But Crair is probably best known for the hundreds of terrific men’s adventure cover and interior paintings he created from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. He also painted paperback covers, movie posters and illustrations for mainstream magazines. We’ll start with some wild Nazi cover art by artist Mel Crair (1923-2007).Īs noted in the best online bio of Crair, on David Saunders’ great Pulp Artists site, he started out doing magazine covers for some of the last of the all-fiction pulp magazines, especially Western pulps. Many of the original paintings we’ll be showing you in these posts have only been seen by the artists and the handful of magazine editors and collectors through whose hands they passed. So, in a recent conversation I had with Rich, we decided to do a series of posts on this blog that show more of the wild B&T artwork he has in his collection, along with the covers they were used for. And, only some of those are sweat-style bondage and torture paintings. A few, like Norm Eastman, Norman Saunders and Basil Gogos did quite a lot of it.Ī large percentage of the original men’s adventure magazine paintings that still exist are owned by Rich Oberg, the greatest collector of men’s adventure artwork in the world.Įxamples from his collection are shown in the two must-have books about men’s adventure periodicals: It’s a Man’s World and Men’s Adventure Magazines in Postwar America.īut those books only show a small sampling of the pulp art treasures preserved in Rich Oberg’s huge collection. Many artists who created cover paintings and interior illustrations for the men’s adventure magazines did at least some sweat-style bondage and torture art.
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