Art Profile: The Many Adventures of Steve Holland


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:

by David Bergen

by James Elliott Bama

by George Wilson

by Jack Faragasso

by Stanley Borack

by Mort Kunstler

by Robert Maguire

by Robert Maguire

by Stanley Borack

by Victor Prezio

Artist Profile: Stanley Borack (1927 — 1993)


Born in Brooklyn, Stanley Borack served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and studied art at the Art Students League of New York under the G.I. Bill.  He began his career as professional illustrator in 1950 and, up until he retired at the end of the 1970s, he did hundreds of covers for pulp magazines and paperback book publishers.  Among collectors, he is especially known for the racy covers he did for Ted Mark’s Man From O.R.G.Y. series.  After retirement, his spent his remaining years doing painting of the Old West for fine art galleries across the country.

Cruise of Plywood Coffin Husband Chaser My Son, The Double Agent Raid of the Jivaro Headhunters The Day Kruschev Panicked The Loves of Dr. Devere The Man From Avon The Man From O.R.G.Y. The Thrill Makers Woman of the Avalon z-west z-west2