From Strange Tales #28 (May 1954), here’s “With Knife in Hand,” with art by a 26-year-old Jack Katz, who went on to create the idiosyncratic 1970s underground epic, The First Kingdom:
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Out of Context: “Oh, please don’t!”
Look Here, Read: “Vampire Bride,” with art by Louis Zansky
From Web of Mystery #9 (May 1952), here’s “Vampire Bride,” with art by Louis Zansky:
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Happy Halloween 2012 from RCN!
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I have quite a few Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams, and sooner or later, I will scan them all for display here at RCN. So stay tuned, mystery lovers — and Tom Adams fans!
Look Here, Read: “Red Talons of Lupercalia,” with art by Louis Zansky
From Baffling Mysteries #11 (November 1952), here’s “Red Talons of Lupercalia,” with art by Louis Zansky:
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Look Here: THE DEVIL’S CHILDREN, with cover art by the great unknown
I scoured the shelves at the local thrift shops a few days ago, looking for some cheap horror paperbacks to scan and post in the days leading up to Halloween, but the only one I saw that featured an illustration that I sort of liked was the following uncredited cover for The Devil’s Children, edited by Michael Parry:
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I suppose it’s possible that the cover image is an early illustration by Alan Lee, though the rendering (in watercolour) is tighter, and displays a much wider range of values, than one usually encounters in Lee’s work. So, probably not by Lee. Unless it is.
Out of Context: “… and it succeeds!!”
The bad guys have a plan:
But later it’s Jan to the rescue:
Doesn’t look too good for that poor devil right now, but Jan did say it would take a few minutes for the victims to return to normal… a month or two, at the most…
Look Here, Read: “Bride of Horror,” with art by Benulis and Abel
From Ghost Comics #7 (1953), here’s “Bride of Horror,” with art by penciller Bill Benulis and inker Jack Abel:
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I imagine that the great James Steranko read a fair number of tales like this when he was a teenager, if you know what I mean…
Look Here: THE COSMIC ENGINEERS, with cover art by the great unknown
From the library of yours truly:
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The foreground figures in the above (uncredited and unsigned) illustration are tremendously effective; the background figures, not so much.
Out of Context: “It’s you or me, big shot…”
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