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The Adventurous Cover of Adventure Magazine

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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: Shannon Stirnweis (1932 — 2019)

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The veteran illustrator Shannon Stirnweis passed away in 2019, at the age of 87.  The following is taken from the obituary, which originally appeared in the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript on Jan. 23, 2019:

Serving in the Army in 1954, he was stationed in Germany where he illustrated for the Army. Working as an Illustrator in NYC, he was President of the Society of Illustrators and one of the founding fathers of the Graphic Artists Guild. Shannon illustrated over 35 children’s books as well as 3 books for Grumbacher Library, “The Art of Painting Dogs”, “The Art of Painting Cats”, and “The Art of Painting the Wild West”. He recently published a book on his life as a painter, “80 Years Behind the Brush”. He wanted to be remembered most for painting scenes of the American West.

Below is a small sampling of some of his work for the pulps: