Darwination

There's a weird, bright exuberance to a lot of these horrible scenes on the Belarski covers ><
I like this one that showed up this week on a cover to cover scan at the pulpscans group where one of these poor Belarski girls terrorizes a man for once.

Pep Stories v05n06 (1929-06.King) cover Bolles
Do excuse my grubby copy.  When it comes to scarce girlies, I will take any copy I can get.
No terror here, this shark seems as tame as a puppy dog

I'm 99.9% sure the painter here isn't Kirkpatrick, but I'm no closer to a name than when I started digging. 
The same painter did show up recently over on non-comics mags for an Ace confessions mag called Secrets here. I'm not sure the issue below is the same painter but you can see it's another source of these paintings besides the love pulps mentioned previously (some of the covers at the link 100 percent are the same painter, though)


 

I'm 99.9% sure the painter here isn't Kirkpatrick, but I'm no closer to a name than when I started digging. 
The same painter did show up recently over on non-comics mags for an Ace confessions mag called Secrets here. I'm not sure the issue below is the same painter but you can see it's another source of these paintings besides the love pulps mentioned previously (some of the covers at the link 100 percent are the same painter, though)


 

Consecutive issues

I'm 99.9% sure the painter here isn't Kirkpatrick, but I'm no closer to a name than when I started digging. 
The same painter did show up recently over on non-comics mags for an Ace confessions mag called Secrets here. I'm not sure the issue below is the same painter but you can see it's another source of these paintings besides the love pulps mentioned previously (some of the covers at the link 100 percent are the same painter, though)


 

A cool pulp!  Five issues in the run, some of them seem harder to find than others.  This one has a story from Otis Adelbert Kline that's piqued my interest.
I've always appreciated that Ziff-Davis chose to put art on the back cover on select pulps instead of an ad, and this is a fun one.
I had this issue but some gentleman at an AFB in California recently purchased it from me (I think for the Alfred Bester as he bought another pulp with Bester, too). An edited image:
 
 

A cool pulp!  Five issues in the run, some of them seem harder to find than others.  This one has a story from Otis Adelbert Kline that's piqued my interest.
I've always appreciated that Ziff-Davis chose to put art on the back cover on select pulps instead of an ad, and this is a fun one.
I had this issue but some gentleman at an AFB in California recently purchased it from me (I think for the Alfred Bester as he bought another pulp with Bester, too). An edited image:
 
 

A cool pulp!  Five issues in the run, some of them seem harder to find than others.  This one has a story from Otis Adelbert Kline that's piqued my interest.
I've always appreciated that Ziff-Davis chose to put art on the back cover on select pulps instead of an ad, and this is a fun one.
I had this issue but some gentleman at an AFB in California recently purchased it from me (I think for the Alfred Bester as he bought another pulp with Bester, too). An edited image:
 
 

A cool pulp!  Five issues in the run, some of them seem harder to find than others.  This one has a story from Otis Adelbert Kline that's piqued my interest.
I've always appreciated that Ziff-Davis chose to put art on the back cover on select pulps instead of an ad, and this is a fun one.
I had this issue but some gentleman at an AFB in California recently purchased it from me (I think for the Alfred Bester as he bought another pulp with Bester, too). An edited image:
 
 

v01n01, a set of magical letters and numbers to the magazine collector. Or as CGC would say Ginger Stories #1, baha haha ha   Not high grade but she's my girl

A cool pulp!  Five issues in the run, some of them seem harder to find than others.  This one has a story from Otis Adelbert Kline that's piqued my interest.
I've always appreciated that Ziff-Davis chose to put art on the back cover on select pulps instead of an ad, and this is a fun one.
I had this issue but some gentleman at an AFB in California recently purchased it from me (I think for the Alfred Bester as he bought another pulp with Bester, too). An edited image:
 
 

There's a weird, bright exuberance to a lot of these horrible scenes on the Belarski covers ><
I like this one that showed up this week on a cover to cover scan at the pulpscans group where one of these poor Belarski girls terrorizes a man for once.

When I got back into collecting vintage paperbacks 7 years ago, a distant, yet seemingly unreasonable goal was getting back the 3 rarities I most regretted selling back in the 90's 😪
Well, with the recent addition of the Studio Pocket Edition of Jim Thompson's "Sins of the Fathers", the trio is back in the fold. All three of my original copies were pulled out of the ceiling-high stacked boxes in the  "store" of Mike, the Greenwich Village beatnik who sold his collection out of his basement apartment, many to me, in the early 1980's when I roamed West 4th Street in search of paper treasure.
These 3 are the "Top Of The Bill" as far as I'm concerned in the vintage paperback world as far as the combo of rarity and desirability. YMMV

 

While we're on the topics of nudity and violence... 

Robert Bonfils cover published in 1970 for Greenleaf Classics.

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Have you ever managed to identify the artist or artists on some of these Aces?  A lot of them (if not all) are reprints of love pulp covers.  It tends to be one of the hardest areas in pulp to get good artist IDs in, but once you get a name to put with a style, it's very doable. A couple from your post on the last page:


It looks to me like the artist on these two was painting for Ace for a good number of years.
Or the one above is from the pulps, too, April of the same year:

Alec Redmond was there in early 40s and Bradshaw Crandell was there for at least a bit in the mid-40s.  Crandell would sign his name to Cosmopolitan (and most things very readily) but apparently wasn't signing any love pulp (as is often the case when slick level artists would "slum" it down in the pulps).  With the rise of the photo cover and decline of glamour paintings on Hollywood mags and the like it's not too surprising that Crandell would do a little pulp work.

Heritage is a little off on the date of the original art:

His mid 40s style is line with some of the Ace mid-40s covers:

I'll get with a lady friend that does work on the romance pulps and see if she knows anything about the Ace artists.  I'd definitely like to know who did the Ten-Story Love Magazine1948-02 /Complete Love comic from 1951-05 Dr. Love has in his avatar.

Another couple from the latest batch back from CGC.

Happy Mother's Day 
Sins of The Fathers (Heed the Thunder) by Jim Thompson. Studio Pocket Edition No. 4. 1952.
A truly rare Jim Thompson pb with spectacular cover art 💞  One of the most sought after vintage pb's.
The artist on this Canadian Studio Pocket is still uncredited after all these years but did such beautiful lines, suggestive yet undefined and artful eye candy.
An old friend just come home. I had a gorgeous copy of this in my first collection that I sold 30 years ago and have been looking for a nice copy since I started collecting again 7 years ago. 
This turns back the clock for me to my college daze since I bought my first copy from Mike, the basement book seller on West 4th Street during my Greenwich Village wanderings when I attended NYU in the early '80's.