Pulp Art reconstruction commissions

As part of my project of commissioning and publishing art for Erotic Mad Science, I am setting up a series of commissions in recreating various old pulp covers. I love these things: they were lurid and shameless, an attempt to titillate the mid-twentieth century viewer into buying the magazine for the genre-fiction contents within. Of course, they couldn’t be too lurid — the nudity had to (usually) be implied to keep news dealers from getting in trouble with the local prosecutor — but they went pretty far.

One of the delights of living in the twenty-first century is that we have a medium in which we can really let our respective freak flags fly, and this is one of mine. The objective here is create psuedo-pulp covers that make explicit what might only have been hidden before. Here is an example of what I mean: For its November-December 1938 issue the pulp magazine Terror Tales published this cover:

And in 2014 I commissioned Frans Mensink to update it into this:

What follows are a series of other pulp images for which I would like to update or reconstruct. If the image has been posted before at one of my sites, I’ll include a link to that posting with its discussion, which posting will usually provide additional information about the provenance of the image. Once a commission is placed I will mark the image as “Status: ASSIGNED.” Some artists will be invited to place commissions, but I will be willing to accept unsolicited proposal to place commissions at rates to be discussed with individual artists. All commissions are intended for publication at Erotic Mad Science and other sites I control under a Creative Commons, No-Derivatives, Non-Commercial license (though these terms will be waived for the creator). If you are an artist and are interested, please feel free to contact me.

#1

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#2

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#3

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#4

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#5

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#6

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#7

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#8

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#9

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#10

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#11

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#12

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#13

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#14

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#15

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#16

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#17

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#18

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#19

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#20

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#21

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#22

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#23

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#24

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#25

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#26

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#27

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#28

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#29

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#30

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#31

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#32

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#33

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#34

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#35

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#36

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#37

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#38

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#39

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#40

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#41

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#42

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#43

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#44

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#45

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#46

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#47

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#48

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#49

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#50

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#51

Image in context:

Posted here Status: unassigned.

#52

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#53

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#54

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#55

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#56

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#57

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#58

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#59

Posted here. Status: ASSIGNED.

#60

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#61

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

#62

Posted here. Status: unassigned.

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