EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 30 © 2020 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

6 Those were the adventure pulps? You know, it’s interesting everyone calls them the ‘adven‐ ture pulps’, and I believe all that’s fine. After all, I’m known as the Godfather of the Adventure Pulps. The pulp magazines as we know it, really started in the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s, and was called that because the paper was pulp. After World War II they just about folded, and I didn’t get out of school until 1950. So, in actual life, I never did a single pulp cover or inside illustration for a pulp magazine ( laughs ). But, for some reason, the subject mat‐ ter was the same with the adventure stuff, and a bunch of men’s adventure magazines came out that filled that void, I guess, but they all had slick paper. Some were really good magazines that had some of the absolutely best writers and artists working for them, and yet, in retrospect, at this point in time, they are still called pulps ( laughs ). I mean, they hired Hemingway, Philip Wylie and Sax Rohmer, and some of the best writers around. In fact, I had a dear FACING PAGE: Amazon’s Forbidden Stone Age World, gouache on board. Interior illustration in Stag , April 1964. ABOVE: The Missing Private , gouache on board, 1957. Interior illustration showing Künstler’s uncanny use of light and shadow.