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Tag: speed adventure stories

May 1944 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

May 1944

cover art by H.J. Ward

Posted on May 16, 2025May 10, 2025Categories action fiction, adventure, magazine, pulp, war fictionTags bound, dagger, lew merrill, racist imagery, speed adventure stories, WWII fictionLeave a comment on May 1944 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

January 1945 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

January 1945

cover art by H.J. Ward

cover altered from Oct. 1940 Spicy Adventure

Posted on December 19, 2024December 3, 2024Categories action fiction, adventure, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulp, science fictionTags bound, fucking nazis, h.j. ward, hugh b. cave, lew merrill, lugar, ray gun, speed adventure stories, spicy-adventure storiesLeave a comment on January 1945 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

July 1945 issue

July 1945

better image than previously posted

cover art by H.J. Ward, altered version of May 1942 issue of Spicy Adventure

Posted on October 27, 2024October 19, 2024Categories action fiction, adventure, Hardboiled, magazine, pulpTags edwin truett, h.j. ward, speed adventure storiesLeave a comment on July 1945 issue

January 1946 issue

January 1946

Posted on October 16, 2024October 3, 2024Categories action fiction, adventure, Hardboiled, magazine, pulpTags e. hoffmann price, kasbah, speed adventure stories, swordLeave a comment on January 1946 issue

July 1943 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

July 1943

cover art by H.J. Ward

Posted on September 5, 2024August 16, 2024Categories action fiction, adventure, Hardboiled, magazine, pulp, war fictionTags bullet holes, fucking nazis, lew merrill, lugar, speed adventure stories, WWII fictionLeave a comment on July 1943 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

April 1944 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

April 1944

cover art by H. J. Ward

better image than previously posted

[images updated 5/1/25]

Posted on August 3, 2024May 1, 2025Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags harley l. court, hollywood detective magazine, private detective stories, speed adventure stories, speed detective, speed mystery magazine, speed western stories, super-detective magazineLeave a comment on April 1944 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward

cover art by H.J. Ward

Speed Adventure Stories cover, November 1943
Oil on canvas, 30 x 21 in.
Signed lower right

Posted on April 29, 2024April 23, 2024Categories adventure, crime fiction, finest kind, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, original art, pulpTags flood, h.j. ward, lew merrill, oil on canvas, speed adventure storiesLeave a comment on cover art by H.J. Ward
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