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title: "Astounding, Mysterious, Weird and True: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists"
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# Astounding, Mysterious, Weird and True: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists

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- **What is this?** Astounding, Mysterious, Weird and True: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists by steven browerjim simon
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Astounding, Mysterious, Weird and True: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists

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## Customer Reviews

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    IT'S OKAY
  

*by W***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2013*

To be honest I was expecting more.  The art I felt wasn't that good , but then again a lot of the artists did their best workafter the pulps.  I did learn interesting information about the pulps and the artists.  If I had to do it again I would see ifthis book is available at the local library or Interlibrary loan.  You can request loans thru Interlibrary loan and get booksand dvds from all over the country----once I got a book from the Fairbanks, Alaska library  and I  live in St. Louis !!Usually you get three weeks to read/view a loan from the day you check it out when it comes in to your local library--there are no charges for this service most of the time. I've requested ILL over 100 times and only two libraries wantedto charge me. If a library wants to charge you, you have the choice to pay or decline.  Hope this was helpful.

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    Weirdly Mysterious, Truly Astounding
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2013*

Once upon a time, literacy was almost universal in the English-speaking world. A determined push to educate all and sundry took reading out of the hands of a moneyed intelligentsia and made it a tool of the working class, just as print technology was finding cheaper, more effective ways for creators and purveyors to disseminate their wares.Moreover, what everybody in publishing knew was that hardworking folk needed more than anything was entertainment - the less wholesome and salutary the better...In Britain we had newspapers, a burgeoning comics sector, "blood and thunder" periodicals and story magazines. In America they had "The Pulps"...As well as spectacular colour covers, most pulps had black and white interior illustrations and some even had their own comic strip serials.There were pulps for every possible topic from romance to mystery to all-out action - including racier "men's adventures": 2-fisted exotic thrillers heavy on fetishism, with Rugged American men rescuing white women from thugs and foreigners, saving them (the white women, of course) from "fates worse than death", but only just in time and never before losing lots of clothing (the girls, and often the Rugged Americans too...).The story of how Max Gaines turned freebie pamphlets containing reprinted newspaper strips into a discrete and saleable commodity (launching an entire industry, if not art-form) has been told elsewhere, but undoubtedly the influence of attention-grabbing pulp pictures as much as reformatted cartoons shaped the tastes of a generation.Moreover, with thematic similarities and often the same publishers hiring illustrators (and writers), naturally the artisanss of one market frequently worked in both and sometimes all 3 arenas.Now with comicbooks the indisputable major player in today's illustrated fiction, comes a superb collection of images gathered together by writer/designer Steven Brower and novelist Jim Simon which shines a welcome light on those artists whose talents could be seen in all areas of popular fiction...This superb gallery includes an efficient and studious overview of the history and characters that thrived in those bygone days before the sublime and stunning panoply of pictures - all accompanied by incisive and revelatory potted biographies - commences.The images are culled from such lauded titles as Astounding, If, Weird Tales, Galaxy, Nick Carter, Detective, Detective Short Stories, Planet Stories, Adventure, World's News, Speed Detective, Sky Fighters, Dime Western and many more.The artists featured can be broken into roughly three categories: pulp masters who also worked in comicbooks such as Edd Cartier, Charles Coll, Virgil Finlay, Kelly Freas, Roy G. Krenkel, Gray Morrow and Alex Schomburg whilst the second is jobbing artists equally at home in newspapers comicbooks, pulps and eventually commercial art.Those include Benjamin "Stookie" Allen, D, Bruce Berry, Jack Binder, Jon L. Blummer, J. C, Burroughs (son of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs), Harry Campbell, Paul Cooper, Harvey Eisenberg, Elton Fax, Harry Fisk, Dan Heilman, Ray Isip, Jeff Jones, Jacob Landau, D.H. Moneypenny, Lou Morales, Leo Morey, Norman Nodel, Neil O'Keefe, George Olesen, Paul Orban, H.L. Parkhurst, Louis Ravielli, Rod Ruth, John Styga, Riley Thomson, Elmer Wexler, Chuck Winter and Cedric Windas.Finally there are examples by legendary comics stars like Dan Adkins, Murphy Anderson, Dick Ayers, Matt Baker, Dan Barry, C.C. Beck, Pete Constanza, Stan Drake, Bill Draut, Will (or Bill) Ely, Creig Flessel, Dick Fletcher, John Forte, Matt Fox, Dick Giordano, John Giunta, Jerry Iger, Graham Ingels, Jack Kirby, George Klein, Alex Kotsky, Alden McWilliams, Mort Meskin, Irving Novick, Rudy Palais, Alex Raymond, Paul Reinman, Syd Shores, Joe Simon and Wally Wood.There even some British superstars included - Norman Petit (creator of Jane and Susie), Brian Lewis (Dan Dare, Suki) and the inimitable Don Lawrence, artist on Storm, Trigan Empire, Marvelman, and many more...Also included here is an intriguing selection of Prototypes, displaying potential pulp antecedents of such comics characters as the Joker and Mr. Mxyzptlk...If you're of a nostalgic bent or simply love of magnificent fantasy art, Astounding, Mysterious, Weird & True is a compendium to amaze and delight you.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Black and white and shades of grey
  

*by H***K on Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2018*

Thank you Mr. Simon, thank you Mr. Brower.  Fantastic collection, hope there are more volumes planned.  I loved, still do, the black illustrations with old science fiction digest magazines.  I would thumb through the issue, examinging both the art at the start of the story, then the larger middle illustration, all of it, increasing my interest as to where this tale might take me.  I loved this book.Both known artists and lesser known ones.  I'll be on the watch out for volume 2.

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