digest – Page 11

July 1956 issue

last of just four issues

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cover art by Dick Shelton

cover art by Malcolm W. Graveline

cover art by Ray Houlihan

Charles Raab art

Digest containing comic-formatted stories. Considered to be one of the very first graphic novels ever produced.

cover art by Tom O’Sullivan

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cover art by Paul Stahr

cover art by Norman Saunders

first of only five issue

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cover art by Ann Cantor

Art taken from paperback Murder Mystery Monthly #47 (1949), titled “The Blonde, The Gangster and the Private Eye” by Dale Clark.

pseudonym of Ronal Kayser

1946 Messner hardcover as The Red Rods

1949 Avon release with new title

Tempera on paper laid on board, 17 x 12.75 in. (sight)
Not signed

PROVENANCE: The artist, Connecticut.

Lay Down and Die! by Mark Reed, Falcon #26, 1952.

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