The Adventure House Guide To The Pulps
(2000 - Adventure House)

[-BELOW THE LINE-] (by Doug Ellis, John Locke & John Gunnison) The front & back covers provide you 48 small color pulp covers. That's it for color from this 368 page reference work. There's also 14 art-pages that each give you a large-ish drawing and another page that's got two images. Now, there's a bit more than 1000 additional small pulp cover images to be had, published originally in color, but found here in only black-&-white. The book is a huge grid-formatted 'database' meant to provide the most accurate & complete information possible, to-that-date, about what pulps had existed. Quite the challenge, when faced with inaccurate cover & indicia dating, seemingly constant frequency changes & re-titling, sometimes non-existent distribution, re-packaging of unsold inventory, bizarre number-schemes & copyright laws and hide-bound rumors, as well as being at a 30-year remove from their passing (some pulp magazines being over 40-years-old at *that* time). Amid the 32 text pages about the pulp phenomenon, there are two that focus on artists and what they particularly brought to these magazine endeavors. In canvassing those few 'well-presented' drawings, identification would look like: Peter Costanza, Will Gilbert, Charles L. McCann, Max Plaisted, Amos Sewell, George H. Wert, and UNKNOWN ARTIST (8).