December 3, 2024 – SMB Noir

January 1952 issue

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cover art by Reginald Heade

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Robert Montgomery and Audrey Totter in The Lady in the Lake (1947).

cover art by Paul Stahr

1957 Simon and Schuster hardcover, this the 1960 softcover reprint.

Quentin was the pseudonym Hugh Wheeler

back cover says the cover art is by Robert McGuire but it doesn’t look like his work.

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Gouache on board, 21 x 16 inches (53.3 x 40.6 cm)
Signed center left: Ace Bran

1972, Jim Brown stars as Gunn, a nightclub owner out for vengeance after the murder of his brother-in-law

cover art by J. George Janes

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