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Amazing site! I could scroll through these for hours.
I am! Wonderful stuff. Really wonderful, thank you.
Still here, and finding new stuff all the time. Great fun!
Love the site. I just finished reading “Jane Carver of Waar” after seeing it on here. Cheers guys.
And I’m planning to read it after I saw your comment.
Hi
Love your site. Beautiful scans. Thank you. Are these covers in Public Domain? thanks Jack
Some of them are, mostly the ones from the 30’s and earlier. The later ones are mostly copyrighted by someone, although in many cases that someone is a defunct company and no one can track down the current holder.
I suggest two new tags to be added. Readable and Downloadable.
I would like to thank you for this brilliant website. The covers are awesome. Bearing in mind your comments regarding copyright, I have incorporated several covers into some of my artwork (not for resale – hobbyist only). You can see it here: http://oblomovomich.deviantart.com/gallery/58114731/Pulp-Fiction
Thanks for a great site. Inspiring work for sure. The hay day on magazine illustration. Alas now gone. The new illustrators work in gaming I guess. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed.
what a great site!!thank you for sharing
Wow, great work on this site.
Saw you guys on @Midnight. Congrats!
Glad to see the site is back up.
Yeah, we went through two different hosting companies this last week. Thankfully we maintain independent offsite backups!
These are just great. Thanks for doing this.
I visit at least twice a week, nostalgic, weird, funny; just great work!
What a discovery! Great work! I like pulps-paperbacks cover art.Your finds are superbe.Thanks a lot !
Thank you for the hours of entertainment during the last year, with some great covers. Much appreciated. Looking forward to more of the same in the year to come. Happy New Year.
Why can’t I submit a cover? The “Select Files” button doesn’t do anything.
Absolutely LOVE this archive!! Thank you for doing this!!
I can’t believe you’ve been doing this for 7 years and I only just found now out!
I discovered your site when I happened to be going through the “images” section of a Google search for Fantastic Universe covers and was struck by the Schomburg cover you have up without the magazine logo and printing on it at:
https://pulpcovers.com/tag/fantasticuniverse/
Beautiful job on that one!
I hope you can keep doing this and, perhaps even more important, keep this archive up and running on the internet. There’s tons of important work you’ve done here! Thank you!
— JRS
Nice site! I read a lot of reprints of these stories in the’60’s and ’70’s. Great to see them in their original form and the artwork is awesome. I particularly like Margaret Brundage. I might look for some prints of hers on eBay. Plus it has pointed me to some authors I didn’t know from the period, who I’ll now track down for more of their work and background. Thanks!
Good grief this site is amazing, you people are amazing!
I uploaded some covers to you a year ago or so–will you ever post them?
I’ve noticed that alot of the cover artists/Illustrators are missing on new posts. Do you need assistance with that?
I always put the artist, if known, but often I can’t find a record. If you know any of them, please leave a comment and I will update the tags.
Incredible work on this site! Thank you for all of this!
Great covers of these vintage magazines! I Love them
Best web site ever!!!!
For the last twenty years, I have been scanning pulp art covers from books and magazines. Using Photoshop, I then restore the cover to like new. I try to determine what the artist had in mind and to eliminate printing errors, wear and tear, dirt and marks, and so on. Of course this works best when I can scan from an original, but such covers are getting harder to find and more expensive. Just downloaded a few of your covers, but not sure the quality will be what I need. I typically scan at 600 dpi. Any thoughts?
Most of the scans here are pulled from the web or submitted by readers, and are of the best quality I can find. My own scans tend to be very high resolution. If you have any scans you would like to contribute, I would be most appreciative.
Anyone hear of a story relative to …”Algerian Rebel Girls…”? Can’t remember the magazine or year, maybe 1959-1963.
Thank You,
George
Guerrilla Girls?
Where could I get a copy of a story in the September 1934 ‘Top Notch’ by Alice Howland Macomber?
Fantastic site! Just sent you a vicious panda that I hope can be used.
Great site!
Beautiful art,
Great site. Great covers. Thanks for sharing this.
This site is phenomenal. I have to force myself to leave and get anything done. Great job.
Thank you so much for this site, guys. Much appreciated.
Just wanted to let you know you serve as a great inspiration for my book covers (over at https://instagram.com/vintage_covers)
Keep up the great work!!
Great collection! Thank you for archiving and sharing these classic pulp images. Love them!
The greatest website in…the web.
Wonderful work.
Thank you for a shared-love shared.
I would like to include one or two on my in-development website.
Linked back to you.
Hope that’s ok.
Cheers
Karin
Amazing!
I am a translator and a English teacher in Japan, as well as a SF fan, a skeptic, and was a historic archeologist. That means I am one of you.
I have been looking for fun materials to teach English. Oh my deities, here they are.
I would love to spend my hours to create reading worksheets out of these magazines. I am sure will do!
I’ve just come across this site. AMAZING!!!!! I’ve been interested in science fiction through the decades since the 1970s. Seeing these covers, and being able to read some of the stories, particularly the 1930s, has been fantastic. It also gives an insight into the thoughts of people during that time. Wonderful!!!
What a great site!
Thanks for sharing all the marvellous covers.
Great work!
fabulous work, to all involved a big thank you!!!
I have learned so much from this site about the amazing art and artists who produced ‘pulp’ illustrations! Their images have been seen by far more people than the works of mainstream artists, and they have influenced our culture in far-reaching ways. Thanks so much for putting such enormous effort into sharing these images and information about their artists and venues.
Would you happen to have all the covers on your site stored in a zipped folder or in something else that we could download in one shot? Thanks for the great work, mucho appreciated!
No, primarily because I am constantly updating images. A static ZIP would be out of date in a few hours.
Impressive collection. I’ve seen a lot of my father’s illustrations on here that I haven’t seen before. Some signed. (Walter Popp).
Interesting discussion about reprinting and whether or not the artists were paid for them that I might be able to shed some light on if anyone’s interested.
I’m certainly interested!
Love, love, love both your blogs, they’re my absolute favourite. What I wanted to ask you is: any chance for a horror covers blog? I can’t find any high res images on the internet, and some of them are absolutely gorgeous.
Hi, just researching a copy of Thrilling Ranch Stories and found your site, which I will bookmark for reading in the future. I’m in the UK and Thrilling Ranch Stories’ I have is a British reprint, just scanned off the original, albeit under license. Anyway you are welcome to a hi res scan if you can email and tell me how to submit. Simon