The Cambodian blogger Jinja , from Webbed Feet, Web Log, made some interesting discovers in the pulp books universe. Then, as a nice guy does, he blogged the “Pulp Cambodia Novel Covers” through three posts: Uth Roeun, Hul Sophon and Em Satya. I think all the covers are from 1970’s, with styles going from action with romance to historical novels and revolutionary themes. (via PCL)

A nice gallery with covers of all the numbers of Dime Mystery Magazine.

Dime Mystery (Book) Magazine started off as a fairly staid pulp under the name Dime Mystery Book Magazine featuring a full-length “two-dollar novel” and a few short stories. However this was not a successful formula and after only ten issues the publisher, Popular Publications, changed the title to Dime Mystery Magazine, featuring several novelettes and short stories. Even more significantly the emphasis was changed to “weird menace”, which was much more popular and allowed the magazine to continue for a further 144 issues.
n 1950 the name was changed again to 15 Mystery Stories, but it lasted for only five issues under this title before folding in late 1950.

The covers are fantastic: there are monsters, crazy scientists, women with knifes, strong men trying to run away, lots of women tied up, masked men, macabre sects, deformed men, scenes of torture, macabre experiments, skulls and mummies. All the elements you need in a thriller story. By they covers, my impression is their covers were made to also attract BDSM fetishists. (via coisas do arco da velha)

The classic sexy comic books’ Vampirella had a Portuguese version: Zakarella, illustrated by Carlos Alberto Santos. On O Fantástico ilustrado por Carlos Alberto Santos (The fantastic illustrated by Carlos Alberto Santos), there are five covers of this Portuguese version and the original images of them (click on the covers to see them). According to the site in Portuguese:

The infernal (and sculptural) character, which gave the name to the magazine imagined by Roussado Pinto, was a kind of Vampirella with Portuguese manners, and because of lack of opportunities to great adventures, as the American version, she used to punish the troublemakers in Lisbon and its neighbourhood. Each number of Zakarella included a short story by Ross Pynn (pseudonym of Roussado Pinto) with the heroin adventures. The covers and the illustrations of those short stories were created by Carlos Alberto Santos, e good part of the success of this magazine is due to his work. (28 numbers / editions of Zakarella were published over two years)

I hope this so so, and almost literal, translation helps. The covers of the 28 editions published are available at Comics BD Portugal: just keep clicking on the tabs to see all them. BTW, those links are probably NSFW. (via coisas do arco da velha)

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There are some crazy users on Flickr, and crazy means crazy in the best possible way, who like to share vintage images. Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy likes to share “some” stuff: almost six thousand of images divided in 90 sets and counting. It’s a paradise of 1940s and 1950s pictures, navy images from around the world, WWII images, pulp book covers, posters and more memorabilia. Among all those cool stuff, here are a list of suggestions (according to the posts of this blog). (via PCL LinkDump)
- British Posters from the Second World War: A selection of posters issued by various Government and non-Government bodies during the Second World War.
- Der Landser: with four hundred pictures taking during the WWII. Der Landser” was the name given to the ordinary German soldier in the Wehrmacht, and was used during both World Wars. The term is no longer used for German soldiers.
- Fruit & Vegetable Crate Labels: more than three hundred Examples of classic designs from the USA, Canada, Spain and Australia. I love this ad.
- Now read on . . . : Book jacket art. A hilarious collection with several pulp book covers.
- Posters from Occupied Netherlands – World War II. A selection mainly of Nazi and pro-German posters.

