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black mask
Black Mask was a pulp magazine launched in April 1920 by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan to support the loss-making but prestigious literary magazine Smart Set. Mencken was a well-known literary journalist and sometime poet; Nathan a drama critic. Credited as having the best talent writing for a detective pulp, Black Mask included Erle Stanley Gardner, Lester Dent, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Norbert Davis, Frederick Davis and more.
Bron: blackmaskmagazine.com
the applegreen cat ( 1943 )
No display of vintage paperbacks would be complete without Rudolph Belarski, the great pulp cover artist. The pulps of the thirties and forties depicted only two kinds of women – (1) beautiful and about commit mayhem, and (2) beautiful and about to have mayhem committed upon. Or, as in this case, both.
