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A feisty redhead is caught in a private moment in this voyeuristic and menacing published pulp painting that was used as the cover of Ecstasy Books #15 “Wanton By Night.” The image is filled with classic pulp iconography, from the scantily-clad femme fatale hurryingly drawing down her shade in the close confines of urban apartment […]

Wanton by Night

Artist: George Gross

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: damsel in distress, Ecstasy Books, George Gross, paperback, pin up, pulp, Pursuit, True Crime
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2019

An action packed 1965 oil and tempura painting by Harry Schaare, that appeared as the cover of the Pyramid paperback Harlem Underground written by the author known as Ed Lacy. Lacy was a pseudonym for Leonard S. Zinberg who explored themes of racial prejudices and injustices throughout his fiction. In this work, Lee Hayes, a rookie policeman with youthful looks and […]

Harlem Underground

Artist: Harry Schaare

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Harlem Underground, Harry Schaare, lurid, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, True Crime
Added to Gallery: April 29, 2016

  It doesn’t get more action packed than this high drama scene of a gangster mol pin-up girl in a shoot out with an unseen mobster trying to push her out of a moving car in a seedy urban Chinatown. An original oil on board artwork by Wil Hulsey, this appeared as the cover of a 1956 issue of Guilty […]

Make Me A Widow

Artist: Wil Hulsey

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Chinatown, Gang, Guilty Detective Story, magazine cover, original cover art, pulp, True Crime, Wil Hulsey
Added to Gallery: December 1, 2014

 

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