Lurid Pulp Book Covers

Lurid Pulp Book Covers
Classic works of literary fiction have existed as pulps from the very beginning of pulp—the new paperback publishers of the 1940s and 50s printed them right along with classic crime and some genuinely lowbrow (and sometimes quite lurid) new novels, often commissioning the very same artists to design their covers.
Sep 26, 2024 - Paperbacks used to have painted covers -- almost without exception. Many of these artists were very skilled, but, given the means by which their work was disseminated, where all too unappreciated. These are some of my favorites. See more ideas about pulp art, pulp fiction, pulp fiction art.
Books The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction Pulp cover artists recognized the American appetite for lurid and violent imagery, and the Wolfsonian is exploring the social issues embedded in ...
We're embracing the summer heat by highlighting our steamiest pulp-paperback book covers. Pulp fiction is typically associated with crime, romance, adventure, mystery, and science fiction genres, and the eye-catching covers are now recognized as a distinctive mid-twentieth century art form.
The artwork designed for the covers sold millions of issues, tantalizing readers with depictions of crime, sexuality and violence. The lurid covers, often featuring femme fatale women or male heroes were targeted toward young white men, and can be considered a precursor to the characters in American comic books.
Pulp Fiction Competitors Meanwhile, over in England, the founder of Penguin books, Allen Lane, got wind of de Graff's Pulp Fiction success and immediately set up a publishing press in the States that he called American Penguin, with titles from authors such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Hank Janson (aka Stephen Frances).
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Twentieth century pulp fiction democratised literature and contained within it a rich, dynamic world of crime, intrigue, sensuality and melodrama all rolled into one. It is interesting to observe the gender and sexual politics that are portrayed in the covers of these pulp novels.
"The covers [of these now-iconic pulp fiction books] exult in their lurid and lascivious detail, promising in their sex and gore and cacophony of colours, a wild thrill ride inside their pages and offering up the promise of violence as a promise of pleasure," says Breuck.
The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behavior, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. With their lurid covers and wild, action-packed plots, these books reveal as ...
Pulp fiction enthusiast Sarah Berry unearths a pack of dirty vintage paperback covers. I've always had a love for the old and the forgotten. These yellowed pages, too often tossed aside and sold ...
Pulp fiction is perhaps the only genre as beloved for its cover art as for its prose. And rightly so: Classic pulp covers are glorious and garish,...
Pulp Fiction is a term used to describe the mass-market paperbacks that proliferated during the early 1900's. Written for the general entertainment of the mass audience, most of these were fantastic, escapist fiction, depicting bigger-than-life heroes, crime, and exotic places. Looking at these titles through a twenty-first century lens, many of them are now considered racist, or ...
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A feisty redhead is caught in a private moment in this voyeuristic and menacing published pulp painting that was used as the cover of Ecstasy Books #15 "Wanton By Night." The image is filled with classic pulp iconography, from the scantily-clad femme fatale hurryingly drawing down her shade in the close confines of urban apartment […]
Covers of classic lurid pulp magazines; Science Fiction, Fantasy, Love, Mystery, Detective, Horror. Strictly story-based magazines, but no westerns or sports unless they are also pinup/dame covers; also particularly not paperback books, hardcovers, character series, or comics.
The genre dates from the 1880s, but the lurid covers reached their heights and depths in the Depression, wallowed in every kind of evil and shamelessly exploited gender, racial, and ethnic bias.
I've been searching for a bit for a collection of pulp covers in the public domain, but I'm finding everything except the kind of covers posted here. The trashy detective novels, the sexcapades novels, over sexed James bond stand in novels.
The artwork designed for the covers sold millions of issues, tantalizing readers with depictions of crime, sexuality and violence. The lurid covers, often featuring femme fatale women or male heroes were targeted toward young white men, and can be considered a precursor to the characters in American comic books.
The target audience for these books was usually young, white men, and the lurid covers that featured male heroes and helpless or femme fatale women can be seen as a precedent to the character patterns of American comic books. The artists in the pulp industry were often talented and visually innovative, yet mostly overlooked by the art world.
The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages filled with lurid or exploitative stories and sensational cover art. Pulp covers were printed in color on higher-quality (slick) paper. They were famous for their half-dressed damsels in distress, usually awaiting a rescuing hero. Cover art played a major part in the marketing of pulp magazines.
Description Paperback Cover ArtistGaslight Books#128, #131, and #133 Sleaze Paperback Cover Painting Illustration Original Art (Gaslight Books, c. 1960s). Gaslight Books is one of the significant short-lived sleaze paperback publishing imprints of the 1960s. These books were known for their lurid covers and boundary-pushing takes on taboo subjects.
Columns > Published on September 21st, 2012 LURID: Books, Covers, Judgment - Top Ten Horror Designs LURID: vivid in shocking detail; sensational, horrible in savagery or violence, or, a twice-monthly guide to the merits of the kind of Bad Books you never want your co-workers to know you're reading. Do you remember the first time?
The Wolfsonian in Miami Beach is exploring pulp fiction cover art from the 1920s to 1950s, and the social issues embedded in the lurid imagery.
