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Category: Illustration Art
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…
Look Here: Two SF covers with arresting airbrushed artwork by… ?
I’m not a big fan of pure airbrushed artwork, but here are two airbrushed SF covers — from 1970 and 1979 respectively — that recently caught my eye as I was browsing through my very own library of paperback “classics,” looking for stuff to scan and share:
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Please note that neither of the above paperbacks includes a formal credit for the cover artist. Yes, the artwork on Bill, the Galactic Hero is signed “McMACKEN,” or “McMALKEN,” but I have no idea who McMacken/McMalken is…
UPDATE (07 August 2013):
I can’t say for sure, but my best guess at this point is that the McMacken who produced the cover art for Bill, the Galactic Hero is Dave McMacken. Widely admired in his early career for his skill with an airbrush, McMacken is perhaps best known for his cover illustrations for albums such as Frank Zappa’s Over-Nite Sensation, The Commodores’ Natural High, AC/DC’s Ballbreaker, Cat Stevens’ Greatest Hits, Warrant’s Dog Eat Dog, The Bullet Boys’ Freak Show, Weather Report’s Black Market, The Beatles’ Reel Music, Steve Miller’s The Joker for Steve Miller, and Kansas’s Leftoverture. Some might also remember his poster for Steven’s Spielberg’s 1941.
Look Here: Five occult paperbacks by Peter Saxon, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones
I’ve posted some of these covers before, but I recently purchased some copies that, in a couple of instances, and for various reasons (like this, for example), are nicer than the books I scanned previously, so here I am to share with you:
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Bon appétit!
Look Here: Two “Venus” covers by Esteban Maroto
From the paperback collection of yours truly, here are two covers, freshly scanned:
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Connections: Richard V. Corben
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It’s not every day that a dino-lizard-monster rises out of the earth and attacks… not in my neck of the woods, anyway…
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