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Muy Caliente - Show Your Spicy Side
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Joshua33

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On 11/24/2021 at 6:39 PM, Pulpvault said:

Great issue.  Here's the original Ward cover for it.

ward spicy mystery march 1941.JPG

That's just unreal, isn't it? Ward is my favorite!!! I love Parkhurst, Brundage, Bolles, DeSoto and Saunders... but Ward is the Baker/Frazetta of pulps imo. Thank you for sharing this. How beautiful she is.

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FoggyNelson

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On 11/24/2021 at 11:11 PM, Joshua33 said:

That's just unreal, isn't it? Ward is my favorite!!! I love Parkhurst, Brundage, Bowles, DeSoto and Saunders... but Ward is the Baker/Frazetta of pulps imo. Thank you for sharing this. How beautiful she is.

Way ahead of their time with that artwork😷👍‼️

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The October 1941 issue of Spicy Mystery, shown here, featured a cover by H.J. Ward.  The cover was swiped two months later, with artist Harold Bennett's take on it gracing the cover of the December 1941 issue of the Canadian pulp, Sure-Fire Detective.  That Canadian pulp reprinted a Black Hood pulp story, though it's not mentioned or depicted on the cover.

Spicy Mystery 1941 10 Ward.jpg

Sure-Fire Detective 1941 12 Black Hood.jpg

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Back in 2003, my book on the spicy pulps, "Uncovered: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulps," was published by Adventure House.  Hard to believe that was 18 years ago!  The book contains over 400 spicy pulp covers in full color, along with around 40,000 words of text detailing the history of the spicy pulps.  I thought that I'd long since sold out of any copies I had, but in cleaning our basement I found an unopened box of them.  If you're interested in buying a copy, or learning more, shoot me a message.  They're $40 postage paid (media mail) within the U.S.; shipping charges to other countries will vary.

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