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The Art Of The Pulps - An Illustrated History
(2017 - IDW) 
 (edited by Douglas Ellis, Ed Hulse & Robert Weinberg). I found the handling of this book a bit of a chore. Maybe it's mostly its square-ish shape, but this 11-by-10-inch tome just always felt too hefty to wield comfortably (though, mathematically, it's only 20% too big in regards to our manageability 'window'). Additionally, the text-pages are white letters on deep black pages - still very readable, but those pristine black pages unerringly indicate where you've held them, so you spend so much focus trying to prevent that. It has to be said that the reproductions of all the pulp covers seem incredibly clear and vibrant. Out of the book's 240 pages, 35 feature a single large image and another 147 gather together two or three smaller ones. Of the 56 text pages, 19 share information about the artists (as opposed to the themes, stories, publishers & writers). The chapters are laid out with the titles: Birth Of The Pulps, In Search Of Adventure, Cops-Crooks-&-Private-Dicks, Riding The Range, Above The Clouds & In the Trenches, Armchair Athletics, Love On The Newsstands, The Horror!-The Horror!, Adventures In Other Worlds, When We Needed A Hero, Adding More Than A Pinch Of Spice, Wizards with a Brush, Wizards With A Pen, and a afterword & a great index. Every image is accompanied by an anecdotal caption, detailing the publication & issue, along with an incredible effort to identify almost every artist. Those anecdotes seem to actually hold the bulk of the digestible factoids about what you are looking at. Anyway, the 'well-presented' painters found here are: Allen Anderson*, Walter Baumhofer (2), Earle Bergey (4), Frederick Blakeslee, Enoch Bolles, John A. Coughlin (2), George Gross, Robert G. Harris, Don Hewitt, Arnold Kohn, Tom Lovell**, Delos Palmer, Frank R. Paul (2)*, Sidney Riesenberg, Hubert Rogers, George Rozen, Norman Saunders (2)**, Paul Stahr, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, Joseph Szokoli, Stephen Waite, H.J. Ward (3)***, Stanley Wood, Charles Wren, and UNKNOWN (2).
* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Anderson & Paul can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.
** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Lovell, and Saunders, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.
*** - In regards to the 'well-presented' pieces here by Ward, some, but not all can be found so in his own collection on The List.
other pulp cover collections
 Savage Art
  Collectors Press Pulp Cover collections.
 Science Fiction Art
 Pulp Art - Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines
 The Classic Era Of American Pulp Magazines
 Fantastic Science Fiction Art 1926-1954
 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]
 The Dime Detectives [BELOW THE LINE]
other IDW releases
 Roy G. Krenkel: Father Of Heroic Fantasy - A Centennial Celebration
 The Art Of Jim Starlin - A Life In Words And Pictures
 The Art Of George Pérez
 Frank R. Paul - The Dean Of Science Fiction Illustration
 Art Of Tommy Lee Edwards
 Dave Stevens: Covers & Stories
 The Art Of P. Craig Russell
 The Art Of Pulp Fiction - An Illustrated History Of Vintage Paperbacks
 Alien Invasions! The History Of Aliens In Pop Culture
  Michael Wm. Kaluta Sketchbook Series vol.1 & 2
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