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    Large and stark, this gouache on board artwork by an obscure pulp & science fiction illustrator using the name Ross appeared as the cover the the May 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction illustrating a story titled “The Man Who Could Not Stop.” The story tells the tale of a […]

The Man Who Could Not Stop

Artist: Ross
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Tagged With: Fantasy And Science Fiction, menace, pulp, russian, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration
Added to Gallery: July 6, 2018

A genre defining girl in peril, menace themed pulp cover painting by the prolific and gifted American illustrator Peter Driben, this appeared as the cover for the December 1941 issue of Expose Detective True Crime Cases. Illustrating the interior story The Scarlet Sinner’s Final Exit, this lurid, large and rare surviving pulp cover painting has it all. Beautifully framed and in a fine state of conservation.

The Scarlet Sinner

Artist: Peter Driben
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Tagged With: 1940s, american, damsel in distress, Expose Detective, lingerie, lurid, menace, Peter Driben, pulp
Added to Gallery: March 12, 2015

    This provocative, subversive interior illustration by Bruce Minney for Male Annual #8, 1970 illustrates the interior story “I Fought A Desert Bullwhip Duel For A Fortune In Gems.” The S&M and fetish themes are foregrounded in the image as Minney shows Yank Pat Duncan armed with only the whip of his savagely murdered partner getting frontier justice in […]

Bullwhip Duel

Artist: Bruce Minney
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Tagged With: Bruce Minney, fetish, Men's Magazine art, menace, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

    An action packed Cold War-era interior illustration by Bruce Minney for the October, 1965 edition of For Men Only. Illustrating the special book bonus story by Bill S. Ballinger, Nude Of The China Seas, an excerpt from The Spy in the Jungle, book three in the Joaquin Hawks thriller series.  The story itself focuses on Hawks’s James […]

Nude of the China Seas

Artist: Bruce Minney
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Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, Men's Magazine art, menace, original illustration art, original interior illustration, risque
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

    A daring gang of female POWs rappel down a wall of a secret “Nazi Sex Stalag” atop the perilous heights provided by Germany’s notorious Liecht castle, with the help of the “G.I. master escaper” Sergeant Howard Lester. This tense and taut hyper dramatic interior illustration scene by Bruce Minney is a classic example of men’s […]

Breakout Girls Of The Sex Stalag

Artist: Bruce Minney
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Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, lurid, menace, nazi, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, sweats, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

 This unusual example of a science fiction themed menace pulp illustration by the talented artist Lawrence Sterne Stevens was created as cover art for the July 1948 issue of Fantastic Novels.  Renowned for his grotesque imaginative horror art, and often compared to contemporary Virgil Finlay, Stevens was named after his father–a deeply religious preacher–and signed […]

Alien Menace Pulp Cover

Artist: Lawrence Sterne Stevens
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Tagged With: damsel in distress, Fantastic Novels, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, menace, original cover art, pulp, sci-fi, The Golden Gallery, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: January 24, 2014

A bizarre and other-wordly rare surviving pulp cover painting by Harold W. McCauley for the October 1949 edition of “Amazing Stories”. A lurid and menacing, yet strangely beautiful illustration for the story “Tiger Women of Shadow Valley” by Berkeley Livingston. Story caption reads “There Was Death In Her Embrace”. This inspired work perfectly captures the luminous commercial technique and painterly elements of a successful Haddon Sundblom “Sundblom Shop” graduate and disciple in collision with pin-up girl, erotic science fiction pulp culture.

Tiger Woman of Shadow Valley

Artist: Harold McCauley
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Tagged With: 1940s, Amazing Stories, american, Charles Martignette, erotic, Harold McCauley, lurid, menace, pin up, pulp, science fiction, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 12, 2010

A sensational, action packed, original oil painting by Allen Anderson. Commissioned as a cover for the pulp title Spicy Detective this work illustrates “The Corpse is Yours” by Robert A. Garron in the May 1941 issue. The artist created a number of these spicy covers for Culture Publications in the 1930s and 1940s. Anderson had some fun with this painting, presenting his signature on the canvas of the oil painting pictured within the scene, he also employs a very thick impasto technique on the paint colors that appears on the artist’s palette at the bottom of the field to appear as fresh paint used on the canvas being created within.

The Corpse Is Yours

Artist: Allen Anderson
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Tagged With: 1940s, Allen Anderson, good girl art, lurid, menace, nude, pin up, pulp, Spicy Detective, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 10, 2010

A lurid, action filled, original pulp cover oil on canvas by Harry Lemon Parkhurst / H. L. Parkhurst, one of the premier artists creating spicy pulp imagery for Culture Publications during the 1930s – 40s. This work illustrates “It’s Your Funeral” by Robert A. Garron and was used as the cover for the June 1941 issue of Private Detective. Surviving pulp paintings for this title and by this artist are scarce and this painting has it all; action, danger, drama, menace and movement.

It’s Your Funeral

Artist: H. L. Parkhurst
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Tagged With: 1940s, american, circus, damsel in distress, H. L. Parkhurst, menace, nude, Private Detective, pulp, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 9, 2010

A rare original Norman Saunders cover painting created for a 1950s era pulp publication. Saunders created a similarly composed Black Mask pulp cover in 1950 with essentially the same scene. This is a defining example of the suspense and danger that are the trademarks of Saunders masterful noir cover paintings. The painting has been estate stamped by the artist’s daughter and work is nicely and professionally framed.

A Masquarading Jewel Thief

Artist: Norman Saunders
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Tagged With: 1950s, mask, masquarade, menace, noir, Norman Saunders, pulp, suspenseful
Added to Gallery: April 8, 2009

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