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Mort Künstler

This original gouache cover painting by Mort Kustler appeared on the June 1959 cover of Male magazine, illustrating an interior story titled “Madame Penal”. The cover slug text says it all: “Dramatic saga of the young woman who ruled the Middle East’s Cafard Compound, and of the handful of Americans and 1500 starved and broken wretches forced […]

Madame Penal

Artist: Mort Kunstler
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Tagged With: Golden Age, magazine cover, Men's Magazine, Mort Künstler, original cover art, pulp
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2017

A kinetic, pop culture, post-war pulp painting by Mort Kunstler painted in 1964 and published as a cover in March of 1967 “For Men Only”. A fear mongering and chaotic depiction loosely illustrating the story “Belly Dancer Raid to Spring Russia’s Top Rocket Man.” Painting is very nicely framed and ready to hang.

Russia’s Top Rocket Man

Artist: Mort Künstler
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Tagged With: 1960s, american, automobilia, cold war, For Men Only, magazine cover, Mort Künstler, motor car, original cover art, pulp, russian, the sweats
Added to Gallery: February 21, 2014

A large gouache illustration for the cover of the October 1960 edition of Stag Magazine. A daring mountain top rescue illustrating the interior story “Three Months With The Wild Mountain Girls of Tibet” – “Sgt. Gregory’s Escape From Red Chinese Captivity”. A compelling read we are certain and by all accounts an action packed large scale gouache illustration.

Mountain Girls of Tibet

Artist: Mort Künstler
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Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, american, cold war, magazine cover, Mort Künstler, original cover art, pin up, pulp, Stag, the sweats
Added to Gallery: March 12, 2010

A tense and hyper-realist original gouache illustration by the highly regarded and prolific illustrator Mort Kunstler, this interior 2-page spread appeared in the May 1963 edition of True Action and possibly as a cover for Male Magazine in 1960. The lurid, defining action-filled image captures the prevailing nihilism associated with the 1960s “sweat magazine” art and envelope-pushing adventure fiction. This large and impacting gouache work takes place at a Korean brothel and plays on the Cold War-era fears which were prevalent in the aftermath of the Korean War.

Garden of 1000 Brides

Artist: Mort Künstler
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Tagged With: 1960s, american, asian, cold war, For Men Only, Mort Künstler, original cover art, original interior illustration, pulp, the sweats, True Action
Added to Gallery: March 9, 2010

A bizarre and gritty subway terror scene by Mort Kunstler from the “War at Home” genre prevalent in 1960s Men’s Magazine art. This depiction finds a handful of thugs in their best Lords of Flatbush garb accosting a pretty mod damsel. A square jawed, tough as nails Cold War era Military Man prevails in the name of justice over some assorted juvenile delinquents in this archetypical depiction of the ongoing culture war of the 60s. This was used as a May cover “For Men Only Magazine” with the title “Underground Angels Who Terrorized New York’s Subways”. This is an electric work; if you are a fan of the genre, this gouache painting has it all.

Underground Angels

Artist: Mort Künstler
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Tagged With: 1960s, american, cold war, For Men Only, magazine cover, Mort Künstler, original cover art, pin up, pulp, the sweats
Added to Gallery: January 12, 2010

A typically action packed interior illustration gouache painting by Mort Kunstler for the April 1957 edition of Sports Afield Magazine. A large menacing polar bear in pre-global warming, shrinking ice cap terrain with a Cessna water landing small aircraft as the backdrop. Nicely matted and framed and in pristine condition. Issue of magazine included in sale, caption reads “Not now!” I screamed at him. Too Late. There was no sound of slug hitting flesh. Instead, it chopped through the fuselage and smashed into the motor…

Top of the World

Artist: Mort Künstler
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Tagged With: 1950s, aviation, Mort Künstler, original interior illustration, pulp, Sports Afield
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2009

An original gouache on board created for the May 1962 edition of Male Magazine, illustrating “The Daring GI Raider Who Saved Our New Guinea Stronghold”. A large, finely rendered scene depicting a gun battle, with requisite yet inexplicable scantily attired native babes, as per the norm of the bizarre and lowbrow world of “The Sweats.”

New Guinea GI Raider

Artist: Mort Künstler
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Tagged With: 1960s, american, cold war, exoticism, Male, Mort Künstler, original interior illustration, pin up, pulp, the sweats
Added to Gallery: November 12, 2008

This dramatic and deftly rendered gouache was created as the cover for “Male” February 1966 “Yank Imposter In The Luftwaffe,” and reprinted as an interior 2 page spread in the June 1967 issue of “For Men Only” titled “10 Days To Bring In The Death Head General.” A remarkably tight work that shows Kunstler at his best, using an almost photo-realist technique to create tension, menace and fear.

Yank Imposter in the Luftwaffe

Artist: Mort Künstler
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Tagged With: 1960s, magazine cover, Male, Mort Künstler, nazi, original cover art, pin up, pulp, the sweats, WWII
Added to Gallery: May 15, 2008

An original gouache on board created for the cover of the September 1962 edition of For Men Only, illustrating the story Operation”Never-Talk:” Shocking Revenge of Norway’s Partisan Nymph. (A Smuggled-In Yank And A Wild Anti-Nazi Underground Girl by James S. Wagner. A large finely rendered scene of a bungled SS operation, with a trio of tightly wound American service men, a gathering of inebriated Nazi’s and a pair of scantily clad female secret agents acting as decoys.

Norway’s Partisan Nymph

Artist: Mort Künstler
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Tagged With: 1960s, american, cold war, For Men Only, german, magazine cover, Mort Künstler, nazi, norway, original cover art, pin up, pulp, WWII
Added to Gallery: April 20, 2008

A large gouache illustration for the January 1961 edition of Stag Magazine. A daring night time rescue depiction illustrating the interior story “The Amazing GI Who Took Three Head Hunting Brides. A Pacific Island World War II entanglement complete with topless native women and native headhunters and a lone anglo-saxonized square jawed daring G.I.

Amazing G.I. Who Took Three Head Hunting Brides

Artist: Mort Künstler
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Tagged With: 1960s, american, cold war, exoticism, Mort Künstler, nude, pacific, pin up, pulp, Stag, the sweats, WWII
Added to Gallery: April 2, 2008

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