pulp covers

[bandit86]

I have not seen these posted here so I hope this is not a re-post. But I found these and think they are cool and useful I hope you enjoy them.

http://pulpcovers.com/tag/mortkunstler/page/4/?page=8

[Prof. Dinglebat. Phd.]

  oh wow they're awesome. 

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

A great link thanks.

I love the picture that's titled: The Yank Who Stole A Strange Nazi Suicide Missile

I couldn't post it here, too many symbols to erase.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

I've been going through the pictures, loads of good stuff there. Here's a really nice Pulp scene.....

[pacarat]

Yep, that Babe to Hero ratio is spot on....   

[Hammers]

bingo! Here is the cover page to my handout sheets to my "Chicken race on the Arumbaya" scenario!



It is so fucking spot on!

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

bingo! Here is the cover page to my handout sheets to my "Chicken race on the Arumbaya" scenario!



It is so fucking spot on!

Absolutely perfect for that, I've been following your "Chicken race on the Arumbaya" thread with great interest, the last update was fantastic!

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Don't fall overboard up the Arumbaya!

[Amalric]

That is a great site!

I especially like this one;

The Last Yank On Singapore And His Footloose Ladies

[LordOdo]

I like how they removed the hero

[Prof. Dinglebat. Phd.]

Rock'n'Roll.   

http://www.pinterest.com/unaturalsoul/classic-pulp-covers-vol-1/

[d phipps]

Lots of great paintings! 

THANKS for sharing! 

[bandit86]

Glad you all like them, they are such great paintings I will be spending a bunch of time looking at all of them.
Thanks Prof. Dinglebat. Phd. for your link more pulp goodness

[sglancy12]

Am I splitting hairs if I say that while a bunch of those Mort Künstler painting are very Pulpy, they're not actually Pulp?

Künstler's work is from the "Real Men's Adventure" rags of the post war era... the 1950s and early 1960s. Those magazines are the inheritors of the Pulp market, but they always struck me as far trashier based on the amount of sexploitation the material promised. By the 1970s these mags devolved into the even trashier (and very photo-heavy) True Detective magazines.

In all fairness, Künstler's work is the best of the Men's Adventure rags. But I'm of the opinion that most of the art from the Men's Adventure rags simply pales in comparison with the Pulp covers of the 1930s. For me the Pulp Adventure genre is anchored in that pre-comic book era of serialized adventures from between the two World Wars.

A. Scott Glancy

[Valerik]

Am I splitting hairs if I say that while a bunch of those Mort Künstler painting are very Pulpy, they're not actually Pulp?  -snip-  A. Scott Glancy

I like to thinks there's lots of different varieties of Pulp, all rooted in action, adventure, cheap thrills, crime, dames, demons, evil, foreigners, improbability, revenge, seduction, suspense, and triumph.  What'd I miss?

Raise your hands if ON FIRST VIEWING you clearly recognized the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark as Pulp? 
Today, that's easy to see, then...not so much, right?  Twas just a grand adventure.

Personally, I admire this chap's take on the genre:

-snip- "post industrial popular literature"  -snip-

from this, similar, thread: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=16614.0

I'm getting better at seeing, & recognising, Pulp, in places I don't think of as naturally "Pulpy".
Kinda like seeing the "Western" in media that isn't obviously horse opera...

-snip-  For me the Pulp Adventure genre is anchored in that pre-comic book era of serialized adventures from between the two World Wars.  A. Scott Glancy

Now here I hafta disagree...  My Uncle Walt was my Dad's hero, & my grandmother's burden, because he bought my father comic books, in the '30s & '40s.  I'm not sure there are ANY comic books, besides Classics Illustrated of course, that AREN'T Pulp, in one of it's varietals, or another.

Valerik