"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
From New Romances #11 (May 1952), here’s “My Empty Promise,” with art signed — and so, presumably, both pencilled and inked — by the great Alex Toth and script by the great unknown:
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From New Romances #10 (March 1952), here’s “Be Mine Alone,” pencilled by Alex Toth and inked by Mike Peppe from an uncredited script:
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Neither of the following novels from the collection of yours truly includes a cover credit, and if the art was signed by the artist, the signature has been cropped out by the designer; nonetheless, it seems likely to me that the artist is Joseph Lombardero, whose Sax Rohmer covers were featured here at RCN back in May of this year:
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ABOVE: Neal Bell, Gone to be Snakes Now (NY: Popular Library, c.1974), with cover art by Joseph Lombardero (attrib.).
ABOVE: Poul Anderson, The Worlds of Poul Anderson (NY: Ace, c.1974), with cover art by Joseph Lombardero (attrib.).
ABOVE: Poul Anderson, The Worlds of Poul Anderson (NY: Ace, c.1974), with cover art by Joseph Lombardero (attrib.).
As always, if you think/know that I’ve made an attribution error, I welcome your corrections in the comments.
This is the fifth post in a row here at RCN to feature a selection of William Teason’s Agatha Christie covers, which brings the total number of Teason scans in our collection to an uneven twenty one. Enjoy!
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Dead Man’s Mirror (NY: Dell, 1966), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage (NY: Dell, 1970), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective (NY: Dell, 1971), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder after Hours (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Tuesday Club Murders (NY: Dell, 1967), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death (NY: Dell, 1971), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Boomerang Clue (NY: Dell, 1975), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin (NY: Dell, 1979), with cover art by William Teason.
Four more scans, fresh off the flatbed:
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder in Three Acts (NY: Popular Library, 1934), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, N or M? (NY: Dell, 1968), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger (NY: Dell, 1968), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger (NY: Dell, 1979), with cover art by William Teason.
Two of the above novels — The Moving Finger (NY: Dell, 1968) and N or M? — include the following credit on the back cover: “Cover Illustration: Teason.” The other two covers are uncredited, but I believe they are also by Teason. If not, please let me know.
The cover art for the following mystery novels is uncredited, and I don’t see any sign of a signature, but my understanding is that the artist here is William Teason:
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Big Four (NY: Dell, 1972), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder on the links (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Tuesday Club Murders (NY: Dell, 1975), with cover art by William Teason.
If my attribution of the above covers to Teason is incorrect, please feel free to post the proper attribution in the comments section below this post. I have quite a few more Agatha Christie mysteries with covers in a similar vein that I plan to scan and post in the very near future, so if the artist here is NOT Teason, I’d prefer to make the correction sooner rather than later…
Freshly scanned… interesting how the photo-reference becomes more insistent with each successive cover here…
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ABOVE: John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor (NY: Ballantine Books, 1972), with cover art by Robert Foster.
ABOVE: John Norman, Outlaw of Gor (NY: Ballantine Books, 1972), with cover art by Robert Foster.
ABOVE: John Norman, Priest-Kings of Gor (NY: Ballantine Books, 1973), with cover art by Robert Foster.
To view all of the covers with art by Robert Foster that I’ve scanned and posted so far, click here.
BONUS SCAN:
Here’s a recent acquisition of mine that further illuminates Foster’s technical modus operandi:
The cover of Nomads of Gor isn’t just based on an underlying photomontage. It is a colourized photomontage.
Travelled a bit in the past few weeks. Stopped at a few bookstores. Bought a few books. Like these, for instance:
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ABOVE: Brian M. Stableford, To Challenge Chaos (NY: DAW Books, 1972), with cover art by Kelly Freas.
ABOVE: Brian M. Stableford, Promised Land (NY: DAW Books, 1974), with cover art by Kelly Freas.
ABOVE: Clifford D. Simak, The Werewolf Principle (NY: DAW Books, 1982), with cover art by Kelly Freas.
To view all of the covers with art by Kelly Freas that I’ve scanned and posted so far, click here.
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ABOVE: Keith Laumer, A Plague of Demons (NY: Paperback Library, 1971), with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, eds., World’s Best Science Fiction 1971 (NY: Ace, c1971), with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, eds., World’s Best Science Fiction 1971 (NY: Ace, c1971), with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, eds., World’s Best Science Fiction 1971 (NY: Ace, c1971), with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
To view all of the covers with art by Davis Meltzer that I’ve scanned and posted so far, click here.
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