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Pulp art ID.
Drusilla lives!:
Wow, thanks for those cover scans! They make those covers look even more impressive imo.
Btw, I was looking at the title page from the scans posted on your blog of the first pulp (the one with the Ruesswig cover) and noticed that it lists an A. H. Bittner as associate editor. So perhaps it is a mistake and he isn't the one who painted the second one.
Drusilla lives!:
Ah hah! There is another entry for this particular issue on the fictionmags index and this one credits a W. M. Allison as the cover artist... which makes just a bit more sense (although not much) judging by the looks of that signature... hopefully Cimm could confirm this, eventually. :)
JVJ (RIP):
--- Quote from: Drusilla lives! on August 28, 2010, 03:58:45 PM ---Ah hah! There is another entry for this particular issue on the fictionmags index and this one credits a W. M. Allison as the cover artist... which makes just a bit more sense (although not much) judging by the looks of that signature... hopefully Cimm could confirm this, eventually. :)
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I wish I knew which "this particular issue" you were referring to, DL. It helps to be more specific in these posts. As for W.M. Allison, it's highly doubtful that he did either of them and that certainly is NOT his signature on the second one.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
darwination:
Lol, I thought that credit for the May 1927 issue might be fishy.
I'm pretty sure the artist is H.C. Murphy. Here's his signature:
http://i37.tinypic.com/29z38k5.jpgand the sig again from above, I'm not quite sure how these will line up until I see them posted here...
http://i34.tinypic.com/atmd0y.jpgA quick look at his cover credits on Fictionmags shows that he was very active in this time period and that he did in fact do at least one other cover for Frontier Stories as well as covers for many other Fiction House magazines. I happen to have a couple pulps in my collection with covers by Mr. Murphy in a similar color scheme, so here are the cover images:
Adventure, May 20 1924
http://i34.tinypic.com/wsv22q.jpghttp://i34.tinypic.com/16hw75s.jpg
Sea Stories, August 1929
http://i34.tinypic.com/1q0k7r.jpghttp://i37.tinypic.com/r9h4pv.jpg
The second one is scanned and available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?djwlm22zzmo
So perhaps the sun has set on this particular mystery ;)
JVJ (RIP):
Sure LOOKS like the same style, doesn't it, darwination?
He has the water down pat.
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