from Catherine Gale in “The Avengers” to Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, you have to believe she knew her stuff
1966 MacMillan hardcover
Category: hardcover
pulp art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)
Ernest Chiriacka – aka Darcy – (American, 1920-2010)
The Tussle
Watercolor and ink on board
15-1/4 x 13-3/4 inches (38.7 x 34.9 cm)
Signed with pseudonym lower right
The Girl in the Death Seat
The Girl in the Death Seat, paperback cover
Gouache on board
18-1/2 x 12-3/4 inches (47.0 x 32.4 cm) (image)
Not signed
The present work is on the cover of
The Girl in the Death Seat by Fan Nichols (Ace, 1961).
original title, Be Silent, Love
Simon and Schuster hardcover, 1960
pulp sketch by Glenn Craveth
Glenn Cravath (American, 1897-1964)
Dead-End Crime Stories, comic book cover preliminary, 1949
Mixed media on board
10-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches (26.0 x 19.1 cm)
Not signed
This study was done in preparation for the finished illustration that appeared on the cover of Dead End Crime Stories (Kirby Publishing Co., April 1949).
September 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
May 30, 1936 issue
first appearance of Raymond Chandler’s “Noon Street Nemesis”, which would later be reissued as “Pick-Up on Noon Street” for The Simple Art of Murder
1950 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first edition
surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff
SMB Noir 
