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[Yorick]

On 4/14/2024 at 12:50 PM, Darwination said:

Mucha, right?

Nope.  An imitator of the era.  I should look for a signature...

Here's a Mucha:

Metallic inks so the gold (can't see it in the pic) really shines.  I just saw one of these sell on feebay for 1k!  NICE.  I think those collectors are seeking Conan Doyle, but I can't be sure...

[Darwination]

Gotta be, though it always helps when contained in such a pretty package.  I'm thinking I've got some Doyle in turn of the Century Cosmo and Collier's I should check the value on

A gent at pulpscans has been running down and analyzing all of his work in the Strand and has put together quite the collection of his nearly complete works.

Nice cover!  That's one I *wouldn't* have pegged as Mucha, but I admit I know him mostly from what I see on art noveau posters and graphics.

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[Yorick]

On 4/3/2024 at 4:52 PM, Darwination said:

You manage to find many issues? 

 

On 4/7/2024 at 10:24 AM, Yorick said:

I know whereabouts I've hid them

Acckkkkk!  I only had a half dozen in that pile...  still, some nice covers.  I think I have the aviatrix cover detached and in a portfolio somewhere...  If I run into it, I'll take a picture.

My FAVORITE Benda:

Nice Armstrong with sweet yellow ink:

[Yorick]

Some other goodies in those piles...

 

[Yorick]

Dan Smith and Alphons Mucha covers

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[pmpknface]

On 4/23/2024 at 10:55 PM, Darwination said:

 

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The man himself, Bernarr was awfully proud of that hair of his .  The mag changes title and format at least a few times.

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[Jayman]

Ace put out some comics with nice women on them too.

[Darwination]

I've been trying to identify a painter from the late 40s for Ace lately and that one may be the one I'm looking at.  The Ace comics prices in high grade for some of them been going nuts as evidenced by the monied freaks in the romance threads snatching them up and showing their wares.  A hint to any that wander over to this little corner of the forum is that you can find "first use" of many of those covers on the Ace love pulps (which were mostly edited by Wynn's wife).  Well, if you can find them "in grade".  They tend to be far cheaper but also beat down and kept even more poorly than the romance comics.

But Ace had painted covers on magazines like the ones above which I group as "women's true story/confessions mags," too. Ace switched to photo covers at some point in the early 50s like happened across all the magazine genres, but  some of the photo covers when you find them in good shape can have *great* girls (stories are fun, too).  None of these below are mine (but I'm sure I'll share my own examples of this type of magazine in here sometime, it's a genre that spanned the decades.  Ace was big into them but Goodman sold a boatload, too).  Excuse the spammery but I just grabbed a bunch of covers in a moment of interest and thought I'd share some good ones.  "Secrets" from Ace was the title I was looking at and I'm gonna show a bunch to demonstrate the crossover with the Ace comics covers.

These first couple aren't actually Ace but Merit out of Ohio (Jack Dinsmore) - they had Hot Dog as humor digest and maybe Funny Stories (?) which was girlie pulp adjacent.  Phil S-P at Galactic Central has this title as 1922-1923, but I've just found many later examples, so maybe I'll have to try and index it for him sometime.

How good is this?  I'd pick this up in a second for the right price or in good shape "The Devil's Needle - Confession of a Dope Fiend"

Anyways, Ace's Secrets 1936 to 2011.  That's one *very* successful magazine of a variety many don't think of when it comes to the history of U.S. periodicals. Those familiar with the Ace comics will see the same painters at work.  The artwork imo is a cut above a lot of what you'd find in the downmarket magazines

That last one is a straight stunner, woo! But the photo covers can be good, too.  You can't tell me these covers were meant for only women, no way, jose.

Great stuff.  One last one, a Goodman jobber.  If this doesn't scream "male gaze" I don't know what does

 

[Yorick]

On 4/25/2024 at 10:40 PM, Darwination said:

Umm, please don't set me on fire. 

Those Secrets are stunning.  Gonna have to search for a few...

On 4/26/2024 at 10:51 AM, Darwination said:

 

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