by John Newton Howitt
This frightening cover is from 1936.
Artwork of the Day: Horror Stories (by John Newton Howitt)
Tag Archives: John Newton Howitt
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
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: The Spider (by John Newton Howitt)
by John Newton Howitt
This cover is from 1935. Spider vs vampire!
Pulp Vampires!
by Margaret Brundage
From the beginning of the pulp era to the modern day, horror has always been a popular genre. And with horror comes the vampires! Vampires were a popular subject for both the writers and the readers of the pulps. Much blood was spilt between the covers. Here are just a few of the vampires of the pulps:
by Paul Lehman
by John Newton Howitt
by Rafael DeSoto
by Sebastia Boada
by Sebastia Boada
By CC Senf
by H. William Reusswig
by Margaret Brundage
by Robert Bonfils
by Robert Maguire
by Rudolph Belarski
Unknown Artist
It’s not really October until a vampire comes tapping at your window, asking to be invited in.
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
Beware The Tentacles Of October!
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
Artwork of the Day: Horror Stories (by John Newton Howitt)
by John Newton Howitt
Artwork of the Day: Terror Tales (by John Newton Howitt)
by John Newton Howitt
Get Ready For Independence Day With The Adventures Of Operator #5
by John Newton Howitt
With Independence Day approaching, it’s time to honor Jimmy Christopher. Jimmy was an agent for United States Intelligence, cod-named Operator #5. From 1934 to 1939, Jimmy kept America safe from its enemies as the star of the 10-cent pulp magazine, Secret Service Operator #5. Today, Secret Service Operator #5 is best-remembered for two things: a 13 issue arc in which Jimmy became a freedom fighter after America was conquered by the Purple Empire (a thinly-veiled stand-in for Nazi Germany) and a series of exciting, patriotic covers.
Unless otherwise noted, the covers below are all credited to John Newton Howitt:
by Rafael De Soto
Unknown Artist
Unknown Artist
