{"id":1815,"date":"2012-06-01T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2012-06-01T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:08:09","slug":"soldiers-of-fortune-february-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2012\/06\/01\/soldiers-of-fortune-february-1932\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Soldiers of Fortune’ (February 1932)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest installment of Great Pulp Art takes a turn to the East.<\/p>\n

It’s the cover for the February 1932 number of Soldiers of Fortune<\/em><\/a>. And, as you can see, it features a samurai warrior, illustrating an Arthur J. Burks<\/strong><\/a> story.
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Rather than an action cover typical of many pulps, this is more of a character study. You can sense the potential energy surging through the samurai, who seems to be stalking someone or on the verge of attack.<\/p>\n

\"\"Gerard Curtis Delano<\/strong> painted the striking \u2014 yet sparse \u2014 cover, which immediately focuses your attention on the face of the samurai. It’s a style you can see reflected in his fine art paintings of the West. The Massachusetts-born artist moved to Colorado in 1933 as magazine work dried up during the Depression. There he began painting Navajo and other Western scenes. He died in 1972.<\/p>\n

It’s the unusual subject matter and the excellent artistry of Delano that make this Great Pulp Art<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Soldiers of Fortune<\/em>, by the way, lasted only four issues from October 1931 to May 1932, with the February number being the third. Delano painted all four covers. It was a Clayton magazine, edited by Harry Bates<\/strong><\/a>. (Clayton also published under the imprints Climax, Clues Inc., Borden, National Novels, Publishers’ Fiscal, Readers’ and Three Star.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest installment of Great Pulp Art takes a turn to the East. It’s the cover for the February 1932 number of Soldiers of Fortune. And, as you can see, it features a samurai warrior, illustrating an Arthur J. Burks story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-pulp-art","category-pulps"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}