- Robert Doisneau: 65 pictures of this master of photography. He dismiss presentations, but just in case Robert Doisneau was a French photographer noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life.
- The Accordion and its role in world peace: 51 pictures of accordion players. Probably just for enthusiasts.
- The Saturday Evening Post: 18 beautiful covers of that classic American magazine.
- Transport & Travel Posters: 259 images of ads, pamphlets and posters.
- US Navy posters: mainly recruiting posters from World Wars I and II.
- Variety, Vaudeville & Circus Acts: Vintage photographs of performers and acts – from variety shows, vaudeville and burlesque shows, and circuses.
- Vintage Advertisements: 149 images of vintage magazine ads, from costumes to food.
- Vintage Advertising Posters: with 72 very pretty images, many of them are also on the “Transport and Travel Posters” set. The collection contains one of those vintage disturbing ads.
- Waves & Navy Nurse Corps Recruiting Posters – World War II, with fourteen posters.

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I never had a science fiction pulp book on my own hands, but in the last years I became an admirer of them, through several sites who kindly shared collections of those vintage books. EC Science Fiction Comics is one of those amusing sites. They have a nice collection of science fiction comic books released by EC Comics.

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books specializing in crime fiction, horror fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the 1950s, until censorship pressures prompted it to concentrate on the seminal humor magazine Mad.

The collection is composed of four galleries: Explore the galleries of cover of Weird Fantasy, Weird Science, Incredible Science Fiction and Weird Science-Fantasy. (via SciFi Scanner)
More posts with sci-fi comic book covers: Life on Mars, The Science Fiction Art of H. W. McCauley,L’univers des Bédés Elvifrance, The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover art, Comics, pulp and sci-fi books, Scans of Eerie Publications and Star Trek Comics.

Before start clicking in any link of this post take a deep breath and relax. You should use a safe browser with pop-up blocker. Now you are ready to visit 70’s Italian Pulp Art. The main page of the site has several banners as a way to pay the use of broadband, of course, and they can scare you. But if you are a pulp art fan try not to worry. I assure the site worth a visit, even having only small images. NSFW. (PCL LinkDump)
If you enjoy the images, visit the excellent and also NSFW blog The Groovy Age of Horror.

Life on Mars: An Exhibit of Classic Science Fiction Magazine Covers and Interior Illustrations from the 1920s-1950s. Cool stuff, with a small, but nice, collection of covers and illustrations of pulp sci-fi magazines. They have tripods, green men, robots and other amazing creatures from beyond, all that a good cover of a pulp book about Mars should have.

When I was thinking I wouldn’t find new covers of vintage pulp fiction books, one more time Flickr surprises me with a group devoted to it: Pulp Fiction. There aren’t heat discussions – until now, but it fits my expectations for images. It has more than 900 images on the pool for now, with tons of fresh and new covers for me, from sci-fi to naughty covers.

Published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since October 10, 1952, the Italian magazine Urania is the longest life science fiction series published in Italy. The site Mondo Urania has an amazing collection with tons of Urania covers, resumes and and its spin-off series.
Some of the collections of series available there: Urania Argento – a monthly series started in 1995 with impressive covers by Oscar Chichoni; Urania Blu – four editions with Isaac Asimov’s articles; Urania Fantasy – was a monthly series dedicated to fantasy titles; and Urania Collezione – started in 2003 and is still monthly outgoing.
Don’t forget to check the first covers of original Urania, if you enjoy the classic pulp book covers.

First covers were by Carlo Jacono and Kurt Caesar, but the «golden era» of the magazine was marked by the renowned Dutch painter Karel Thole, who introduced his unparalleled, bizarre medley of surrealism, horror, classical citations and sense of humour. Other outstanding cover artists who worked for Urania were Vicente Segrelles from Spain (1988-1991) and Oscar Chichoni from Argentina (1990s). Current cover artist is Franco Brambilla.

The site Grimm’s Hangar, the tales of pulp and glory, presents a great collection of vintage figures accompanied by cool scenarios by Grimm. But his number one theme is Pulp gaming. All those fun stuff is divided by themes, from the darkest Africa to the French-Indian War, passing through Vikings, Cthulhu and Pulp. And now you know why I’m posting this: thirteen galleries under the pulp theme, composing a tiny wonderful universe full of adventures. That’s fine for me.