Pulp Portraits: My Gun Is Funny
January 18, 2012 by admin
Filed under Funny Pictures
Some cool funny images images:
Pulp Portraits: My Gun Is Funny
Image by Terry McCombs
Back in the 30’s publisher Street & Smith offered hundreds of the oil paintings that some of their pulp had been based on for sale very cheep, no one bought a single one, then they lowered the price to something like 5 for a dollar, no one bit, then they said “take them for free” no one did, so they burned the lot.
`sigh’
There were some great images on those covers, and if you had just one of those original oil painting you could buy a new car with the profit from selling it.
Thinking about that I used the G.I.M.P. image manipulation program to take some old pulp covers and get rid of the words and logos and whatnot just to get another look at them.
The Cover is from All Detective
Day 239/366 – Getty Images owns you
Image by Great Beyond
Not only is it funny because it’s true, but it’s also right in front of Getty’s front door (more or less).
Wizard World Anaheim 2011 – Mongoose funny car
Image by PopCultureGeek.com
photo 2011 PopCultureGeek.com
taken by Doug Kline
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bbmason1981 on Wed, 18th Jan 2012 8:51 am
Great idea. Some collectors have original paintings from other publishers and they are almost priceless now. Lots of recreations exist too.
dreaming_of_rivers on Wed, 18th Jan 2012 9:35 am
that is too funny.
n a r b o o on Wed, 18th Jan 2012 10:20 am
that’s great stuff on so many levels!!!!!