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Description: A stunning Art Nouveau exhibition poster designed by Belgian painter and illustrator Flori van Acker in 1907. The artwork advertised an impressive retrospective exhibition of Dutch and Flemish art, held from June to September 1907 at the Provincial Court (Goudenhuis) on the Grand Market (Groote Markt) in Bruges. The composition features Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, who founded the chivalric Order of the Golden Fleece (Het Gulden Vlies) in Bruges in 1430. He is shown holding the grand master staff in front of a medieval Bruges cityscape, flanked by the historical coats of arms of Flanders and Bruges.
Het Gulden Vlies: Tentoonstelling van Nederlandsche Kunst in de Stad Brugge Phone Case
$17 $23
Description: A compelling French propaganda lithograph poster designed by celebrated Italian-French poster artist Leonetto Cappiello in 1920. Commissioned by the Union Française (National Association for the Moral and Material Expansion of France) following the economic hardships of World War I, the artwork serves as a post-war civic allegory encouraging national savings. It illustrates a determined French worker wearing a cap and red sash, dropping gold coins into a barrel pot to nourish a thriving tree laden with ripe oranges.
Union Française: Economisez votre argent pour en tirer le meilleur fruit Phone Case
$17 $23
Description: The January 13, 1934 issue of Love Story Magazine bursts onto the scene with a vibrant cover, proudly flaunting its status as a premier weekly romance pulp from Street & Smith. Artist Modest Stein delivers a playful masterpiece: an elegant couple locked in a dramatic embrace, framed by a blazing red backdrop and a conspicuous white star that seems to wink at their romantic theatrics.
Description: A masterfully detailed Northern Renaissance woodcut print by German artist Albrecht Dürer, originally published in 1498 as part of his groundbreaking Apocalypse series (Apocalipsis cum figuris). The illustration visualizes scenes from the biblical Book of Revelation, showcasing an angel holding a massive key and a heavy chain to lock away a horned, multi-headed dragon-like beast into the abyss, while another angel up on a hill gestures toward a sprawling, fortified medieval city in the background.
Description: This beautifully crafted 1785 court portrait by Spanish painter Mariano Salvador Maella, created in Aranjuez when the Infanta was only ten, depicts her shortly after her engagement to Prince João of Braganza, who would later become King John VI of Portugal.
Carlota Joaquina, Infanta of Spain and Queen of Portugal Phone Case
$17 $23
Description: The front cover of the Argosy All-Story Weekly pulp magazine from June 11, 1921 (Volume 134, Number 5) bursts with drama and flair. A dapper gentleman in formal dinner wear is heroically—or perhaps desperately—yanking a dazzling, wide-eyed woman away a lively restaurant or ballroom where an all-out brawl is erupting behind them. Think elegance meets chaos, with a side order of flying fists.
Description: The January 1943 front cover of Dime Mystery Magazine (Volume 28, Number 2) showcases classic “weird menace” flair from pulp illustrator Milton Luros. In this dramatic scene, a wide-eyed auburn-haired woman in a bright yellow shirt finds herself face-to-bandaged-face with an Egyptian mummy, while the stone wall behind them proudly sports an ancient Egyptian figure—clearly enjoying the show.
Description: The front cover of Spicy Stories magazine from August 1932 boasts lively pin-up art by illustrator Raymond Albert Burley, showcasing a blonde bombshell in a daring red and gold military-style drum major outfit, baton in hand, ready to lead the parade—or maybe just cause a little uproar.
Description: The October 4, 1930 cover of Argosy magazine explodes with pulp drama courtesy of master illustrator Paul Stahr. A soldier grins ear to ear as he operates a mounted machine gun in the middle of a chaotic street brawl, while elegant Chinese pagodas rise serenely in the background—proving that even in the thick of combat, location is everything.
Description: The cover for the January 1934 issue (Volume 4, No. 2) of the classic hero-pulp magazine The Phantom Detective, from Standard Magazines, boasts a delightfully bizarre Rafael deSoto masterpiece. Picture this: a smoking gun, a skeleton in a snappy tuxedo grinning like he just told the world's worst joke, crooning into a vintage ring microphone, while a chorus line of ghostly, horrified faces hovers in the background like they’ve just realized they’re at the wrong party.
Description: The July 1933 cover of the legendary pulp magazine Adventure, courtesy of The Butterick Publishing Company and the brush of Hubert Rogers, is a historical meet-and-greet gone wild. At center stage sits a stately desktop globe, clearly the VIP of the party, while five time-traveling guests pose dramatically around it: a swaggering Spanish conquistador in his shiny morion helmet, a crusader knight jingling in chainmail, a Viking rocking an utterly impractical horned helm, a 17th-century pirate who’s probably eyeing the globe for treasure routes, and a Puritan-era cavalier explorer looking like he’s late for a very important sermon.
