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See also Staff Bios.
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This Issue's Cover
 This time, I'm "borrowing" a cover from a cheesy, sleazy true crime rag from the forties. It's from the September 1941 issue of Timely Publications' Complete Detective Cases. The art director was listed as Joe Simon, who passed away just recently. Simon worked on a lot of these true crime mags for Timely (later to become Marvel), and it was most likely there that he first hooked up with artist Jack Kirby, who provided much of the interior art for these magazines. Simon and Kirby, of course, later went on to make very big names for themselves in comics, creating Captain America, the Boy Commandos, The Fly and a rash of other heroes, and working on a wide variety of comics -- everything from horror, crime romance, war and even Archie comics -- for various publishers for the next twenty years or so.
Anyway, besides the usual woman-in-bondage photo (which was par for the course for these types of magazines of the time), the original cover promised such scintilating articles as "Passion Prophet and His Scarlet Affairs" and "Lust Attends a Birthday Party." But for some reason, it just all felt sort of Christmassy to me. The result is what you see.
I dunno. Maybe I've been working retail too long...
Got pulp?
Our pal J. Kingston Pierce, he of January Magazine and Rap Sheet fame, reveals himself to be a crime cover geek of the first degree in Killer Covers, this don't-miss blog. He offers a cover-of-the-week feature, discusses both legendary and hot new artists and illustrators and keeps an eye on the good, the bad and the ugly.
And then, if that isn't enough, do check out Illustration Magazine. Talk about eye candy. This allegedly scholarly magazine devoted to the history of American illustration art is just too delicious to leave to the eggheads. It's published quarterly in full color and each issue features some of the highest quality printing, photography and color reproductions of original art you'll see anywhere. Highly recommended for any gazebo out there with a jones for pop culture and commercial art, but readers here will particularly dig the regular features that pop up on the artists and illustrators who worked on comic books, paperbacks and the pulps. Fun? YES! But collectors will love it too.
By the way, if you 've enjoyed our covers over the years, But if this is your sort of thing, have patience. We are planning to eventually have a sort of gallery of previous covers, reproducing the full-size covers. I'll save some brimstone for you. In the meantime, you can take a gander at the collage of covers we used for our tenth anniversary issue right here.
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