by Robert Gibson Jones
Artwork of the Day: Fantastic Adventures (by Robert Gibson Jones)
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It’s The End Of The World!: Pulp Art of the Apocalypse
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
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
Art Profile: The Covers of Fantastic Adventures
Fantastic Adventures was an extremely successful and influential pulp magazine that was published from 1939 to 1953. They published a combination of fantasy, horror, and adventure, all distinguished by a more light-hearted approach than some of the other pulp magazines of the era.
Even better, Fantastic Adventures was one of the few pulp magazines to give proper credit to its cover artists:
by Harold W. McCauley
by Ed Valigursky
by Raymond Naylor
by Robert Gibson Jones
by Stockton Mulford
by Harold W. McCauley
by Robert Gibson Jones
by Rod Ruth
by Walter Parke
by Arnold Kohn
Artist Profile: Robert Gibson Jones (1889 — 1969)
Originally born in Ohio, Robert Gibson Jones studied art at the Chicago Art School. He worked in advertising through the 1920s before eventually doing his first pulp magazine cover in 1943. He is best known for painting the covers of magazines like Amazing Stories, Amazing Adventures, and Mammoth Detective.
A small sampling of his work can be found below:
