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BONUS IMAGES (A + B = C):
ANOTHER (SUPER) BONUS IMAGE (added 12 May 2013):
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AND HOW COULD I FORGET (added 07 June 2013):
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Connections: Max Beckmann and Art Saaf
Category: Book/Magazine Covers (All)
Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #71 to #79, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
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Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #66 to #70, with cover art by Joseph Doolin, et al.
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The cover of Jungle Comics #67 appears not to be by the same hand as the others. Online sources suggest that the artist might be Ruben Moreira. Whoever the artist was, however, the proportions and attitude of the male figure strongly suggest that he was a big fan of Burne Hogarth, who implemented in his comics and advocated in his art instruction books an idealized, observation-free method of figure construction that impressionable young artists really ought to avoid like the plague. Hogarth’s single-minded emphasis on concepts and construction ruined his own art; don’t let it ruin yours.
Also, I’m not entirely convinced that Jungle Comics #66 is by Doolin — which is why the file name does not include the name of the artist. The design and inking of the woman’s face suggests to me that the cover might be by a Filipino artist. But maybe it is by Doolin. Who knows?
Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #61 to #65, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
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Some sources credit the cover of Jungle Comics #64 to Matt Baker; others credit Joe Doolin. I flipped a coin, and it came up Doolin. Just so you know…
Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #54 to #60, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
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Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #49 to #53, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
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BONUS LINK:
David Saunders’ “Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists” includes a biographical sketch of Joseph Doolin (1896-1967).
Look Here: BONES OF FRANKENSTEIN, with cover art by Tony Masero
From our really big collection of really old paperbacks, here’s Donald F. Glut’s The New Adventures of Frankenstein No. 2: Bones of Frankenstein, with a lively and intense portrait of the “Frankenstein Monster” by Tony Masero on the cover:
Look Here: THE HANGING TREE, with cover art by E. Means
Whenever I’m browsing in stores that sell used books, I like to take a few minutes to rifle through the Western novels. I keep hoping that I’ll find some great Western covers, but more often than not, I’m disappointed. Turns out that, for the most part, the covers of Western novels are just not very interesting. But here’s an exception:
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The signature on the art looks to me to be “E. Means,” but I can find no information about a cover artist from the 1960s named E. Means on the Web. That cover, however, is killer!
Look Here: Three “Zanthar” paperbacks, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones
There were four books in the “Zanthar” series by Robert Moore Williams — Zanthar of the Many Worlds (1967), Zanthar at the Edge of Never (1968), Zanthar at Moon’s Madness (1968) and Zanthar at Trip’s End (1969) — but as far as I can determine, only the first, third, and fourth volumes had cover art by Jeffrey Jones. I’ve posted two of Jones’s “Zanthar” covers previously on RCN at a smaller size; now here are all three covers, re-scanned where necessary, and displayed in order of publication:
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Look Here: ASK ANY GIRL, with four different covers by Hilda Terry
From the paperback library of yours truly, four “In-Card” paperbacks with cover art by Hilda Terry:
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What’s an “In-Card”? Simply put, it’s a paperback book with a special cover that allows it to double as a greeting card and triple as a postcard. The following rough composite explains all:
I have more “In-Card” paperbacks, all with covers by Hilda Terry. So stay tuned for further “In-Card” posts… at a later date…
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