Pulp Art
CoolHandBond
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Yes, another thread from CHB. The book covers and movie poster threads seem pretty popular, and the comic strip thread is getting some good views, so I’m starting this one to run alongside the others.
Pretty girls, action scenes, horror, sci-fi and noir are some examples of the genre’s that are included in the terminology of pulp art. Below is an example of what will be posted.
Some of the pictures you will recognise from book covers, magazine covers and movie posters, but before the typography is added. Others may be rejected artwork or legitimate paintings of a movie scene etc. etc.
I will add more pictures as regularly as possible.
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This looks like another ‘must read’ thread from CHB 👏🏻😁
Yes, agreed!
Another assortment…three of these are easy to identify…
A couple of good horror paintings…
And finally…
Errr…wow 🤩
The 1st is "Von Ryan's Express", the next 2 are easy, is the Lee van Cleef one "A Fistful Of Dynamite"?
Love the Hammer Dracula painting!
No, it’s not A Fistful Of Dynamite, he wasn’t in that (James Coburn and Rod Steiger were). I will leave it for a while to see if anyone else can guess.
Von Ryan is correct, of course.
Glad you like the Hammer painting, there’s a lot more of those to come!
Originally I thought it was A Fistful of Dynamite…but it’s probably Sabata then…
Correct, Sir Miles 🥇
Might be fun to let readers guess the movie pictures 😁
Guess the movies…
Good girl and bad girl art…
And…
Someone's idea of The Mummy, a bad look at From Here to Eternity, the last one looks vaguely like Barbarella. Thunderball at the bottom, Domino is wearing the wrong swim suit for that scene. That Lee Van Cleef one above is definitely SABATA. It's the DVD cover.
Well, it’s one of the Hammer Mummy movies, the other two are correct. The TB piece is not supposed to be an accurate representation of a scene, more of a homage, as most of these pieces are.
It's The Mummy's Shroud. As a Hammer nerd I have a copy of it, though not with that cover.
Ah... not one of Hammer's best....
It's not even the best of their Mummy movies!
Movies…
A pre-production painting…
Noir…
A gift from Robert McGinnis to a friend…I wish I owned it…
Girls…
And finally, introducing Suzi. More Suzi pictures will appear from time to time…until I get banned from the site. Sir Miles will be taking a lot of cold showers, and Barbel will be fending off complaints from Miss Snowflake 😁
The Robert McGinnis artwork is fabulous…there was a limited run of it produced…
And….I'm just off for a cold shower 🚿👀
The movies above are The Most Dangerous Man In The World (aka The Chairman) and Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell.
Movies…
Noir…
Bond…
Girls…
And Suzi…
Are the movies The Skull and Convoy? And the noir pic is Two For The Seesaw. I think I can just about figure which Bond film it is.
Yes, all correct! It was a bit if a stretch for me to label the Mitchum movie as noir, but the picture sure looks like it!
These artworks are fabulous 😀
One of the best depictions of a movie I’ve ever seen in the form of a poster…
A great Universal Monster montage…
Drawn in 1913 - a vision of futuristic New York…
And some more pulp art…
these grade seperated overlapping road networks would solve a lot of big city traffic problems. the problem is, thats all impermeable surfaces, no greenspace to absorb precipitation. Theyd have flooding issues when it rains heavy.
whats that Tolkien-esque one?
The Hammer Dracula (1st one) poster is terrific, as is the Universal montage.
More pulp art…
A couple of nice scenes here…
And here’s Suzi again…
I don't know if you remember, but @Thunderpussy used to talk about his "Gentleman's Interest" art collection. These would fit in there just nicely.
All I know is that it’s by Greg Hildebrandt who died last week.
Hopefully TP is lurking on here from time to time, and enjoying this thread 😁
I said whats that Tolkien-esque one?
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meaning this one
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CoolHand said All I know is that it’s by Greg Hildebrandt who died last week.
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right! I thought I recognised that style
The Brothers Hildebrandt (other brother being Tim). I remember them putting out a series of Tolkien calendars in the mid70s, around the same time I first read the books and the Ralph Bashki film came out
someone posted all the images from the 1976 calendar here
We’ve all seen this one before but it’s always worth looking at…
Moving on…
Action…
And Suzi…
I’m kinda drawn to the third image there…for some reason 😮👀☺️