{"id":710,"date":"2007-02-10T12:46:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T12:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/archives\/710"},"modified":"2007-02-10T12:46:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T12:46:48","slug":"featured-cover-mystery-men-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/archives\/710","title":{"rendered":"Featured Cover, Mystery Men #10"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mystery
\nMystery Men #10 (May 1940) by Joe Simon<\/p>\n

I was pleasantly surprised by a gift I received not too long ago from my niece. It was a calendar with a pulp art theme. I had never mentioned to her any interest in pulp art. In fact it is area of Americana that I have not dealt with very much. Anyway the calendar had some great art and was much appreciated. Then while in a book store I spotted “Pulp Art” by Robert Lesser. Well I really have too many books and even with its great price I was reluctant to buy it. That was until I spotted the painting from The Mysterious Wu Fang (see image below). Then I could not resist it, after all now I could consider the book as part of my Simon and Kirby research.<\/p>\n

Now there is are four years between these two publications. Did Joe pick up a copy at a used book store or had he kept a copy from when it first came out? Who can say, but there is little doubt that Joe liked the image.<\/p>\n

But there was also an unexpected link. When I looked at caption to the illustration of this painting in Lesser’s book it said the original was from the Steranko collection. Seems like Jim and Joe have similar tastes.<\/p>\n

\"The
\nThe Mysterious Wu Fang (March 1936) by Jerome Rozen from the book Pulp Art by Robert Lesser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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