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DescriptionGeorge Rozen was one of the great artists of the Pulp era, one of the finest artists of his generation, and was THE artist of The Shadow.Here he tackles one of my favs... The Phantom Detective! This is a tightly finished pencil prelim for the cover of The Phantom Detective from April 1943. Amazing detail shown in this 7.5 X 9.5 image. I've also scanned the actual Pulp from my collection so you can see the published color version. I'll be adding some of my Pulp art over the next few weeks. The work of these artists from that era is so incredible and needs to be remembered as not just the forerunner of Comic Book art, but great American art as well. The Phantom Detective was the second pulp hero magazine published, after The Shadow. The first issue was released in February 1933, a month before Doc Savage, which was released in March 1933. The title continued to be released until 1953, with a total 170 issues. This is the third highest number of issues for a character pulp, after The Shadow, which had 325 issues, and Doc Savage, which had 181. (This count does not take Western Pulps into account) There are many parallels to Batman who was created years later. In fact the Bat-Signal was essentially lifted from the pages of the Phantom Detective. Social/Sharing |
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Marcus Wai 
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 6/16/2021
Like an archaeologist, your find should be treasured and preserved here for all to see. This artifact of the pulp era shows Rozen's thought and creative process of telling a story on the cover to entice readers. The hand on the knife was an element that I saw as adding confusion as well and good thing the published painting was changed. It would have sent us the wrong message about their thought process many decades later if they couldn't have seen that problem.
Larry Wilson
Member Since 2012
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1 - Posted on 6/16/2021
Marcus Wai wrote:
Like an archaeologist, your find should be treasured and preserved here for all to see. This artifact of the pulp era shows Rozen's thought and creative process of telling a story on the cover to entice readers. The hand on the knife was an element that I saw as adding confusion as well and good thing the published painting was changed. It would have sent us the wrong message about their thought process many decades later if they couldn't have seen that problem.
You are correct!
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