Pulp Project #12
Amazing Stories February 1953
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02.15.07
10.24.06
Pulp Project #11
08.07.06
Pulp Project # 10
Jones: Amazing Stories #5 (Jan. 1951)
Alert Reader Will Carey has kindly pointed me toward VISCO, The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art. And in doing so, he’s renewed my interest in the Pulp Project, which has languished since December.
If you haven’t been to VISCO, you should take a look. It’s one of the most impressive labors of love I’ve seen on the Internets.
12.17.05
Pulp Project #9
FRAZETTA: Queen Kong (cover for Eerie Issue 81, 1976)
He also did a more typical King Kong, which is interesting because the female figure also demonstrates movement and agency in that depiction.
11.20.04
Pulp Project #8
From Michael's Sketchy and Sci-Fi Book Covers via scribblingwoman. I never knew the 50 Foot Woman was a redhead.
11.15.04
Pulp Project #7
From Michael's Sketchy and Sci-Fi Book Covers, via scribblingwoman. I'm not sure how well you can read the top blurb, but it says
TONY COSTAINE and BURT McCALL are flooded with trouble from an unfinished dam - and a whisky mine."Whisky mine"? I vividly remember walking up a road one freezing, blustery day in Scotland. The wind carried the smell of the whisky distillery, and we hiked straight there to, um, warm up. We somehow managed to miss all those whisky mines, though. Better go back and check.
10.27.04
Pulp Project #6
SAUNDERS: Ace Detective, 1938
10.18.04
Pulp Project #5
J. ALLEN ST. JOHN: "The Moon Maid," 1926
10.10.04
Pulp Project #4
SAUNDERS: Ten Story Detective, 1938
09.28.04
Pulp Project #3
FINLAY: "Minos of Sardanes," Fantastic Novels, November 1949
09.24.04
Pulp Project #2
DREW: Best Detective Magazine, February 1932
09.17.04
Pulp Project #1
BERGEY: Startling Stories, September 1950
This is entry #1 of the Pulp Project, which will by no means replace the Redhead Project*. The Redheads are pinups, which reached the height of their popularity about the same time as pulp magazines did. I've gotten interested in the differences between the two, particularly in the subjective space that women occupy in each. Did the pulps allow them more or less potency and/or agency? I'm not sure yet. It's true that the pulp covers often subjectify them as damsels in distress, but they also portray women in positions of power, dissent, and resistance, while pinups usually allow them power only through sexuality**. We'll see, won't we?
*There will be redheads in the pulp series, but there will also be blondes and brunettes and bald aliens.
**Of course, this pulp cover really isn't all that different. Still, the pinup women don't usually get fire as an accessory.