Description: The debut issue (Volume 1, No. 1) of the short-lived aviation adventure pulp magazine Captain Combat boasted a cover so dramatic it could make even a hangar blush. Painted by the renowned aviation illustrator Frederick Blakeslee, the World War II scene captures an American warplane gleefully swatting a massive, flaming German flying-wing out of the sky, like a fiery piñata bursting into smoke.
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: The September 1937 cover of Spicy Mystery Stories, courtesy of Culture Publications, is a delightful slice of “weird menace” history. Crafted by the illustrious pulp artist Harry Lemon Parkhurst, it features a blonde damsel swaddled in a sheer blue cloth, wide-eyed at the sight of a skeleton in a leather harness brandishing a blade—proof that even the undead can’t resist a flair for dramatic fashion.
Description: The March 1938 cover of the pulp fiction magazine Spicy Mystery Stories, courtesy of Culture Publications, flaunts a dramatic scene painted by the legendary Hugh Joseph Ward (H. J. Ward). A sinister figure in a red hood lurks behind a woman in a light blue two-piece undergarment, dagger poised—proving that even in pulp fiction, fashion and danger make quite the odd couple.
Description: The October 1935 issue of the pulp crime magazine *Prison Life Stories*, wrangled into shape by none other than Sing Sing’s own Warden Lewis E. Lawes, sports a cover by Hugh Joseph Ward that’s pure melodrama: a stern-faced cop in a crisp blue uniform squints at a mysterious document while a couple of shifty characters lounge in a bright red car, probably wishing they’d picked a less conspicuous getaway vehicle.
Description: The December 1, 1928 cover of The Saturday Evening Post flaunts a delightfully dramatic scene, courtesy of famed American illustrator Elbert McGran Jackson. His “Dancing Couple” captures an 18th-century baroque duo mid–back-to-back dance-off, the lady twirling in a mountain of ruffled red fabric like a crimson tornado, seemingly challenging her partner to survive the routine without face-planting in his own elaborate footwear.
The Saturday Evening Post Magazine Cover (December 1, 1928) Phone Case
$17 $23
Description: A romantic, academic oil-on-canvas painting by Flemish-Belgian artist Henri Decaisne (1799–1852) depicts a serene and spiritual scene. In the artwork, a radiant guardian angel watches protectively over a sleeping young child nestled in bed, while a mother rests peacefully beside them.
Description: The July 1947 cover of New Western Magazine, from Popular Publications, delivers a wild dose of pulp mayhem courtesy of an anonymous artist. Front and center is William Heuman’s lead tale, “That Big Muddy Gun-Devil!”—and boy, does the illustration deliver. In a blacksmith shop that’s clearly not OSHA-approved, a brawny, shirtless hammer-wielder prepares to introduce a blonde cowboy to the concept of “instant headache,” while said cowboy frantically fumbles for his revolver like it’s the last piece of pie at a county fair.
Description: The vintage cover of the March 13, 1926 issue of Liberty Magazine features a delightfully humorous painting by Frederic Stanley. In a dentist’s waiting room, a nurse in spotless white stands in the doorway, while two mischievous boys on opposite benches gleefully point fingers at each other—each desperately nominating the other to be the first victim of the fearsome dentist’s chair.
Description: The April 1942 cover of Detective Short Stories bursts with Norman Saunders’ dramatic flair, showcasing Dale Clark’s lead tale, “Death Hires a Dancehall.” In this pulp fiction melee, a blond hero socks a pistol-toting villain mid-chaos, while a startled woman in a sunny yellow top and fiery orange skirt wields a hefty film projector like it’s the hottest new dance craze.
Description: The March 1954 cover of Crime Case Book Magazine, brought to life by Norman Saunders for Walter Gibson’s “The Castle of Horrors,” delivers classic pulp mayhem: a wildly suspicious bearded doctor brandishing a syringe like it’s his magic wand of doom, closing in on a wide-eyed woman sprawled on an examination table who’s clearly rethinking her life choices.
Description: The vintage cover illustration for the January 12, 1923 issue (Whole No. 25) of the romance and melodrama pulp magazine "I Confess," published by Dell Publishing and illustrated by Charles Clyde Squires, showcases a striking headline for the lead story "The Queen of Wheats." It presents a stylized, close-up portrait of a 1920s flapper woman gazing upward, set against a vivid orange background adorned with elegant white icicles.
Description: The August 1938 issue of Spicy Detective Stories features the thrilling tale “Rat Bait” by Dale Boyd, with cover illustration that turns a locker room into a stage for high drama—or perhaps a bizarre beach party gone wrong. A scowling man brandishes a gun, cornering several women clad in swimsuits and sporty visors, as if the mystery were deciding who forgot their towel.
Description: An expressionist vintage Swiss art exhibition poster created by Maurice Barraud, featuring a stylized woman in a blue dress holding a large hand fan over her head while a small monkey walks beside her. The lithograph advertised his upcoming opening night on April 18, 1916, at the Galerie Moos in Geneva
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.
