{"id":3504,"date":"2014-04-01T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2014-03-28T18:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T22:29:51","slug":"adventure-september-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2014\/04\/01\/adventure-september-1913\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Adventure’ (September 1913)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Gerrit
Gerrit A. Benecker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Adventure<\/a><\/em> is often called the greatest of the pulp magazines because of its excellent fiction. Time<\/em> magazine dubbed it the “No. 1 pulp<\/a>” in 1935, upon Adventure<\/em>‘s 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n

Adventure<\/em> first appeared in November 1910 and continued as a pulp for 753 issues, until March 1953. (After that, it segued into a run-of-the-mill men’s adventure magazine.)<\/p>\n

In addition to its acclaimed stories, Adventure<\/em> also featured Great Pulp Art<\/a> on many of its covers.<\/p>\n

Today’s installment features the September 1913 number of Adventure<\/em>. It’s not your typical pulp cover.<\/p>\n

\"Adventure<\/p>\n

The painting lacks the usual action, replacing it with subtle humor. It also lacks the billboard of blurbs for the stories inside. The cover is a nice respite from the lurid, with the face on the simple, white canvas jumping out at you from the newsstand.<\/p>\n

Gerrit A. Benecker<\/strong> painted it. A few years later, he would become well known for inspirational posters during World War I. (His most famous, “Sure! We’ll Finish the Job<\/a>,” for the war bond effort sold more than 3 million copies.)<\/p>\n

Benecker produced over 150 covers for magazines as diverse as Adventure<\/em>, Scientific American<\/em> and Harper’s Weekly<\/em>, and another 500 fine art paintings (he excelled in portraits) during his career. He died at age 52 in 1934.<\/p>\n

He painted at least one other Adventure<\/em> cover for the Sept. 1, 1917, number — a similarly circular image<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I may have to revisit Adventure<\/em> in a future installment of Great Pulp Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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