Ah, yes. What a genre. I have one example buried deep in some nook around here somewhere, from maybe about 1965. I recall that coffee-table book that came out, documenting the various covers, but never got it. Perhaps a tad too tawdry for my tastes. Although I love the older pulp covers, sporting the old Norman Saunders style of cover art. Not that some of the 1930s horror pulp covers didn’t get a bit too tackily gruesome at times as well. I have a few issues of “Dime Mystery” and “Terror Tales,” but their covers are luckily not ‘too’ tasteless.
***but their covers are luckily not ‘too’ tasteless.***
I have the coffee table book (IT’S A MAN’S WORLD).
http://javasbachelorpad.com/itsamansworld.html
It is great and some of the info, such as the claim that a purchaser of a magazine took four seconds to glance over all those offered, so the covers had to reach out and “grab” his attention.