Darwination

It Ain't Hay LMAO, never seen that before. I may have to chase down the Woolrich PB. So good. A bit of slang, you get "green" when you've had a bit too much - lightweights! - (or rather imbibe after a night drinking, compounding effects). A nice representation here.

Delos Palmer for the Complete Detective per David Saunders here: https://www.pulpartists.com/Palmer.html Imo, Palmer can be a little bit of a chameleon, and his most polished stuff was in true crime. I wish I knew on the second. The romance pulp covers can be so hard to ID, but I'm at least certain that, whoever the artist is, he or she was doing steady work at Ace, as there's a continuity in style for a long run of covers.

I think it's some sort of riding pants where the pant slips over the boot and then gets laced. And buttons one side of the pants and then some sort of buckle opposite? Don't ask me. I'm a meat and potatoes guy with little knowledge of whatever gear she's got going Not a man to knock another's kink, it's your thing - do what you wanna do And is she basking in the moonlight just because? Jonesing? Excited about a visitor? A very detailed piece, Palmer must have been invested in this one.

My Secret Marriage 08, Superior sleaze. This cover Featuring "Love in the Hills," artist unknown. A rundown of the issue's contents here: http://darwinscans.blogspot.com/2023/04/my-secret-marriage-july-1954-canadian.html Up at eBay this week - I have no idea who even chases these rare birds in a lower grade, but we shall see. Easily the best cover of the series, though there are a few others I like as well (none of these are in my collection, I think this is the sole issue I've owned).

OK, since there's been some Baker/Not Baker chatter regarding some of these covers, how about this story that Overstreet credits to Baker and the GCD keeps the question marks on. I guess I'm seeing some Baker (women's figures and faces) but perhaps the hands of other artists just about everywhere else. From All-Famous Police Cases #7, "Death Is Its Only Reward":

I hate to backtrack a bit, but I wanted to return to Howell Dodd for a second and post some images from a friend's recent scan (and there's one illo from this issue back a couple pages anyways). The splashes are great but there are a number of spot illustrations as well in modes we don't think of Dodd in that I noticed immediately. From Cavalcade September 1959 An overlooked but favorite era of the sweats (men's adventure mags, whatever we want to call them). The cover to cover issue is here or at the IA here. Thanks to the excellent scanner as well as the donator of the magazine (and those of you not in the io pulpscans group - once the old yahoo pulpscans group are missing out). The splash to open the issue Love the way the two tone color is used here. I think it's fantastic. The gentleman in the sombrero seems a bit mesmerized. Also note the alternate signature DuBose. The lettering in the sig looks like Dodd. The painting looks like and is credited to Dodd. So this is not a misattribution but an alternate signature (maybe he went with it because there are so many other illos by him in the issue, the old pulp trick of using different author pseudonyms when one author had too many entries in a single issue). Further substantiation, a DUBOSE at Heritage (the only entry they have there, date/location unknown) And the other splash, though I'd already posted it But check the spot illustrations in the issue as well, Dodd in an alternate mode Neat-o! Also of note to illustration fans in this issue is a very neat expose on Jon Whitcomb's WWII art.

I swear this was also used as a pulp cover. It's just *killing* me I can't figure out which. A very ineffective approach towards strangulation, by the way, but one that lends to an energetic expression -

Decisions, decisions...Fantastic.

A grubby copy, looking around it seems like I see as many Canadian editions as the Quality. I've been reading a lot of the Humorama digests lately, so it's hard to remember Bill Ward in comics mode, not too shabby. His splash and another page from the lead entry.

Reminds me of this one (which I don't own) For some info on the artist and publication: https://darwinscans.blogspot.com/2023/03/joy-stories-v01n03-february-1930-worth.html

A couple of pages from the latter, from Louis Zansky's "Two Wayward Girls!"

Pete Morisi. I think I prefer Honey Seems Bitter as the more fetching title

Love it. The romance covers are so underrated but in my opinion some of his best. That's a very nice copy, too, as far as I'm concerned.

LMAO, love it That Helen of Troy is notorious, seem to recall it causing a censorship ruckus. It's kind of wild to see a Belarski with the blatant nips, his pulp work tends to be on the more modest side. Now that Overboard, that's a Belarski I can get behind -

Forget the poor girls getting menaced by dudes with issues, Ward's best work is in the girlie pulps From my collection or or here are some images edited from Ward covers in my collection edited by Cimmerian32 edited by McCoy e one from yours truly, perhaps my favorite. On my want list if anyone has the issue, a stunner.

This is so weird. It came out the same month as this Laughter (a scarce humor mag/proto girlie pulp from the same publishing house as Paris Nights and American Beauties as well as Brief Stories published by Will Kofoed) I And the Vampires is even signed with the EB although it is certainly not Bolles. Both are after this Leonnec from an edition of La Vie Parisienne I've been unable to date so far: An I'm super curious what the content of Vampires is and who the publisher might be... Brief Stories seems pretty scarce considering its long run, 124 issues. I'd love to see some big images of those covers if anybody has some. Here's more Laughter from my collection:

What a wild thread. I recognize some of the American counterparts, but, geez, I never even realized there were so many Canadian editions, many wonderfully hideous with some really great ones sprinkled in. I have seen a few issues of Paree and that Paris Nights c1950 a number times around the girlie pulps, the second issue is fairly common, so it must have sold pretty well. My faves:

I added this one to my Flickr gallery tonight reworked from a previously edited Heritage image, kind of a funky jungle scene. The lush greens and red in front and all that skin tone. Homegirl is in bondage, there's a leopard and a tiger on either side of her, the tiger looking at the reader. Then the swami with the fly vest has some sort of electricity or mind bolt shooting out of his forehead. The scared looking native with the knife. And jungle man in the leopard speedo way in back all against a magenta and purple canopy. What was L.B. Cole smoking, anyways? I do have a copy of this one

I'm crazy about Avons. Great westerns for sure. It seems like a lot of the Avon westerns in particular survive in nice shape compared to, say, romance or crime. B But my favorite part about Avons? The inner front cover "contents" illustration -

So, I hadn't really looked at Justice before and of course went looking when I saw that globe on the cover on Jack's post. Four issues 1955 to 1956, a Manhunt sort of copy with JDM, Gil Brewer, and others. Atlas mags weren't really known for their high level of fiction but these look pretty good. Courtesy of I believe three different pulp scanners I was able to look through all the issues but the first. Some examples of familiar Atlas artists working in a digest style (and I'm not exactly an Atlas expert, so bear with) NMS (not my scans but at least a couple of them are in the people's library). The first issue is not scanned as far as I know. I'd like a copy if the price is reasonable or I will happily trade (though crime digests SHOULD be fairly cheap, don't know how many Goodman sold tho) https://archive.org/details/justice-v-01-n-02-1955-07 https://archive.org/details/justice-n-01-n-03-1955-10 Joe Maneely Burgos, in a scribbly style and in a couple other styles Victor Dowd Paul Reinman (thanks to PMack for the ID when I couldn't make out the sig). This one is hard-boiled af My favorite of the lot - working on tracking down an ID, fill us in if you got it How about this one? there is a signature but it's funky monkey Maneely again? and one last ID needed, I kind of like this

That bottom one is freaky deaky :O