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After 1938, when the magazine's editorial offices moved from Chicago to New York City, a new 'decency' standard was imposed (primarily through the efforts of then-mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia) on pulp magazines sold at newsstands, and the nude or semi-nude young women that had been the primary subjects of Brundage's covers were out ...
Good Girl Art (GGA) is a style of artwork depicting women primarily featured in comic books, comic strips, and pulp magazines. [1] The term was coined by the American Comic Book Company, appearing in its mail order catalogs from the 1930s to the 1970s, [2] and is used by modern comic experts to describe the hyper-sexualized version of femininity depicted in comics of the era.
The peak era for these was the era from roughly 1959 until 1986, when, due to the Meese Commission (a contribution by Park Dietz), and the end of a few of the publishers of detective (or "true crime") magazines, the main era of the bondage cover ended, though there were a few issues of Detective Dragnet in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a ...
The Pulp Western: A Popular History of the Western Fiction Magazine in America. Borgo Press. ISBN 0-89370-161-0. Goodstone, Tony (1970). The Pulps: 50 Years of American Pop Culture. Bonanza Books (Crown Publishers, Inc.). ISBN 978-0-394-44186-3. Goulart, Ron (1972). Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazine. Arlington House.
His portrayals of beautiful women in low-cut fashion posed dramatically while being menaced became known as "Mac girls". [6] One his more notable works was the cover of Amazing Stories magazine, July 1943. Editor Raymond A. Palmer was the model for the evil scientist, and Palmer's secretary posed as the futuristic woman holding a gun. [6]
Beebo Brinker is a lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1962 by Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy). It is the last in a series of pulp fiction novels that eventually came to be known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. It was originally published in 1962 by Gold Medal Books, again in 1983 by Naiad Press, and again in 2001 by Cleis Press. Each ...
Stoll Karn is acknowledged for her work in the Pulp Fiction Industry during the 1940s. Karn was one of the few female illustrators working in this field at the time. Karn published over 100 full color covers in pulp magazines during her career. She often drew pictures of young couples or brave soldiers and cowboys or grizzled detectives and ...
Subsequently, Dell Publishing asked him to provide several cover paintings for Sure-Fire Screen Stories and Ace-High Magazine. [8] In August 1934, Ward married Viola Conley, who became his model for all the women in his pulp magazine covers. [9] Eschewing the use of photographs, he painted her directly from life. [9]