This blog is about my love of reading and as and artist the cover artwork that helps to draw you into the read. Most of the stories come from American magazines such as The black mask, Secret agent x, spicy detective and many more pulp magazines from the 1930's onwards..
Like jazz, the hard boiled private detective is entirely an American invention and it was given life in the pages of pulp magazines. Pulp is misused to indicate hack workof inferior literary achievement.
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. They had been financially successful with
another pulp money spinner of theirs called Parisienne, which itself had been
followed by an erotic stablemate called Saucy Stories. Keeping Smart Set solvent
was always their priority, and there had initially been plans to follow up Saucy
Stories with an all-Negro pulp.
Black Mask English edition.
Early Black Mask contributors of note included J. S. Fletcher, Vincent Starrett, and Herman Petersen.[3] Shaw, following up on a promising lead from one of the early issues, promptly turned the magazine into an outlet for the growing school of naturalistic crime writers led by Carroll John Daly. Daly's private detective Race Williams was a rough and ready character with a sharp tongue, and established the model for many later acerbic private eyes.
Black Mask later published the profoundly influential Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade and The Continental Op, and other hardboiled writers who came in his wake, such as Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Paul Cain, Frederick Nebel, Frederick C. Davis, Raoul F. Whitfield,[3] Theodore Tinsley, W.T. Ballard, Dwight V. Babcock, and Roger Torrey. [4] Author George Harmon Coxe created "Casey, Crime Photographer", for the magazine, which became a media franchise with novels, films, radio, comic book tie-ins, television, and legitimate theatre.[5] Black Mask's covers were usually painted by artists Fred Craft or J. W. Schlaikjer, [6] while Shaw gave the artist Arthur Rodman Bowker a monopoly over all Black Mask interior illustrations. [7] Although primarily known for male contributors, Black Mask also published a number of women crime writers, including Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Katherine Brocklebank, Sally Dixon Wright, Florence M. Pettee, Marion O'Hearn, Kay Krausse, Frances Beck, Tiah Devitt and Dorothy Dunn. [8] The magazine was hugely successful, and many of the writers, such as Hugh B. Cave, who appeared in its pages went onto greater commercial and critical success.
Although crime fiction made up most of the magazine's content, Black Mask also published some Western and general
adventure fiction.
Black Mask Magazine Cover Artwork
Black Mask English edition.Black Mask later published the profoundly influential Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade and The Continental Op, and other hardboiled writers who came in his wake, such as Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Paul Cain, Frederick Nebel, Frederick C. Davis, Raoul F. Whitfield,[3] Theodore Tinsley, W.T. Ballard, Dwight V. Babcock, and Roger Torrey. [4] Author George Harmon Coxe created "Casey, Crime Photographer", for the magazine, which became a media franchise with novels, films, radio, comic book tie-ins, television, and legitimate theatre.[5] Black Mask's covers were usually painted by artists Fred Craft or J. W. Schlaikjer, [6] while Shaw gave the artist Arthur Rodman Bowker a monopoly over all Black Mask interior illustrations. [7] Although primarily known for male contributors, Black Mask also published a number of women crime writers, including Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Katherine Brocklebank, Sally Dixon Wright, Florence M. Pettee, Marion O'Hearn, Kay Krausse, Frances Beck, Tiah Devitt and Dorothy Dunn. [8] The magazine was hugely successful, and many of the writers, such as Hugh B. Cave, who appeared in its pages went onto greater commercial and critical success.
Although crime fiction made up most of the magazine's content, Black Mask also published some Western and general
adventure fiction.
Black Mask Magazine Cover Artwork
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