True Detective MysteriesVol. XII, No. 6. March 1930Publisher: New Metropolitan Fiction, Inc., Dunellen, NJ

Add a piece of art to your wall! Ditch that boring plastic switch cover and treat yourself to something fun, fabulous and unique!! I've devised a way to attach these little beauties with a super-strong magnet instead of screws, which causes less interruption of the image... YAY!! (The magnet will be included with your order.) They are coated with multiple coats of clear glaze, which enhances the image and protects it from harm. These metal switch covers are oversized, so you get a bigger image to enjoy. No need to worry, though... they'll fit the standard size light switches you already have in your home. Single (toggle and rocker) = 3 1/2" x 5" Double = 4 1/2" x 5" Triple = 6 1/2" x 5" ******PLEASE NOTE: Monitors vary... printers vary... individual color perception varies... What does all that mean? It means that the way the images look on your screen may not be *exactly* how they look in real life. They may seem a little darker, they may seem a little brighter, they may seem exactly the same! But don't worry... I won't send anything out unless it looks GREAT!!****** Orders will be shipped 5 to 7 business days after payment confirmation. These are made to order, and the glaze takes time to dry. I will send them out the minute they're ready!! I ship via USPS First Class Mail. If you are in the United States, your postage cost includes tracking and delivery confirmation. Thanks for visiting my shop!!

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Pretty as a Peacock (c.1935). Earle K. Bergey (American, 1901-1952). Throughout the 1930s, Bergey worked freelance for a number of publishing houses. His eye-catching paintings were predominately...

Vintage sleazy paperbacks were chock full of nymphos, wanton women, husband chasers and teenage tramps. Of course, the males are hapless victims, innocently caught under their spell. So, here is a library of lust queens, hussies, and temptresses. Enjoy. "Marcie's planned seduction of young Harry was working perfectly. His view of her nearly exposed breasts and her bare legs was more than enough bait..." The only thing worse than a Flesh Countess.... "Farm Hussy.. (Men Call Her Tramp)"... which I think is worse, although I'm not sure. I just love how the men are just helpless idiots; completely blameless victims of these seductresses. Ah, The Twist - that "sensual dance-craze" that turns innocent youth into lustful wantons.

There's Pop Art and then there's Popp Art... (MAN'S ACTION, July 1962. Cover painting by Walter Popp.) ... Via the Men's Adventure Magazines Facebook group -> www.facebook.com/groups/187984097012/

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The Hard Boiled Pulps both the magazines and later the paperbacks and their associated artworks played a major part in Film Noir and Neo Noir. Like two mirrors placed facing each other the multiple reflections produced in each format infinitely influenced the other in a creative symbiotic relationship. Roughly WWII to the end of the 1960s marked the heyday of the era of Pulp Magazines and Paperbacks. The most significant improvement was the publication of Pocketbook's The Good Earth in 1938, the first paperback with cover art. The art was designed to be an attractive, eye catching lure to the novel within. It wasn't long before publishers discovered that the hardboiled school of writing was the most popular genre. Taking a cue from pulp magazines Black Mask, Argosy, Amazing Stories, Dime Detective, Horror Stories, Spicy Detective, etc., etc., publishers soon discovered that the more dark, salacious, sleazy and suggestive the cover the bigger the sales. Pulp Magazines In the 1950s and 60s paperbacks expanded their market into Beat (beatnik), JD (juvenile delinquent), Drug, Slut, and Hard & Softcore Porn (including all its deviations). Paperback Cover Art The decline came when the publishers towards the end of the 60s either didn't want to pay cover artists anylonger or tried for a more modern look to compete with popular men's and women's magazines using photographic images. These new covers were stripped for the most part (by comparatively unimaginative photographers) of the dark atmospherics associated in the trashy, lurid, suggestive images of old. The continued cost cutting by publishers resulted in the uninteresting, snooze inducing covers of just plain glossy titles with relatively minimalist artwork that predominated the 70s and 80s, examples below.

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This is a 10" x 17" giclée canvas print stretched on a 5/8" wooden stretcher bar and finished with a clear satin polyacrylic varnish to prevent surface scuffing. It is a reproduction of a cover of a vintage pulp paperback cover from my personal collection. Please see the additional photos for examples of completed canvases. FOR MULTIPLE ORDERS PLEASE USE BULK DISCOUNT LISTINGS. http://www.etsy.com/shop/cheeseboyproducts?section_id=13221865 Watermark on web image only. Canvases are custom made to order, so please allow 2 - 3 weeks for delivery. I’m always adding to my collection, so please check the Cheeseboy Products page often for additional new items for sale. (Publishers' names and logos are trademarks of their respective holders.)

Pulp fiction paperbacks sold by the millions, for a dime, in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite their lapel-grabbing, shocking, often tawdry, salacious covers and contents, they’re interesting cultural relics because […]

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The most celebrated bearded lady of the Victorian era began her career in exhibition shortly after she was born in 1865...

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Modern Mechanix & Inventions Magazine v15n06 [1936-04].

Illustration by J Oval. First published in Great Pan, 1962.

Amazing Stories Volume 01 Number 02 (May 1926). Scanned copy of a pulp magazine; missing back cover. Published by Experimenter Publishing Co. and edited by...