Popular Post Sauce Dog Posted January 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2022 The only two golden age pulps I own, and hope to maybe one day complete the entire run from that year. His work has been getting noticed by many of the 20-somethings I know who are becoming interested in the pinups he did. OtherEric, Pat Calhoun, comicjack and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted September 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 24, 2023 PassDaMike, OtherEric, jimjum12 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 Oh, Enoch. pmpknface, tth2, jimjum12 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 My wife was a lepidopterist in a former life, so I like to collect "Butterfly" covers, a couple from Bolles: pmpknface, Pat Calhoun, jimjum12 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 On 9/26/2023 at 9:27 PM, Darwination said: My wife was a lepidopterist in a former life, so I like to collect "Butterfly" covers Off topic for this thread specifically, but since it's a direct response to your post: Have you seen this Playboy before? Darwination 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted September 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2023 (edited) Ha, no! I've never even seen it. And I had a stepdad with a bunch of that era of Playboy, too. Great mags. These topics are only half as fun as getting a good response as far as topicality goes, and anyways it says "fine pin-up art" too My wife worked for the Monarch Watch, so your cover is more appropriate than the first with the Tiger Swallowtails. But speaking of the Tiger Swallowtail an image I was recently working with from my collection Henry Clive More Clive! American Master. Edited September 27, 2023 by Darwination Surfing Alien, Pat Calhoun, Yorick and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 On 7/29/2020 at 7:23 PM, HRCostigan said: I stumbled across this book for $100 in a bookstore. Found out it had a repo cover Darwination and Mmehdy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 On 9/27/2023 at 9:19 AM, waaaghboss said: I stumbled across this book for $100 in a bookstore. Found out it had a repo cover wow, what a cover. too bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted September 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2023 Those Cupid's Capers are amazing. It's no wonder collectors go nuts when they see them. I've only got one, but she's a beauty lpsunburst, pmpknface, waaaghboss and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Darwination Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 So this edition from my collection. A puzzler. I even corresponded with Jack Raglin who runs the Bolles Blog and has written about Bolles in Illustration about it before posting here, as I wanted to get the attribution right. Bolles has some similar cowgirls, but there are oddities. First off, Snappy is without a doubt Earle Bergey's domain: http://www.philsp.com/mags/snappy.html Almost every single edition in that 1929-1938 run is EKB. I see a Greiner at May 1933, but every other cover is EKB and often signed. Except this one. Jack suspects the art director may have cropped the painting funny at the bottom. But there's also some oddities in the painting itself. Jack recognizes this as a very odd case as well as I do. Yet, there's the Bolles fingers, the underboob (not sure a refined way to put that, sorry lol), the clothing details, the face, the similarity to his other cowgirls, etc. But I've posted it! Both of us are sure Bolles is the main artist despite misgivings. I don't like to make attribution at 80 percent sure, but there it is. waaaghboss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 This one's not a full magazine but a proof from Bolles' own files for the July 1934 issue. Pat Calhoun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 MMkay, so the Bolles thread. Yep, we'll keep it Bolles-centric, but I do like this other part "and other fine pin-up art". Pat Calhoun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 On 10/19/2023 at 9:41 AM, Darwination said: MMkay, so the Bolles thread. Yep, we'll keep it Bolles-centric, but I do like this other part "and other fine pin-up art". So many great covers on those American Weekly's. I bought several of the David Wright covers and I have far too many others on my feebay watch lists (love those Van Buren covers). They are not aging too well (newsprint). I need a nice Henry Clive example, but I think I'll go after one of his slick magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 (edited) On 10/19/2023 at 1:42 PM, Yorick said: So many great covers on those American Weekly's. I bought several of the David Wright covers and I have far too many others on my feebay watch lists (love those Van Buren covers). They are not aging too well (newsprint). I need a nice Henry Clive example, but I think I'll go after one of his slick magazines. The older oversized issues are absolutely amazing when unfolded and in nice shape like this one. It had a circulation of 50 MILLION at one time but the surviving specimens usually look a bit rough I just hope that there's a nice collection of the physical copies somewhere, incredible covers, tons of great illustration, fiction and neat articles to boot. Here's a centerfold of one I scanned today (1945-08-26) for the pulpscans group for an idea of the design and production values: And this is one of the smaller issues which are dwarfed by the older ones (which wont even fit on an A3 scanner): Edited October 19, 2023 by Darwination Yorick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 (edited) Helen likes her stories Snappy Edited October 22, 2023 by Darwination Yorick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 Cross post from the Halloween thread, but I'll double up here Robot Man and Pat Calhoun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 I could live with this copy of this earlier Pep if it didn't have staining in the skin tones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 waaaghboss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 OtherEric and Pat Calhoun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...