better image than previously posted
cover art by Modest Stein
Maxwell Grant (Theodore A. Tinsley), “The Golden Doom (Kent Allard/The Shadow)
Norman A. Daniels, “Murder in the Crystal”
Stephen Gould, “Death in Panama” (Sheridan Doome)
Jack Storm, “Murder Needs a Corpse”
better image than previously posted
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Robert Reeves, “Over a Barrel” (Bookie Barnes)
John K. Butler, “The Corpse That Couldn’t Keep Cool” (Steve Midnight)
Norbert Davis, “Have One on the House ” (Bail Bond Dodd)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Pressure Island” (Colonel Kaspir)
Jan Dana, “Corpse of a Different Killer” (Acme Indemnity Op)
The Big Fix, paperback cover, 1960
Watercolor and gouache on board
10 x 13-3/4 inches (25.4 x 34.9 cm) (image)
Signed with pseudonym lower right
The present work is published on the cover of The Big Fix by Ed Lacy (Pyramid, 1960). It was also republished as an interior illustration in ‘The Demonstration’, Man’s Magazine, May 1964.
[background colored in by some nitwit…]
updated 12/20/23
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