#pulp covers

[thedaswolves]

From Bioware blog from february 2016.

A series of Inquisition-themed pulp fiction covers. Illustrations by Hannah Friederichs

These are so good omg never saw them before 😅❤️

[misforgotten2]

Cover by Bob Clothier -- 1950

[vintagegeekculture]

[themisstakenidentity]

The Pulp Dames of Reginald Heade

More below the fold!

Art by Reginald Heade (1901-1957). Most of these came from @pulpcovers

The cover for Don't Mourn Me, Toots was "the subject of forty-two destruction orders by various local authorities" under the Obscene Publications Act in the UK:

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The irrationality of the Act was illustrated in 1953, when the shop of Elsie Foulds in Swindon was raided and 348 items were seized, of which magistrates ordered 197 (representing over fifty titles) to be destroyed. Among the offending articles were examples of the hard-boiled action thriller that had sprung up in the wake of James Hadley Chase – books like Nat Karta’s The Foolish Virgin Says No, Gene Ross’s Corpse in the Boudoir and Hank Janson’s Don’t Mourn Me, Toots – as well as several magazines including: Ahaaaaaa!!!, Desirée, Flip, Monsieur, Nifty, Oooooo!!!, Pidgy, Radiant, Tricky and Wink.

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[swornsword]

[charnel-grounds]

Spicy Mystery Stories #1 - Culture Publications, June 1935

cover art by Hugh Joseph Ward

source

[spacenoirdetective]

Frank Frazetta, cover art for "Tarzan the Invincible", 1962

[saintmichale]

Snap girl I think you dropped something, my jaw