It would be a Crime not to post your Detective Pulps 6 6

[Darwination]

That's a cool Ace logo on the second mag "Every One An Ace - an MP Magazine." The MP is for Magazine Publishers.  I'm not sure that logo ran very long or on what magazines, as this is the first time I've seen it.  Looks like Headquarters Detective ran for six issues and continued numbering from Sky Birds.  No relation to the Headquarters Detective true crime mag that Macfadden published starting in 1940/

[Surfing Alien]

Did someone say Headquarters Detective?  August 1941 is red hot

[Darwination]

Love that one, haven't seen it before.  Looks like there's a few years straight of painted covers after the first few photo covers.

I've been trying to get my hands on the first issue for a scan, as it played an important role in precedent re: obscenity on the newsstands:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/333/507/

 

I don't own this issue but did restore the cover from a digital image, Allen Anderson (prolific pulp painter but mebbe most famous for a couple of his Planets, did some nice comics covers for Ziff-Davis, too):

 

[dickymoe74]

Great Norman Saunders cover!!!!

On 5/16/2024 at 2:03 PM, Darwination said:

Love that one, haven't seen it before.  Looks like there's a few years straight of painted covers after the first few photo covers.

I've been trying to get my hands on the first issue for a scan, as it played an important role in precedent re: obscenity on the newsstands:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/333/507/

 

I don't own this issue but did restore the cover from a digital image, Allen Anderson (prolific pulp painter but mebbe most famous for a couple of his Planets, did some nice comics covers for Ziff-Davis, too):

 

 

[Darwination]

Disturbing!  And I don't know if I'd have pegged it right away for a Saunders without his signature right there.

[dickymoe74]

Detective Tales had some real nice cover art, so much good stuff.....

[Darwination]

Love the first one.  These are both Tom Lovell who started out working on the Hersey pulps in the early 30s but really started to hit his stride on covers for Popular around this time showing all sorts of chops in the details and composition.

This is my restore from a recent Heritage auction.  They even had the good sense to put it as the frontispiece for the auction.

Fellow pulp scanner Saskia worked this one:

He "graduated" to the slicks pretty quickly, doing mostly interior illustration for The American, Cosmopolitan, Liberty, McCall's and others.  It's a shame he didn't get more cover work up in the big leagues because he was really good at it.  Did some great illustration in a variety of mediums, though. Here's a couple fellow magazine scanner Steve has in his Flickr gallery:

I'm a softie, I like his romance art, here's a couple from Kelly Hicks at Flickr:

After the slicks died down, he went back to a bit of rougher stuff in magazines like True but finished out his career doing commissions and painting westerns scenes.  There's a few of his 70s Western paintings that have sold for six figures at Heritage, but I'd prefer something like one of these hanging on my wall

Edited May 19 by Darwination

[dickymoe74]

On 5/19/2024 at 1:44 AM, Darwination said:

Love the first one.  These are both Tom Lovell who started out working on the Hersey pulps in the early 30s but really started to hit his stride on covers for Popular around this time showing all sorts of chops in the details and composition.

This is my restore from a recent Heritage auction.  They even had the good sense to put it as the frontispiece for the auction.

Fellow pulp scanner Saskia worked this one:

He "graduated" to the slicks pretty quickly, doing mostly interior illustration for The American, Cosmopolitan, Liberty, McCall's and others.  It's a shame he didn't get more cover work up in the big leagues because he was really good at it.  Did some great illustration in a variety of mediums, though. Here's a couple fellow magazine scanner Steve has in his Flickr gallery:

I'm a softie, I like his romance art, here's a couple from Kelly Hicks at Flickr:

After the slicks died down, he went back to a bit of rougher stuff in magazines like True but finished out his career doing commissions and painting westerns scenes.  There's a few of his 70s Western paintings that have sold for six figures at Heritage, but I'd prefer something like one of these hanging on my wall

AMAZING!!  You did a wonderful job on those covers!!  Ive always loved both covers!!!  Nice Work!!!  All are AMAZING!!!

[dickymoe74]

Here's some more Detective Pulps.........

[Point Five]

On 5/19/2024 at 5:32 AM, dickymoe74 said:

This cover is great! I love the skull chess pieces.

That trio sure looks familiar...

[dickymoe74]

On 5/19/2024 at 4:46 AM, Point Five said:

This cover is great! I love the skull chess pieces.

That trio sure looks familiar...

Very Nice!!!  Love this one..........

[dickymoe74]

Detective Story Magazine had so many............

[Darwination]

[dickymoe74]

On 5/22/2024 at 9:36 PM, Darwination said:

I don't have any Mammoth Detective Pulps.  Never seen this issue, I really like this one!!!

[dickymoe74]

Strange Detective Mysteries, love this one....

[dickymoe74]

Oh, got to share this Norman Saunders Detective cover!

[comicjack]

On 5/18/2024 at 2:02 AM, dickymoe74 said:

Great Norman Saunders cover!!!!

 

Great cover

[dickymoe74]

American and French editions of a cool Skeleton Nick Carter Pulp.

[Darwination]

[AnkurJ]

Picked this one up recently. Love this cover!