December 2, 2024 – SMB Noir

April 1930 issue

1953 Doubleday hardcover, this a later, 1955, reprint

also released as A Big Hand for the Corpse by the Detective Book Club in 1955

“George Bagby” was one of the pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein, who also published as Hampton Stone

cover art by Victor Kalin

better image than previously posted

1988 Vortex comics, an erotic crime series written and drawn by Chaykin

better image than previously posted

Gina Lollobrigida in The Law (1960), illustration by Yves Thos

cover art by Norman Saunders

first of only five issue

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1960 Horowitz hardcover, this the US Signet release that same year.

cover painting by Barye Phillips

cover art by Ron Lesser

Original paperback art by Ron Lesser. The model was Lesser’s wife, Claudia.