Category: pulp

January 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

January 15, 1935

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Hard as Nails” (Gilbert E. Best)

Norbert Davis, “The Gin Monkey” (Max Clark)

Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Corpse Clue” (Morton & McGarvey)

Frederick C. Davis, “Tracks of the Turtles” (Oke Oakley)

Oscar Schisgall, “Murder as the Crow Flies” (Phil Drury)

Michael Kennedy, “Bodyguard” (Det. Cassidy)

July 1943 issue ~ cover art by Modest Stein

July 1943

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”

March 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1942

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)

cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

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