Celebrating New Orleans With The Pulps

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Dazzling Erin

Unknown Artist

Tomorrow is Mardi Gras. For many people, it will be their last chance to celebrate and indulge before the start of Lent. Though there are annual celebrations across the country, the city that everyone think of when they hear the words “Mardi Gras” is New Orleans. If you’ve not going to be able to get down to New Orleans this year to celebrate Mardi Gras, don’t worry. Through the Shattered Lens has got you covered with these New Orleans and Mardi Gras-related pulp covers!

by Bernard Barton

by Earle Bergey

by Harry Bennett

by Mitchell Hooks

by Philip Ronfor

by Rudy Nappi

Artist Unknown

by William George

by Stanley Zuckerberg

Welcome to the Future!

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Dazzling Erin

by Raymond L. Jones

Happy New Year and welcome to the future! Whenever we start a new year, I always like to go back and see what people thought the future would be like. While a visitor from the 1950s would be astounded by much of what we take for granted in 2020, they might still wonder why we don’t have a single lunar colony.

Here are just a few examples of what the pulp era expected from the future:

by Stanley Meltzoff

Artist Unknown

by Earle Bergey

by Rudolph Belarski

by Ed Valigursky

Artist Unknown

by Elliott Dold

by Milton Luros

by John Forte Jr.

by Milton Luros

The Skeletal Covers Of The Pulp Era

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Dazzling Erin

Skeleton and skulls are naturally creepy, especially when they’re still moving and talking! Skulls and bones were a mainstay on the covers of pulp and especially horror related magazines. For this Halloween, take a trip back into the bony past with a few skeletal covers from the pulp era!

by Norman Saunders

by Rafael De Soto

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Robert Stanley

by Rudolph Belarski

The Salacious Covers of Inside Detective

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Dazzling Erin

by Albert Fisher

For over 60 years, Inside Detective Magazine provided the readers with the salacious details of true life crime. Every story was advertised as being true and many were said to come straight from police files. From the 1930s until it ceased publication in the 90s, Inside Detective was one of the most popular true detective magazines. The publishers understood that nothing sells like sex and violence and the covers of Inside Detective promised both. Below, we have a few of them:

by Albert Fisher

Artist Unknown

by David Berger

by Harwood Forgsen

Artist Unknown

by Norman Saunders

Artist Unknown

by Peter Driben

Unknown Artist

No Trigger Warning Can Protect You From The Dangerous Covers Of Dime Detective Magazine!

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Dazzling Erin

Artist Unknown

It’s a dangerous world out there and here to prove it is Dime Detective Magazine! Dime Detective was one of the most popular of the classic pulp magazines, running for 274 issues between 1931 and 1953. Dime Detective was known for its outrageous covers. Here’s just a few of them:

by H. William Ruesswig

by H. William Reusswig

by John Newton Howitt

by Malvin Singer

by Norman Saunders

by Rafael De Soto

by Walter Baumhofer

Artist Unknown

by John Newton Howitt

The Covers of The Avenger

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Dazzling Erin

Long before Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor, Richard Henry Benson was The Avenger. Benson was a globe-trotting adventurer and millionaire who, with his team of assistants, battled evil wherever he found it. From 1939 to 1942, his adventures were detailed in The Avenger Magazine. The majority were written by Paul Ernst under the pen named Kenneth Robeson.

There were 24 issues of The Avenger. The majority of them featured covers by artist Harold Winfield Scott. Have a look at a few of them below:

by Harold Winfield Scott

Artist Unknown

Art Profile: The Many Adventures of Steve Holland

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

Who was Steve Holland?

He was one of the most familiar faces in the world of the pulps. An actor and a model, Holland’s rugged good looks inspired a countless number of magazine and paperback covers. Over the course of his career, Holland served as the model for everyone from tough private investigators to prehistoric warriors to futuristic adventurers to suburban husbands.

Check out just a few of the adventures of Steve Holland below: