch romance.
by John Drew
by John Newton Howitt
Artist Unknown
Artist Unknown
Artist Unknown
by William Luberoff
by William Luberoff
The Body-Obsessed Covers Of Physical Culture
by Clinton Brown
Physical Culture was a magazine that ran from 1899 to 1951. It was founded by a man named Bernarr Macfadden, who used the magazine to promote body building and his theories on nutrition. Macfadden was a big believer in and advocate for fasting or, as some of us call it today, anorexia. Here’s a picture of him being visited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt:
And below is a small sampling of the body-obsessed covers of Physical Culture:
Artist Unknown
by John Drew
Artist Unknown
Artist Unknown
By Arthur Ray McCowen
by Clinton Brown
by Jay Weaver
by Jay Weaver
by Jay Weaver
by John Drew
Artist Unknown
Have A Culty Halloween With The Pulps
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
Artwork of the Day: Terror Tales (by John Drew)
by John Drew
This horrifying cover is from 1938.
Artwork of the Day: Ranch Romances (by John Drew)
by John Drew
This cover is from 1938.
Artwork of the Day: Terror Tales (by John Drew)
by John Drew
This cover is from 1938 and becomes more horrifying the longer that you look at it.
The Sinister Covers of Sinister Stories
In 1940, a new pulp magazine appeared on newsstands. Sinister Stories published “weird” stories, featuring cultists, monsters, and woman in distress. Unfortunately, the stories proved to be too sinister for many readers and the magazine was canceled after only three issues. However, the covers live on.
Here are the three covers of Sinister Stories:
by Harry Fisk
by John Coughlin
by John Drew
The Dangerous Lives of Models
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
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
Through the Shattered Lens 