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The Adventurous Cover of Adventure Magazine

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

One of the most popular and financially successful pulp magazines, Adventure Magazine ran from 1910 t0 1971, for a total of 881 issues!  That’s 881 covers, all done by some of the best illustrators and artists in the pulp field.  I can’t share all 881 of those covers but I can still offer a small but representative sampling of the adventurous covers of Adventure Magazine!  As you can see Adventure featured adventures that took place everywhere, including underwater, in the jungle, in war, and during the era of the Old West.

By Charles Dye

by Griffith Foxley

by Herb Mott

by Mel Crair

by Mort Kunstler

by Peter Stevens

by Rico Tomaso

by Roger Kastel

by Shannon Stirnweis

by Sydney Shores

by Victor Prezio

by Walter Baumhofer

Artist Profile: Peter Stevens (1920–2001)

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

Born in Cardiff, Peter Stevens was the son of two artists.  (His father, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, was a prominent pulp artist at the same time as his son.)  Peter Stevens studied at London’s Royal Academy of Art and, with his wife, moved to New York in 1940.  It was while serving in the Army during World War II that Peter sold his first pulp illustrations to Argosy.  From 1943 to 1963 (when his shifted his focus to doing commissioned portraits), Stevens did covers for almost every prominent pulp magazine.

A few of those covers can be found below: