Those of us born after, say, 1950, probably aren’t terribly familiar with pulp magazines. But most anybody reading one today might get a jolt of déjà vu nonetheless. From the 1920s through the ’40s, ...
12 x 8.75 in. (30.5 x 22.2 cm.) Matted but not framed - A crime drama needs a cover image. What to do? Hire Rafael Desoto to make a powerful visual statement. This Noir Illustration was done on ...
Art by Gloria Stoll Karn / Image courtesy of The Norman Rockwell Museum At 17, it looked like Gloria Stoll Karn's -- known then just as Gloria Stoll -- dreams of being an artist were through. It was ...
With profound economic uncertainty lingering at home and the clouds of fascism building abroad, Americans were in desperate need of an escape in the 1930s. So they flooded into movie houses on a daily ...
The field of illustrating pulp fiction magazines was lower-paying, freelance sales, with an open-door policy, purposely designed to avoid the high-paying, annually-contracted, star system for artists ...
The book thudded on my desk like a bum fighter hitting the canvas. “The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps.” That’s what it said on the cover, right above the picture of the dame. I drained a shot of rye ...
STOCKBRIDGE — A new show at the Norman Rockwell Museum celebrates the pulp magazine work of Gloria Stoll Karn, but that show might not exist if it weren't for a kindly Brooklyn janitor with an eye for ...
The debut issue of historic long-running pulp magazine The Shadow (April, 1931) in FN- condition has just sold for $156,000 at Heritage Auctions, a record price for the issue in any grade. The ...
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