Darwination Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Pat Calhoun, OtherEric and pmpknface 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Surfing Alien Posted January 11 Popular Post Share Posted January 11 Well, this happened, the December 1934 Film Fun with the classic Motorcycle Siren cover by Bolles. I don't have too many Girlys but wanted this issue for the longest time so was super pumped to get one. It's my favorite Film Fun along with the Snake Charmer. pmpknface, mrwoogieman, johnenock and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 I'll catch what she's throwing I like the sports & music theme covers a lot. pmpknface, johnenock, Pat Calhoun and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Redhead alert, with killer leg art on this one pmpknface, Pat Calhoun, Darwination and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) On 1/10/2024 at 6:13 PM, Surfing Alien said: Well, this happened, the December 1934 Film Fun with the classic Motorcycle Siren cover by Bolles. I don't have too many Girlys but wanted this issue for the longest time so was super pumped to get one. It's my favorite Film Fun along with the Snake Charmer. It's definitely an iconic (and cool) cover, but this was a very surprising auction result early this year. And while I was digging for this result right now I saw this (I knew there were a couple of orignal Bolles coming up in April). WTF https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/american-artist-20th-century-film-fun-probable-cover-watercolor-and-gouache-on-board-11-1-2-x-8/p/8161-23012.s "probable Film Fun cover" on what planet? Cardwell Higgins? The only thing accurate on the whole listing is that some insufficiently_thoughtful_person may pay 700 bucks for whatever this is. Edited January 11 by Darwination Surfing Alien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 On 1/10/2024 at 10:12 PM, Darwination said: It's definitely an iconic (and cool) cover, but this was a very surprising auction result early this year. And while I was digging for this result right now I saw this (I knew there were a couple of orignal Bolles coming up in April). WTF https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/american-artist-20th-century-film-fun-probable-cover-watercolor-and-gouache-on-board-11-1-2-x-8/p/8161-23012.s "probable Film Fun cover" on what planet? Cardwell Higgins? The only thing accurate on the whole listing is that some insufficiently_thoughtful_person may pay 700 bucks for whatever this is. Looks like a nice prelim to me actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) For real. I have seen high grade copies of the best issues fetch before but not like that. Given, it was in an auction where the juices were already flowing. HA seems to do that 🤣 Edited January 11 by Darwination Surfing Alien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 On 1/10/2024 at 4:13 PM, Surfing Alien said: Well, this happened, the December 1934 Film Fun with the classic Motorcycle Siren cover by Bolles. I don't have too many Girlys but wanted this issue for the longest time so was super pumped to get one. It's my favorite Film Fun along with the Snake Charmer. I took a stab at that auction 🙂 Ended up with this book. Pat Calhoun, BriD., Surfing Alien and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 On 1/11/2024 at 5:50 PM, waaaghboss said: I took a stab at that auction 🙂 Ended up with this book. Congrats, that was a nice book too I wanted to go fairly hard at the Siren so couldn't bid on all of them. They went fairly reasonable though imho waaaghboss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 (edited) That series has some very nice covers. I'd note it's a tricky series with some of the IDs. The seahorse cover (absolutely fantastic) is by Walt Otto, as he's got some variations of that W as a signature, but most of he did are unsigned. Blown up from the original painting of March 36: I think the redhead of SA's from the previous issue to the seahorse is him too (love that one as well). Otto's covers on the series are often misidentified as Bergeys, although Bergey did do the v01n01 as well as the end run before a switch to photo covers. There's at least a couple of other mystery artists earlier on in the mix too. Edited January 12 by Darwination waaaghboss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I don't think I have any Spicy Stories so was happy to get these in. April 1933 and April 1934. The interiors are spicier than I imagined - actual nudes and plenty of 'em. Definitely seem like the Playboy of their time. Robot Man, pmpknface and OtherEric 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Surfing Alien Posted January 12 Popular Post Share Posted January 12 I know I didn't have any Silk Stocking Stories (and there's a couple of Cardwell Higgins covers so I will have to get after those eventually since I can't get enough Cardwell Higgins since @Pat Calhoun pointed out his artwork on the Atlas Digests a while back ) September 1937 and December 1937 respectively. You gotta love the playful lil' pup Pat Calhoun, pmpknface, Darwination and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted January 12 Popular Post Share Posted January 12 (edited) Higgins did the full color pin-ups in Goodman's Esquire clones like this one (which is on the scanpile) Here's another in my collection That's January 34, not sure who the publisher is off the top of my head. From my files and not my collection, some more Higgins, he worked in a number of the late-era girlie pulps (think photos/legs) And imagine you've seen this one since you mentioned Higgins over in the Detective thread Edited January 13 by Darwination pmpknface, BriD., Pat Calhoun and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 On 1/12/2024 at 4:27 PM, Surfing Alien said: I don't think I have any Spicy Stories so was happy to get these in. April 1933 and April 1934. The interiors are spicier than I imagined - actual nudes and plenty of 'em. Definitely seem like the Playboy of their time. Spicy is an excellent title, nice covers, illos, above-par stories and decent photography even if it's not always printed well. Girlie photos only in some eras. Started as a large squarebound, later a standard pulp sized saddle-stitch. Originally owned by Frank Armer, sold under financial duress to Harry Donenfeld (who later hit gold with Superman) and a key girlie for him along with Pep Stories in the 30s. This one has two stories of R.A. Burley art within, too. That issue was scanned by my pal and girlie pulp lover, Ufikus, who sadly did not make it through Covid. I'd note here the difference of the paper texture (and I'm giving Ufi credit here by not double checking in my box, could be wrong) between the two illos is that one is on the slick, whiter stock where the photos would be and the other on a pulp page. Dropping here since I don't see it up at the IA. https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/we0p0dltunggnob/Spicy_Stories_1933-04_v08n04.Merwil_%28ufikus-DPP%29.cbz/file Surfing Alien and pmpknface 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BrightSide77 Posted January 12 Popular Post Share Posted January 12 Great covers in this thread! Norman Rockwell-esk really Not sure if these are 'Pulpy' enough for the Pulp club, but definitely risque or fun loving nonetheless. Pat Calhoun, Darwination, Yorick and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 I like the Goodman digests, too, even though don't really collect them. I have a friend that scans the hell out of them, so I thumb through a ton of them. That era of pin-up is eye-catching even if some of the jokes or toons aren't the greatest (and there are some great ones in there, too). There were so many titles over so many years, they must have sold well (and production costs were low). They are kind of interesting that way cuz they sort of managed to find their way on to displays or newsstands where you wouldn't otherwise expect to find semi nekkid girls. Bill Wenzel and Bill Ward sold an amazing amount of covers and illos to those mags over the years, for real. BrightSide77 and Surfing Alien 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Surfing Alien Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 More music & sports themes BriD., pmpknface, Darwination and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
