First off, what exactly is a pulp? Pulp magazines were an extremely popular source for fiction, poetry and short stories before 1960 and exist in this format prior to 1900. Most were originally sold for 10 to 25 cents. The pulp format died when the paperback book format became more popular after WWII. Pulps primarily consisted of pages of text with some B&W illustrations and multiple stories that were often serialized. Most pulps are similar in overall shape to a comic book, but they are much thicker and squarebound although there are many variations of shape, size, binding and content. The pulps seemingly covered every subject and topic imaginable.

Ok, now what is PulpGallery? Not only is PulpGallery our Ebay ID, but it is also our website where you can browse through THOUSANDS of scans of vintage magazine covers. When an artist created a cover for a pulp magazine, he or she also truly created a piece art. This art was usually in the form of a painting much larger than what wound up on the magazine cover. The artist's task was to grab and hold your attention for a few seconds and make you pick their magazine over all others that it was sharing shelf space with on the magazine rack. For this reason, the art on pulp covers usually displayed some wild, outrageous and downright stunning situations ...and that doesn't even include the the sexy-cheesecake-girly and horror-terror cover images. You won't find anything like pulp art on today's mostly computer generated magazine covers. Much of the artwork for the pulps was apparently kept and destroyed by the publishers. Works that were returned to the artists or escaped destruction are a rare and highly coveted prize to find, as any avid pulp fan already knows. PulpGallery exists for the purpose of sharing the unique and wonderful art form of the vintage pulp magazine as well as serving as a visual reference guide for collectors and the curious.

..and best of all, there is no admission fee!