AWESOME question: Any vintage pulp covers with heroes that look like Indiana Jones? 3 3

[grendelbo]

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Just found this one in my travels... could use a stray cobra or something but I think it's in the ballpark.  

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[Sarg]

A lot of pith helmets but no fedoras.

Shows how inauthentic Indiana Jones was.

[grendelbo]

 but doesn't this lady look familiar?

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Fedora and dress match. 

[Darwination]

On 6/25/2024 at 8:29 PM, grendelbo said:

 

These are so good. It's almost hard to believe this one isn't direct inspiration

[Point Five]

On 6/25/2024 at 9:39 PM, grendelbo said:

 

 

Yeah, I used to do this all the time back in my 20s. Have cut back in recent years though.   

 

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[Darwination]

I went through so many whip covers last night looking for an Indy analogue - it's wild that the hero never has a whip (outside of the westerns).  Almost always a tormentor of women or a woman tormentor.  The sweat mags have an awful lot of whip covers, and there's a good number of women with whips in sleazy paperbacks, too

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Lots of great stuff in this thread already. You guys rock!   

 

[ChrispyC66]

On 6/25/2024 at 9:19 PM, pmpknface said:

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/indiana-jones-jim-steranko/

FWIW Jim Steranko recounted his concept art meetings with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg during a book signing at HeroesCon last year.

A fun story from that meeting…My friend and I were waiting for our turn to meet with Steranko and was debating if he derived his version of Nick Fury from his own likeness. When we got our turn and was talking to Jim, I told my friend to ask him. Steranko looked at us and said “That’s the stupidest question I ever heard”. Then he proceeded to talk to us for the next 10 minutes about his paintings and concept work for “George”. A memorable encounter for sure.

Edited Thursday at 02:56 AM by ChrispyC66

[Darwination]

The concept art there is definitely more Man of Bronze-ish than Harrison Ford could ever pull off as far as muscle bound or grimacing tough guy.  Ford does manage to handle the ladies' man/failed relationships aspect of the character pretty well, though.

Looking through my files in Argosy and finding not as many as I thought I would.  That mag had some straight up amazing adventure themed covers in the 30s, though.  This one's got the Indy vibe.

[Point Five]

Another 'not quite Indy but kinda Indy-adjacent' cover.