Tales from the Island of Serendip 4 4

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...and to reiterate, it's great to have complete cover runs for these two titles under two covers.

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Operator 5 is disposed to some goofy helmets.

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1 hour ago, KirbyJack said:

Operator 5 is disposed to some goofy helmets.

It would seem to be a prerequisite for anyone seeking global domination...

 

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You may be on to something.

Attuma is a contender for the title.

Edited January 17, 2021 by KirbyJack

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Here's your hat, what's your hurry?

 

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JOHN A. COUGHLIN

(1885-1943)

 

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John Albert Coughlin was born January 23, 1885 in Chicago, Illinois.

 

In 1900 he took a two-year course at the University of Notre Dame, which is 80 miles east of Chicago. The school was serviced by eight different railroad lines from Chicago. Along with regular business training, he also took classes in drawing and painting from Jobson Emilien Paradis, who had studied in Paris with Gerome. In 1902 he was awarded a commercial diploma.

 

In 1903 he began to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, from which he graduated in 1906. After he completed his training he worked in advertising, which appeared in Chicago publications.

 

In 1912 he moved to New York City, where he opened an art studio at 880 West 181st Street in the Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan. His apartment building was on the corner with Riverside Drive, so his studio had a spectacular view of the Hudson River. This was decades before construction began on the George Washington Bridge, so his art studio was filled with unobstructed sunlight.

 

In 1913 he painted his first pulp cover assignment for Street & Smith's The Popular Magazine. That same year he also painted covers for Harper's Weekly.

 

In 1914 he illustrated The Brown Mouse by Herbert Quick, editor of Farm and Fireside Magazine. He also painted several covers for People's Magazine.

 

He painted the April 24, 1915 cover of The Saturday Evening Post. In October of that same year he created the pulp cover for the first issue of Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. He went on to create almost all of the covers for this same title over the next twenty years. He seems to have done only a couple of covers for the horror pulps.

 

Besides painting covers for The Popular and Detective Story, he did pulp covers for Argosy, Complete Stories, Detective Fiction Weekly, Detective Tales, Real Western, Short Stories, Top-Notch, and Wild West Weekly.

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His cover for the March 7, 1931 issue of Detective Story Magazine is the first painted appearance of The Shadow on a pulp magazine.

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