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[Darwination]

I'm feeling guilty posting so many of these here because they might be off-topic.  I consider them pulp, but they're not fiction pulps.  The school of art is a little different, too. 

I don't hunt them like I used to, but I do keep an eye out.  There's always been interest in them even if I can't start to compare the market for magazines to the insanity of comics.  The flipside is that comics have been treated very well in terms of storage and simply holding on to them which isn't true of magazines.  On the other hand, any schmoe that looks at one of these great painted covers knows they are pretty cool and will separate them out from beater lots.

They're some of my favorite books in my collection because of the girls and also because they are so damn big and beautiful.  I also like that a lot of the women are more than just victims which isn't the case in a lot of comic and paperbook and pulp art.  George Gross' smirking prostitutes aren't denied their humanity or character just because of their low station.   

Even a tied girl without much agency like this one isn't exactly screaming in terror
 

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[FoggyNelson]

Very revealing dress above🥰🥰😊

[Darwination]

 

[waaaghboss]

Went to put this book i just got on the shelf, turns out I already had a copy 🙃 

[Darwination]

A rough and gritty copy, just like these girls

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[detective35]

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[Darwination]

My copy's just a little rough.  Sort of like this redhead

[johnenock]

A few new ones:

 

[Surfing Alien]

A couple of killer Amazing Detective mags with painted covers by Driben and Saunders. I have the Cardwell Higgins covers so have most of the painted covers now. A sweet little series.

 

 

[Darwination]

Nice copies, too!

I just got this one this week.

I was gonna post on the Timely golden age thread because I love to bomb the insane high grade comic collectors in there with my grubby magazines, but I'll just stick 'er here 

The first ever Goodman true crime mag, Complete Detective Cases v02n01 December 1939:

The first volume of the mag was all fiction in pulp format including a famous Saunders cover

Joe Simon took over Art Director duties on Complete Detective cases after a handful of issues and greatly improved the graphic design of the magazine and also used Jack Kirby and other Timely/Atlas artists in the process.

More info (on a post which just happens to run down the painted covers SA is talking about) on an old blog post from Doc V:

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2014/11/martin-goodman-painted-cover-true-crime.html

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/3z5mbiokkaez0n9/Complete_Detective_Cases_v02n01_%281939-12.Postal%29_%28missing_back_covers%29_%28Darwin%29.cbr/file

https://archive.org/details/complete-detective-cases-v-02n-01-1939-12.-postal-missing-back-covers-darwin-ia

My copy is missing the back cover (despite the auction saying "complete" and there was no mention of detached front either - cheap enough I didn't throw a stink even if I'm sure the seller knew better),  so if anybody haz and can scan those two pages for me, I can complete the digital archive - 

Here's a splash while I'm at it.  You know I like my reefer

 

Edited January 12 by Darwination

[Darwination]

After the kind of drab look of that first Goodman true crime, I ended up going back and looking at an older scan of an issue I sold recently. Absolute time machine copy, too.  Like 10 bucks in open auction, muh bad. 

This is the November 1940 issue.  I'm not sure if this is Joe Simon's first issue as Art Director, but pretty much instantly the design explodes with all sorts of cool graphics and illos and overlapping photos, etc.  There was a significant improvement in the paper quality and production, too.  I stuck the scan up at the IA just now.

 

Kirby/Simon, love this page

More Kirby, more cool design

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/koqxduy8siya1m5/Complete_Detective_Cases_v02n06_%281940-11.Postal%29_%28Darwin-IA%29.cbr/file

https://archive.org/details/complete-detective-cases-v-02n-06-1940-11.-postal-darwin-ia

 

Edited January 12 by Darwination

[Surfing Alien]

On 1/12/2024 at 12:47 AM, Darwination said:

the design explodes with all sorts of cool graphics and illos and overlapping photos, etc.  There was a significant improvement in the paper quality and production, too.

Definitely very cool interiors. Here's one from the 1942 Amazing above, Simon was gone but the layouts are still cool and usually one or two great illos. This one is killer. 

I'll definitely be looking out for more, even though I don't generally collect photo cover mags, these have a great look to them and the interiors are very cool.

[Darwination]

The Secret History of Marvel has a good survey of artwork from these (and the pulps), but it's still just a fraction of what can be found.  I'm the same way about painted covers (gtfo of my collecting area, bastards) but there's great interior art and layout as well.  I daresay that Goodman's true crime magazines were much better than average which is absolutely not true of many of his other types of magazines.

[OtherEric]

I've probably shown this one before, but since we're talking Goodman magazines:

[Darwination]

On 1/12/2024 at 5:52 PM, OtherEric said:

I've probably shown this one before, but since we're talking Goodman magazines:

It took me a second to figure out what is going on with the head in the background.  The yellow menace is always sneaking up from behind and out of the floorboards

Had a feeling, but double-checked, Anatole Field there is Anatole Feldman.  That's the only noted used of that psuedonym, but he used Anthony Field a good number of times.

New one in this week, the last issue of Fawcett's Daring Detective Tabloid, I don't know the artist:

Some nice graphics and content within.

It looks like it started as an actual tabloid???  Those first issues must be tough.

http://www.pofoz.com/magazines/true-crime/titles/daring-detective/index.html

Edited January 13 by Darwination