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I need help from PULP collectors : Was this painting used on a pulp mag cover?

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dekeuk

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Maybe you pulp collectors can help me out here.

 

Does anyone know if this painting below was ever used as the cover illustration for a pulp magazine?

 

It sort of looks like it might have been?

 

Any thoughts on this are appreciated, including what you think of the artwork.

 

 

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Cimm

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I've never seen that particular image before, but, then again, I am not a heavy Tarzan collector. As for the art itself, it looks like a lot of the Blue Book covers I've seen, in style and composition. Any idea on the artist's name?

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I've never seen that particular image before, but, then again, I am not a heavy Tarzan collector. As for the art itself, it looks like a lot of the Blue Book covers I've seen, in style and composition. Any idea on the artist's name?

 

It is unsigned

 

So maybe it is an amateur painting?

 

 

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sure looks like a Blue Book image to me....

 

 

 

I don't know much about Tarzan, but I looked at some Tarzan blue book covers HERE

 

The Blue Book covers seem to have Tarzan with much longer hair than the character in the painting to which I was referring

 

 

 

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My apologies... I should have specified the era of Blue Books I was talking about... the 1940s, not the 1920s... everything was much more straitlaced in the forties, long haired men probably weren't acceptable on covers anymore.

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bronzilla

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Maybe you pulp collectors can help me out here.

 

Does anyone know if this painting below was ever used as the cover illustration for a pulp magazine?

 

It sort of looks like it might have been?

 

Any thoughts on this are appreciated, including what you think of the artwork.

 

 

paintingftm.jpg

 

 

Do you own this?

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bronzilla

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Im going to Bump this thread since I just aquired this art. Thanks for the help in brokering dekeuk, it looks even better in person!!

Very pleased!!

 

So if anyone can help it would be truly apreciated!!!!

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Thanks for the tip. I had emailed Peter Ogden last week and he pretty much gave his same thoughts to me that he gave in that Q and A.

I feel pretty sure its not Samson and Delila what with the shorter hair and the leopard Loin cloth.

 

A few other E.R.B. enthusiasts have sugested it might be from a European Publication featuring Tarzan.

 

I will keep looking.

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I wont Bump this thread into perpetuity guys.

 

I just wish to make an offer here. I will pay a finders fee of 250.00 to the person who can lead me definitivly to the person who painted this image and or which publication it was in. If indeed, it is a published piece.

 

So it might be worth someones effort to spend some computer time researching.

 

Thanks in advance and PM me if you have any questions.

 

 

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