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Pulp Magazine Art AI image prompts

Lurid, fast-painted cover art for cheap pulp-paper magazines: damsels in peril, square-jawed heroes, ray-guns and revolvers under screaming logotypes. Sensational, high-contrast scenes built to grab a newsstand buyer in a half-second. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Pulp Magazine Art vocabulary.

Frank R. Paul — Amazing Stories cover (April 1926)

Copy-ready prompts

Midjourney
a poster in the Pulp Magazine Art style, pulp magazine cover, lurid painted scene, damsel in peril, bold slab logotype, oversaturated color, ray-gun sci-fi, detective noir, newsstand melodrama, painterly, lurid, high-contrast, melodramatic, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A poster in the Pulp Magazine Art style. Emphasize pulp magazine cover, lurid painted scene, damsel in peril, bold slab logotype, oversaturated color, ray-gun sci-fi, detective noir, newsstand melodrama. The mood is painterly, lurid, high-contrast, melodramatic. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a poster in the Pulp Magazine Art style, pulp magazine cover, lurid painted scene, damsel in peril, bold slab logotype, oversaturated color, ray-gun sci-fi, detective noir, newsstand melodrama, painterly, lurid, high-contrast, melodramatic, highly detailed, sharp focus
Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed

Pulp Magazine Art keyword vocabulary

Tap a keyword to collect it in the Designdeas prompt builder, then mix in your own subject.

Prompts for related styles

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