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[Point Five]

And with this acquisition... my evil-clown-shooting-gorilla-in-face cover set is one-and-done.  

[Darwination]

I saw this at Heritage a couple times in this last year.  Truly a WTF cover

I'm wondering if it's a Belarski.

[Point Five]

On 4/30/2024 at 2:17 PM, Darwination said:

I saw this at Heritage a couple times in this last year.  Truly a WTF cover

I'm wondering if it's a Belarski.

The Heritage auction description says cover by Earle Bergey.

 

[Darwination]

I'm not sure it's either.

Edited April 30 by Darwination

[comicjack]

Belarski for me 

[Robot Man]

On 4/30/2024 at 9:54 AM, Point Five said:

And with this acquisition... my evil-clown-shooting-gorilla-in-face cover set is one-and-done.  

Seems like I’ve seen quite a few clown shooting covers in pulps. Maybe not shooting gorillas but shooting in general. I believe I have several. 

[Robot Man]

On 4/30/2024 at 1:39 PM, comicjack said:

Belarski for me 

LOTS of great Belarski covers on pulps and PBs. The master of frightened women. One of my favorite artists. Grab them while you can…

[Darwination]

I was tracking down some Belarskis just last night to put on my pulp huntlist when I realized some of his classic paperback covers are repeats from the pulps.  Some of his best

Oh yes, there are many clowns with guns in the pulps, I recall messaging with @waaaghboss (who I'm tempted to just call Groo :D) about one in an auction grouping recently.  I don't think I have any but I'll post a few images.  This first one was the one at eBay auction recently (sold dirt cheap iirc):

Saunders

Heritage even has the OA for that one

another DD from one of the pulp scanners, Grant Hargis art

Saunders again, this copy is at MCS right now for just under a grand o.O (I'll stick the in my fat "to restore" folder)

Belarski

Belarski again

Saunders

OK, it's been more than a few.  Damn you, Bob.  I'm like a toy you wind up.  Actually most of these were found via the tag system at https://pulpcovers.com/

 That's a great site for cover surfing (and IDs, not rock solid, though), and I totally endorse his methods.

There's a whole bunch of Johnston McCulley Crimson Clown covers on Detective Story, but I'll just post one.  Absolutely f*ckin classic. John Coughlin.  A top ten pulp cover imo, and I'd love to have the issue.  This one's one of my rotating screensavers on my phone.

Be careful of clowning around with guns, though.  James Meese.

Last one, SPACE CLOWNS WITH RAYGUNS. Leo Morey

Mind you, this is only clowns with guns.  There are many other clowns on pulp covers

Edited May 1 by Darwination

[Darwination]

Whoa, went to see if I couldn't find a deeper black image for that Crimson Clown ish I was raving over.  I did find a slightly better copy that was sold last year at Heritage:

Hammer price?

Sold on Apr 13, 2023 for:

$13,200.00

Guess I won't be adding this one to my collection any time soon, egad.

[detective35]

A near perfect copy, from my collection. Has a brand new look to it.

 

Edited May 1 by detective35

[waaaghboss]

 

On 4/30/2024 at 10:24 PM, Darwination said:

Whoa, went to see if I couldn't find a deeper black image for that Crimson Clown ish I was raving over.  I did find a slightly better copy that was sold last year at Heritage:

Hammer price?

Sold on Apr 13, 2023 for:

$13,200.00

Guess I won't be adding this one to my collection any time soon, egad.

Yah I remember my jaw hitting the floor on that auction.  Stunning book but out of my league.   

Some more clowns covers, none are mine.

I did get a copy of gay book magazine with a clown cover a bit ago, but the artist forgot to add a gun.

Edited May 1 by waaaghboss

[Darwination]

On 5/1/2024 at 12:36 AM, detective35 said:

A near perfect copy, from my collection. Has a brand new look to it.

 

Look at those reds, woo!

That's an absolute gem.  John Coughlin isn't an artist that stands out to me very often, but that's some profound tears of a clown business right there.

[Sarg]

On 4/30/2024 at 7:52 PM, Darwination said:

Last one, SPACE CLOWNS WITH RAYGUNS. Leo Morey

 

Space clowns with ray guns. The pulps had the craziest ideas.

[Paul © ® ⚽️💙™]

Slab just in to go with the raw.....

 

[johnenock]

Just got this pretty cool devil cover:

 

[ThothAmon]

On 5/1/2024 at 1:36 AM, detective35 said:

A near perfect copy, from my collection. Has a brand new look to it.

 

Those reds. Thank goodness the eclipse glasses were still handy. 

[Hibou]

On 5/1/2024 at 1:36 AM, detective35 said:

A near perfect copy, from my collection. Has a brand new look to it.

 

 Amazing!!

[comicjack]

On 5/1/2024 at 4:43 PM, johnenock said:

Just got this pretty cool devil cover:

 

That is a great Devil cover 

[OtherEric]

On 5/3/2024 at 9:29 AM, comicjack said:

That is a great Devil cover 

My second favorite Argosy Devil cover, although I probably am not familiar with all of them.

My #1:

[Point Five]

Whoa!