Pulp Magazine Magnets

Description: Weird Tales July 1944

Description: Film Fun vintage pulp magazine cover from the roaring 1920s. Explore the golden vintage past of these retro film fun cover designs.

Description: Film Fun vintage pulp magazine cover from the roaring 1920s. Explore the golden vintage past of these retro film fun cover designs.

Description: If making a little robot girl isn't pure sci-fi pulp fodder, then I don't know what is...

Description: 50s mad scientist pulp magazine cover

Description: Fantastic Novels was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine published by the Munsey Company of New York from 1940 to 1941, and again by Popular Publications, also of New York, from 1948 to 1951. It was a companion to Famous Fantastic Mysteries. Like that magazine, it mostly reprinted science fiction and fantasy classics from earlier decades, such as novels by A. Merritt, George Allan England, and Victor Rousseau, though it occasionally published reprints of more recent work, such as Earth's Last Citadel, by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.

Description: The Spider titled “The Spider and the Pain Master” was published in January 1940.

Description: A cover of the vintage magazine "Weird Tales"

Description: Vintage sci-fi pulp magazine cover for Fantastic Adventures featuring the story "The Octopus of Space" by Alexander Blade, with artwork by Edmond Swiatek depicting an astronaut battling a giant space creature outside a spaceship viewscreen

Description: The March 1938 debut of Captain Satan (King of Adventure) pulp magazine bursts onto the scene with Malvin Singer’s wild illustration of a no-nonsense fellow brandishing a Tommy gun, his shadow inexplicably replaced by a gigantic devil brandishing a trident—because nothing says “good day” like being haunted by your own overachieving inner demon. The cover teases the action-packed feature novel, “The Mask of the Damned” by William O’Sullivan.

Description: Dime Mystery Magazine v30 n01 [1944-03]

Description: Vintage pulp fiction magazine cover for Adventure featuring an Arctic scene of a man in fur clothing sitting in the snow beside a coffee pot, watching two sled dogs howl against a backdrop of sunrays breaking through cold mountains, promoting authors like W. C. Tuttle and Alan LeMay

Description: May 1946 cover of Black Mask pulp magazine, showcasing a dramatic Rafael De Soto illustration of a startled femme fatale writing in her diary while a gun is pointed at her head.

Description: 1930s Art Deco oil painting by illustrator John Drew, originally created as the cover art for the February 1932 issue of Best Detective Magazine to illustrate Dashiell Hammett's famous story, The Maltese Falcon.

Description: The December 1930 cover of *Excitement* pulp magazine, published by Street & Smith, features a striking illustration by the renowned pulp artist Jerome Rozen.

Description: The vintage cover of the August 1946 issue of Adventure pulp magazine features highly detailed and vivid cover artwork painted by Peter Stevens. The portrait depicts a grizzled man with an intense expression wearing a patterned, golden-fringed military hat over a red head wrap, gripping the barrel of a firearm.

Description: Vintage Pulp Magazine Cover

Description: Step into the golden age of weird menace with this striking cover art from the February 1939 issue of Eerie Mysteries pulp magazine. The illustration features a classic horror layout: a wide-eyed woman looks on in terror as a demonic, green-skinned villain holds a tall glass containing a tiny, shrunken woman trapped inside bubbling liquid. Capturing the peak of 1930s shock fiction, the design highlights the sensational feature story, "Horror’s Handshake: Sinister Novel of Satan’s Receptionist" by Ralph Powers. It is the perfect vintage decor piece for fans of retro horror, classic pulp magazines, gothic americana, and sci-fi monster art.

Description: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

Description: cover of Dime Detective Magazine, November 1, 1933 issue.

Description: An authentic vintage June 1935 cover of Spy Novels Magazine, flaunting a wildly dramatic espionage scene by Rafael de Soto for the thrilling tale The Capitol Crime—because nothing says “summer reading” like trench coats, shadowy alleys, and suspiciously well-groomed spies.

Description: The March 1937 cover of Ballyhoo magazine (Volume 12, No. 2) — where vintage wit meets a splash of mischief, all wrapped in art deco flair.

Description: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

Description: cover of the August 1940 premiere issue of The Weird Story Magazine

Description: This image is the cover of the September 25, 1938 issue of Short Stories magazine, a famous American fiction pulp magazine published by Doubleday.

Description: A striking vintage pulp magazine cover illustrated by George Gross, featuring a woman in a yellow dress trapped within a monstrous, bleeding green hand to advertise the feature novel "Drawn Conclusion" by Willeta Ann Barber and R. F. Schabelitz

Description: The May 1932 issue of Redbook practically leaps off the rack with a dazzling cover by McClelland Barclay, the undisputed king of the “pretty girl” genre. In the spotlight, a glowing blonde in a blue top grins as she cradles a tiny wire fox terrier—arguably the most pampered pooch ever to grace print—against a bold red background that all but winks and wags in your direction.

Description: 10-Story Detective Magazine, specifically the October 1947 issue. This classic hard-boiled pulp cover features an illustration by the legendary pulp artist Norman Saunders.

Description: The front cover of the October 15, 1934 issue of Adventure magazine, a hit among American pulp fans, bursts with chaos in Ray Dean’s lively illustration: a dapper man in a spotless white suit skillfully ducks a flying dagger, clearly regretting not just ordering a quiet drink instead of starring in an impromptu tavern demolition derby.

Description: A dramatic pulp fiction cover by Rafael DeSoto for the November 1944 Black Mask magazine depicts a frazzled blonde gripping a revolver, while a mysterious gloved hand greedily snatches a wad of cash—perfectly setting the stage for Robert Reeves’ Cellini Smith tale, “Murder A.W.O.L.”

Description: A classic vintage pulp magazine cover illustrated by Mat Kauten features a gritty cowboy in a flashy red shirt, heroically blasting away with his smoking revolver from behind a fallen log, while a wide-eyed blonde woman looks on as if wondering whether she’s stumbled into a shootout or a very dramatic picnic.

Description: Vintage pulp fiction magazine cover for Argosy All-Story Weekly featuring a suspenseful detective illustration of a man in a bowler hat peeking over the shoulder of another man who is carefully listening to a wall safe with a stethoscope, highlighting John Holden's story "Thunder Off Stage"

Description: A vintage American pulp magazine from the Ridgway Company boasts a hilariously over-the-top cover: a scruffy, salt-crusted pirate locked in an epic, sweaty showdown with the ship’s wooden helm, as if steering it were a full-contact sport.

Description: The lively cover art by pulp maestro Bertram Glover for the debut February 1933 issue (Volume 1, Number 1) of The Phantom Detective magazine shows the masked hero peering through a magnifying glass at the headline tale, “The Emperor of Death” by G. Wayman Jones—perhaps wondering if the emperor misplaced his crown or just forgot his morning coffee.

Description: A dramatic, vibrant pulp cover illustration by artist Hubert Rogers for the August 15, 1932 issue of Adventure magazine, depicting a massive steam locomotive engine barreling forward at night through a wall of raging flames and thick, colorful smoke.

Description: front cover illustration for the December 1943 issue of True Detective magazine (Volume 41, Number 3), a pioneer true crime publication by Macfadden Publications. Painted by cover illustrator Richard Cardiff