Rough Edges

Walter Baumhofer did some great covers for DIME DETECTIVE during this era, and here's another of 'em. The lineup of authors in this ...

I'm not that familiar with the work of Charles De Feo, but he did a pretty good job on this cover. ADVENTURE always featured good author...

There's a lot going on in this great cover by Malvin Singer, all of it dramatic. And as usual with DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE, there are so...

This issue of DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY sports a simple but effective cover by Emmett Watson. Inside are stories by some good authors includi...

Yikes! What a disturbing cover by Walter Baumhofer for this issue of DIME DETECTIVE. I'm sure there are quite a few jolts in the stories...

I like oil derrick covers. It's kind of an odd thing, I know, but it probably comes from spending quite a bit of time in West Texas when...

An abundance of work and some real-life issues have caused me to neglect the blog in recent days, but I hope to get that squared away soon. ...

With the exception of BLACK MASK in the Twenties, I'm not sure there was ever a better detective pulp than DIME DETECTIVE in the Thirtie...

I was in the mood for an aviation pulp cover this morning, and I picked this one by George Rozen from WAR BIRDS because I don't recal...

When it comes to covers, such as this one by Walter Baumhofer, and the authors inside, DIME DETECTIVE was a great pulp. Authors in this i...

Clearly, deep sea diving was considered adventurous during the pulp era, because such scenes show up fairly often on pulp covers, such as...

Well, that's got to be kind of a shock, when you're just riding along and this big ol' bird swoops down and attacks you. I do...

You just don't run across stories with titles like "Fokker Dust" anymore. Thomson Burtis was a well-known writer of aviatio...