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

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Dazzling Erin

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

Artist Unknown

by Ralph Brillhart

Artist Unknown

by Frank R. Paul

by Sam Peffer

by Robert McGinnis

Artist Unknown

by Hubert Rogers

The Covers of Mammoth Detective

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Dazzling Erin

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

by Robert Gibson Jones

by James Axlerod

by Harold McCauley

Art Profile: The Covers of Fantastic Adventures

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

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)

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Dazzling Erin

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: