Walter Baumhofer Pulp Art Masters Author:John P. Gunnison, Walter Baumhofer For just a few short years, Walter Baumhofer sprang into Pop Culture history as the first artist to imagine Doc Savage, The Man of Bronze. Baumhofer's unofficial title of King of the Pulps, was well earned, as most publishers were envious of those few firms that he painted covers and produced art that sold the magazines well beyond the stories t... more »hemselves. Because of his enormous talents, Walter Baumhofer made the move out of the pulps in the mid-thirties into the lucrative advertising and slick markets, but he left behind pulp covers that were imitated for years. Broken down to four chapters: Introduction (introduction to Walter and his influence on pulp art); "In The Beginning" (Walter's early work for Harold Hersey and William Clayton); a focus on his work for Street & Smith and his groundbreaking images for Doc Savage, as well as Pete Rice and others; and an entire section on Popular Publications and his last work in the pulps in titles like Dime Detective, The Spider, Dime Mystery and many others.« less