Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Thrilling Detective, May 1945

I've mentioned before that I never liked going to the barber shop when I was a kid. Is this a barber chair the guy is sitting in? I think it is, and that's a bottle of hair tonic he's holding. Several other bottles are visible in the background. Maybe the redheaded babe was giving him a manicure before she had to pull that gat. Anyway, I don't like barber shops, and if any of you are barbers, I'm sorry. I mean no offense. I promise you, if you'd had to cut my hair when I was a little kid, you wouldn't have liked me, either. I was a terrible customer. But to get back to the point of this post . . . I feel like I should know who painted this cover, but I don't. Sam Cherry, maybe? Inside this issue of THRILLING DETECTIVE are some good authors, most notably Fredric Brown but also Sam Merwin Jr., David X. Manners, Benton Braden (twice, once as himself and under his pseudonym Walter Wilson), and house-name J.S. Endicott (probably Merwin, if I had to guess).

Saturday Morning Western Pulp: 10 Story Western Magazine, August 1941

I really like the action-packed cover on this issue of 10 STORY WESTERN MAGAZINE. I don't know who the artist is, but he did a fine job of coming up with a dynamic cover. The authors inside are no slouches, either: Harry F. Olmsted, Tom W. Blackburn, Cliff Farrell, Ed Earl Repp, David X. Manners, Dave Sands (a house name) and Rutherford Montgomery (who went on to write a bunch of popular juvenile novels about animals) are the best known names.