Tag Archives: Robert Gibson Jones

The Skeletal Covers Of The Pulp Era

Posted on 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

It’s The End Of The World!: Pulp Art of the Apocalypse

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The end of the world has always been a popular subject, as you can tell by looking at the artwork below.  Some of these were done for magazines and some of them for paperbacks but what they all have in common is that they deal with the end of the world as we know it.

Presented for your consideration, pulp art of the apocalypse:

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Ed Valigursky

by Barye Philips

Artist Unknown

Artist Unknown, suspected to be Ralph Brillhart

by Ralph Brillhart

by Ralph Brillhart

Artist Unknown

by Ralph Brillhart

Artist Unknown

by Frank R. Paul

by Frank R. Paul

by Sam Peffer

by Robert McGinnis

Artist Unknown

by Hubert Rogers

The Covers of Mammoth Detective

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33 issues of Mammoth Detective were published between 1942 and 1947 and they all lived up to their name.  Initially, an average issue of Mammoth Detective was 322 pages long but eventually, it was reduced down to 178 pages.  That was still too many pages for the magazine survive the paper shortages of World War II.

Mammoth Detective cover artists included Robert Gibson Jones, Harold McCauley, and James Axelrod.  Check out some samples of their work below:

Unknown Artist

Unknown Artist

Unknown Artist

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Robert Gibson Jones

by James Axlerod

by Harold McCauley