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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jul 9, 2021 21:22:09 GMT -5
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jul 9, 2021 21:27:59 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Jul 10, 2021 7:22:28 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 10, 2021 11:37:46 GMT -5
Keep in mind, you could find the same types of lurid images on the covers of pulp magazines (and interiors), as well as the later "men's adventure" magazines, following WW2. The comic book publishers had mostly been pulp magazine publishers and they carried over the same sensibilities for what sold. Torture was common, elaborate deathtraps, bondage, violence, scantily clad women, Nazis, hooded thugs, gangsters, fire...you name it. Many paperback thrillers and exploitation books also carried those images. Newspapers used crime scene photos to sell sensational stories, detective magazines had similar covers and graphic stories of bloody murders and violent crimes.
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Post by MDG on Jul 10, 2021 18:25:09 GMT -5
Keep in mind, you could find the same types of lurid images on the covers of pulp magazines (and interiors), as well as the later "men's adventure" magazines, following WW2. The comic book publishers had mostly been pulp magazine publishers and they carried over the same sensibilities for what sold. Torture was common, elaborate deathtraps, bondage, violence, scantily clad women, Nazis, hooded thugs, gangsters, fire...you name it. Many paperback thrillers and exploitation books also carried those images. Newspapers used crime scene photos to sell sensational stories, detective magazines had similar covers and graphic stories of bloody murders and violent crimes. Amazon sells cheap kindle editions of pulp stories, and frankly I'm shocked at some of the stuff in them. If some of those scenes had been illustrated, they all woulda been run outtta town on a rail. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 10, 2021 18:55:37 GMT -5
Keep in mind, you could find the same types of lurid images on the covers of pulp magazines (and interiors), as well as the later "men's adventure" magazines, following WW2. The comic book publishers had mostly been pulp magazine publishers and they carried over the same sensibilities for what sold. Torture was common, elaborate deathtraps, bondage, violence, scantily clad women, Nazis, hooded thugs, gangsters, fire...you name it. Many paperback thrillers and exploitation books also carried those images. Newspapers used crime scene photos to sell sensational stories, detective magazines had similar covers and graphic stories of bloody murders and violent crimes. Amazon sells cheap kindle editions of pulp stories, and frankly I'm shocked at some of the stuff in them. If some of those scenes had been illustrated, they all woulda been run outtta town on a rail. Fantagraphics did a whole book about some of the Timely comic guys doing illustrations for Goodman's pulp line and there is some seriously twisted @#$% in there. Harry Donenfeld published the Spicy line of pulps, which weren't too far removed from outright porn. From what I've read, those were often sold "under the counter", so as not to get into trouble with local authorities. As it was, he narrowly escaped jail time for obscenity, before cleaning them up a bit...  That's one of the tamer ones! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 10, 2021 18:59:55 GMT -5
Here's the Fantagraphics book, about the comic guys moonlighting for his pulps and other magazines...  You can read more about it, with images, here... |
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