But, alongside the classics and the reprints of hardcover best-sellers, there quickly sprouted up on the racks an apparently inexhaustible profusion of books with racy titles and lurid covers ...
Presented on newsstands alongside scores of glossies, pulp magazines were able to catch the eye of passersby with their colorful, action-packed, scintillating, and often lurid cover art.
These lurid covers frequently depicted scantily clad women restrained and in distress, or in threatening positions of violent power (and often, both) and elicited protest from many readers for their explicit nature.
Stein began to illustrate cover paintings for pulp magazines in 1901. His cover art appeared on All Story, Argosy, The Cavalier, Munsey's, and People's Magazine. During the 1920s he was a cover artist for Clues, Complete Stories, Detective Stories, Far West Illustrated, and Love Story.
Pulp horror magazines are also notable for their sensational and often lurid, full-color cover illustrations. Unlike the rough, uncoated interior pages, pulp covers were printed on slick paper with imagery designed to lure readers.
Sensation novels focused on shocking stories that reflected modern-day anxieties, and were the direct precursors of pulp fiction. [5][6] The first "pulp" was Frank Munsey 's revamped Argosy magazine of 1896, with about 135,000 words (192 pages) per issue, on pulp paper with untrimmed edges, and no illustrations, even on the cover.
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The men on the pulp fiction book covers were muscular, two-fisted, unsmiling and action-eyed. The women were titillating, often partially clothed, dangerous and suggestive.
But pulp covers aren't only reserved for second-rate titles. Classic works of literature have been reimagined in the lurid style, too.
Pulp was a term first applied to the pulp magazines of the early twentieth century, whose covers, on a broader canvas than the paperback, were colourful, lurid, and sensational.
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Mike Ashley's 'The Golden Age of Pulp Fiction' Pulp magazines, initially an American phenomenon, have received a great deal of bad press over the years and are still generally dismissed by many as of little merit. Whilst it is true that during the 1930s there were some appalling pulp magazines of dismal quality, that is not true of most pulps, and indeed in their early years, especially just ...
Hip Pocket Sleaze is an introduction to the world of vintage, lurid adult paperbacks. Charting the rise of sleazy pulp fiction during the 1960s and 1970s and reviewing many of the key titles, the book takes an informed look at the various genres and markets from this enormously prolific era, from groundbreaking gay and lesbian-themed books to the Armed Services Editions. Influential authors ...
The definitive guide online for Pulp Magazines to help you identify and value your antique. Explore antique markings and prices on thousands of Pulp Magazines items.
I couldn't afford those books (highly collectible), but it turned out that lots of cheap paperbacks from the same time period, with equally lurid covers, could be found in the dusty corners of Ann Arbor's many used book stores, often for just a dollar or two. I amassed over 2000 books in just a few years. Then, my collection just sat there.
The lurid art created for paperbacks in the 1960s and '70s includes a cat man superhero surrounded by feral felines, a woman fleeing a cop while cradling a piglet, and a blonde vixen looking back ...
The lurid cover art of Mexican pulp novels is a pop culture revelation. Never before seen in an English or even Spanish-language collection are the often surreal and psychedelic images of extraterrestrials, robots, dinosaurs, dastardly killers, Zorro, Santo, and many other icons from stories involving suspense, mystery, romance and the ...
The majority of the nearly 900 covers are "pulp novels," but you'll also find travel books, text books, and other miscellany. Last month I shared a batch of six vintage book covers, and this post has six more in the image gallery that have interesting art or a lurid title.
Kayo also stocks lit, forgotten magazines, the pulpiest of pulp novels, and a wall's worth of novelizations of TV shows (Space: 1999; Marcus Welby, MD; Welcome Back, Kotter), but what's most fascinating is the lurid parade of lust-mad dames and sin-hearted he-men. And hobo girl, of course.
Classic novels published with lurid pulp covers, 1956 - 1969. Back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, cheap pulp paperback books were common. Evidently soldiers got used to reading army editions during WWII...
What it's about: In the first half of the 20th century, fiction magazines were popular, and were typically printed on cheap paper made from wood pulp (as opposed to the glossy, high-quality ...
This selection come from the "Golden Age" of lesbian pulp fiction between 1950 and 1965, when several hundred lesbian pulp novels were published and sold in their millions. The covers often mixed lurid and sensationalist images with suggestive tag-lines.
A lurid spicy pulp cover oil painting by Allen Anderson created as the cover of the February 1943 edition of Speed Western Stories, Volume #1 Issue #2 (Trojan Publishing, Chicago).
This lurid and bold gouache illustration painting by Fred Rodewald was created as cover art for the January, 1949 edition of Ecstasy Novel Magazine, which printed in full the novella length story "Paula Has A Price!" by pulp author Peggy Gaddis (writing under the pseudonym Perry Lindsay).
Five paperbacks.Last one shown is free because of condition issues.Last photo shows a two inch tear on the cover of "Zarak".All paperbacks are intact no loose covers or pages.General wear.Good condition.Shipped in a box.
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