Category: original art

1950 Venus digest – cover art by Howell Dodd

1950 Venus digest

cover art by Howell Dodd

better image than previously posted

originally published as Passion’s Slave by Exotic Novel, February1950?

cover art by George Gross

cover art by Robert Stanley

oil on board, 16×12.25″

Kate by Chet Kinsey (Beacon books edition, #B225, 1959)

artwork repurposed for Student Nurses by Gail Jordan [aka Peggy Gaddis] (Uni books #37 1952)

The dates given for these works makes no sense. If the original cover was for a 1959 paperback (which seems likely as the artwork matches), then how could the second book be from 1952? The only way that works is if the “original artwork” is the retouched work from the 1952 book…

February 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Watercolor on Illustration Board, Image Size: 9″ x 12.5″ an a board measuring 13.25″ x 17.25″

February 1945 issue

cover art by  Rafael DeSoto

Frederick C. Davis, “Where There’s a Will There’s a Stay” (Barney Chance)

E. Hoffman Price, “My Body Lies Over the Ocean” (Hank Brewer)

D.L. Champion, “Upstairs to Murder” (Insp. Allhoff)

Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Switch” (Doc Pierce)

Robert C. Dennis, “Too Cold to Live”

K. Webster, “Clock-out for Death”

Joel Murcott, “Big Killing”

better image than previously posted

cover art by Norman Saunders

oil on board, 16″ X 21″

unidentified 1950s pulp magazine cover, similar composition to a September 1950 Black Mask issue, so perhaps this was an earlier version of the idea?

Oil on board, 21-1/4 x 14-3/8 inches (54.0 x 36.5 cm) (sight)
Not signed

[cover updated 1/30/26]