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Finally got myself this one, I posted it over in paperbacks but it deserves to be seen here too:

Board member @Axe Elf passed away April 15th. Many of us were deeply worried after he stopped showing up in the Warren Magazine reading club thread he curated, but we were not able to confirm his passing until today.
He was probably most active in the Magazine forums, but I saw him posting everywhere across the forums.  His love for the Warren Magazines directly inspired me to put together my collection, we were both working on our runs at the same time and we frequently pointed each other at books we knew we needed.
I wish I had known him better but I'm glad we were friends on the forum for the couple years we were here together, and I miss him and his funny, insightful comments and his absolute delight in the hobby.
https://www.aldenharrington.com/memorials/robert-yost/5412656/index.php

A few pages of "Steranko"

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Aww, we're all in this together Jimbo, you know all our opinions are like TP targets in the end  
I've felt like opining on this topic (I agree there's waaay too many "classics" being daubed around) but mostly to the extent that only the long time pulp collectors have any grasp on what the small pulp community considered classic for many years. I'd take the opinion of Tim, or Doug Ellis over any comic guys.
I'm a Marvel comic kid who grew up in the 70's comic scene so all the pulps I considered "classic" were the ones Steranko pictured in his "Bloody Pulps" section of his "History of Comics"
Many of those are classic, but the point is there were very few places (Steranko being one of them) that comic fans even casually got infected by great pulp art to be exposed enough to be privy to what the long standing pulp circle of collectors considered collectively.

A couple more CGC designated classes pulp covers.

So, my current brief analysis of the "Classic covers" on pulps so far:
1) CGC likes to qualify what sort of classic cover it is, only 3 of the 12 we've seen here were simply "Classic Cover"
2) There seems to be very little correlation between what are generally considered classic covers by long time pulp collectors and what they're labeling as classic covers.  See The Shadow The Black Hush not getting the designation as exhibit A for that.  And, even if the covers and title are growing in esteem these days, Famous Fantastic Mysteries being anything other than the cheap entry level title for new collectors is exhibit B.
3) Did anybody else have 1950 issues of Startling Stories as the high point for pulp cover art?  I'm happy to admit they're good covers, but at least 3 of the 6 issues getting the classic designation?
Anybody else have other insights on the subject yet?

Here I must respectful disagree.  There are definitely lots of classic pulp covers through the 40's and 50's as well.  

@jimjum12: Don't get me wrong, I LOVE 50's SF pulp covers.  I have a full set of 50's Planet Stories and probably over half the 50's issues of Starting Stories and Famous Fantastic Mysteries.  I was just specifically questioning one year of one title having 3 of 6 issues get the classic designation.  

Here I must respectful disagree.  There are definitely lots of classic pulp covers through the 40's and 50's as well.  

I fully concur. Classic is classic. Problem is, with so many pulps coming out of the woodwork lately, there are so much many of us have never seen. Seems like there as many or more classic pulp covers than comic covers. They just have to be seen to be deemed as such. 

Here I must respectful disagree.  There are definitely lots of classic pulp covers through the 40's and 50's as well.  

After Surf's monumental Maguire acquisition (yer hangin' twelve, Alien!) I felt like posting this just-in Berkley beauty...

"Come and Be Killed" by Dorothy Bennett.  Best Detective Novel No. 1 1942. Cover art by Cardwell Higgins. One of the coolest covers of the pre-Atlas Marvel digests.
Thanks to @Hap Hazard for letting this one go. It's a bit of a demon to find in any kind of decent shape.
 

 
The title page takes that Devil colophon up a notch to great effect

I have some very sad news to report:  I can now verify that @Axe Elf has passed.
I was rereading the thread when I came across this post
Which provides both a birth date, and his real name on a story he had published when he was 12.  With that information, I found this obituary, which matches all relevant details.
https://www.aldenharrington.com/memorials/robert-yost/5412656/index.php
Rest in peace, my friend, and thank you again for everything you contributed in your time here.

Board member @Axe Elf passed away April 15th. Many of us were deeply worried after he stopped showing up in the Warren Magazine reading club thread he curated, but we were not able to confirm his passing until today.
He was probably most active in the Magazine forums, but I saw him posting everywhere across the forums.  His love for the Warren Magazines directly inspired me to put together my collection, we were both working on our runs at the same time and we frequently pointed each other at books we knew we needed.
I wish I had known him better but I'm glad we were friends on the forum for the couple years we were here together, and I miss him and his funny, insightful comments and his absolute delight in the hobby.
https://www.aldenharrington.com/memorials/robert-yost/5412656/index.php

I think this is Powers, but very minimalist even for him. 

I think this is Powers, but very minimalist even for him. 

I like this one. It has the minimum required perspective field to keep my attention and look like a picture.
Actually like a nice b/w interior turned into a cover

I think this is Powers, but very minimalist even for him. 

I think this is Powers, but very minimalist even for him. 

I think this is Powers, but very minimalist even for him. 

He had an ability to provide a true "alien" quality to a work. He did become a little too "minimalist" for even my" everybody get's a trophy " pandering. Unlike Mae West. when Powers was good he was good, but when he was bad, he was definitely NOT better.  GOD BLESS ...
-jimbo(a friend of jesus)
 

Not everyone digs Powers. He sought an original approach where many contented themselves with a "house" style. That being said, the market was so compepetitive that the true duds were few, from every studio. GOD BLESS ...
-jimbo(a friend of jesus)
 

Robert Maguire original artwork for "Summer Street" by Hal Ellson, Ballantine No. 27, 1952.
It's very early for him, before he started with the large good girls. Still a cool JD piece and both front and back paintings 
It's in need of a fair amount of restoration and framing, both of which I'm happy to do to preserve his legacy 
Original art is so rewarding to handle.