My family are big fans of ABC’s comedy, Pushing Daisies, and we were thrilled when it returned for a second season two Wednesdays ago. I was even more thrilled at what I noticed while watching the season’s second episode: pulp magazine covers.
First is a quick glimpse of a trio of Texas Ranger covers on Ned the Piemaker’s bedroom wall a couple of minutes into the episode. Then a few minutes before the episode’s end, you can see an Amazing Stories cover on Ned’s living room wall. A moment later, you get a better look at the Texas Rangers covers in the bedroom again.
The Amazing Stories cover is from the October 1948 number. It’s impossible to tell whether it is the cover of the actual pulp, or one of the many reprint posters that seem to be available on eBay and elsewhere online.
I’m not familiar enough with Texas Rangers covers to quickly tell which issues those are. If someone recognizes them, please feel free to add the dates to the Comments portion of this entry.
(You can get a look at frame grabs showing the pulp covers by clicking on the image above.)
Unlike the Superman statue in Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment on Seinfeld, the pulp covers in Pushing Daisies don’t necessarily reveal that the show’s producers are pulp fans. The series’ set decorations are just as quirky as the series itself, so the sensational covers may have just appealed to the set designers.
Nonetheless, I can’t wait for this week’s episode to see if we get a better look at them, or if we see more elsewhere in Ned’s apartment.
– William
