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Popular Stories

An important early cover painting by Jerome Rozen for the June 7, 1927 long running twice monthly adventure pulp title “Popular Stories.” This painting combines Westward Ho, covered wagon western Americana imagery with civil war drama, in a vaguely historical scene with intensely powerful imagery. The depiction, in the strong color blocks for which the pulps were famed, features a confederate soldier menacing an elderly African America slave and sympathetic young damsel who are attempting to flee unspoken horrors through the desolate prairie.

A Covered Wagon Confrontation

Artist: Jerome Rozen

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, civil war, Golden Age, Jerome Rozen, magazine cover, original cover art, Popular Stories, pulp, Street & Smith, The Shadow, western, western americana
Added to Gallery: July 8, 2011

 

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