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This fabulous other-wordly cover painting by the important American genre artist Paul Lehr was created for the July,1972 issue of Occult Magazine.

Occult

Artist: Paul Lehr

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: black magic, magazine cover, original cover art, Paul Lehr, Popular Library, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

A dark and mystical exhibited fine art oil painting by the prolific and frequent Golden Age of Illustration pulp artist Harry Fisk.

Nude Contemplation

Artist: Harry Fisk

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: black magic, Exhibited, nude, pulp, Salmagundi Club
Added to Gallery: April 21, 2018

In this gouache-on-board cover illustration for 1952’s The Scarlet Slipper, James Meese captures the unique mixture of the American homestead with a tough-talking private eye in the mix.

The Scarlet Slippers

Artist: James Alfred Meese

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, James Alfred Meese, lurid, original cover art, paperback, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: April 13, 2018

This gouache illustration painting appeared on the cover of Naked Sinner, the 1959 “savage novel of a wild call girl and her shocking immoral affairs”.

Naked Sinner

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: Bart Frame, Bedside Book, erotic, Greenleaf Publishing, Naked Sinner, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pin up, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

  A captivating, lustful, original cover painting by Victor Kalin created for use as cover art for the 1959 Dell paperback edition of the Scott Jordan mystery Murder on Broadway by Hal Masur. The work was titled The Last Gamble in its hardback incarnation, but the paperback title captures the lurid allure of the mystery of […]

Murder On Broadway

Artist: Victor Kalin

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: erotic, Hal Masur, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pin up, pulp, sleaze, Victor Kalin
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

Bold, large and provocative, a sensational scandalous paperback cover painting by Rudy Nappi which was created for use as the cover of French Alley by Matthew Clay. Part of the Star Novels series of digest sized paperbacks released by Publication House, NYC, this steamy novel follows the proclivities of three young attractive women who endure heartbreak and discover rapture […]

French Alley

Artist: Rudy Nappi

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Golden Age, lesbian, lurid, new orleans, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, risque, Rudy Nappi
Added to Gallery: March 1, 2018

A subversive youth gone wild party scene original cover painting by Peter Driben likely used for a paperback book title published by the Novel Library imprint. During the 1950s a hedonistic bohemian fictional sub-culture existed where teens smoked reefer and engaged in orgiastic exploits while becoming addicted to heroin. In showing these delinquents pursuing their darkest sinful desires, the illustrators of the day seemed to take great joy and this is a prime example of this sort of homage to debauchery.

The Make Out Room

Artist: Peter Driben

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, bohemian, Charles Martignette, illustration, Novel Library, original cover art, paperback, Peter Driben, pin up, pulp, sleaze, subversive
Added to Gallery: February 3, 2018

This originalartowrk by Cardwell Higgins shows a beautiful brunette pin up showgirl which appeared onthe May, 1937 issue of Modern Girl Book Magazine.

Modern Girl Book Pin-up Girl

Artist: Cardwell Higgins

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, pulp
Added to Gallery: January 12, 2018

This dramatic, futuristic sci-fi interior pulp illustration was created by Harold McCauley for an as-of-yet unidentified Ziff-Davis title.

The Baby Factory

Artist: Harold McCauley

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, fantasy, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, lurid, machine age, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, Ziff-Davis
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

Harold McCauley created this tense, action-packed, gritty, and dramatic illustration for an-as-of-yet unidentified pulp title, circa 1940s.

Encounter In A Sinister Place

Artist: Harold McCauley

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, lurid, macabre, orientalist, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, skull
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

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