The Dime Detectives
(1988 - The Mysterious Press) 
[-BELOW THE LINE-] (by Ron Goulart) Ron Goulart has a number of genre-overview books that are lavishly illustrated. Do not make the mistake of thinking this is one of them. Only 16 pages are set aside to be used as illustration and none of those are acceptable enough to be considered art pages. Among the black-and-white images of color pulp magazine covers, you will find a handful of drawings, themselves reproduced from their magazine printings. Also included there is one page of cartoon-strip sequential art of Sally the Sleuth, who, though she begins the page fully dressed, is reduced to stockings, panties and tattered cloth before the bottom. Good information on the formulation of the hard-boiled dick, but art, not so much.
other Mystery Art books
True Crime Detective Magazines
other pulp cover collections
Collectors Press Pulp Cover collections.
Pulp Art - Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines
The Classic Era Of American Pulp Magazines
Fantastic Science Fiction Art 1926-1954
The Art Of The Pulps - An Illustrated History
Cheap Thrills - An Informal History Of The Pulp Magazine [ BELOW THE LINE ]
The Pulps: Fifty Years Of American Pop Culture [BELOW THE LINE]
The Adventure House Guide To The Pulps [BELOW THE LINE]
other Ron Goulart books
Great American Comic Books / Over 50 Years Of American Comic Books
Comic Book Culture - An Illustrated History
Cheap Thrills - An Informal History Of The Pulp Magazine [ BELOW THE LINE ]
The Great Comic Book Artists vol.1 & 2 [ BELOW THE LINE ]
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