cover art attributed to J.W. Scott but it looks like Delos Palmer to me
better image than previously posted
[image updated 10/29/265]
August 1937 issue
Category: updated
introducing Peter Chambers x 7
1947 Simon and Schuster hardcover
Kane’s debut novel and debut of Chambers
better image than previously posted
1950 Boardman hardcover from Britain – cover art by Denis McLoughlin
Kane’s first with private eye (Kane preferred “private Richard”) Peter Chambers, a 1947 Simon & Schuster hardcover. The title was changed for the revised 1956 Avon softcover.
cover art by Ray Johnson
1955 Boardman paperback – Denis McLoughlin cover art
1960 Avon reissue – cover art by Ray Johnson
better image than previously posted
December 1935 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
March 1937 issue ~ cover art by William E. Luberoff
August 1936 issue ~ cover art by Blaine (Norman Saunders)
September 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
[cover updated, title post added 4/29/25]
October 1931 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
cover art by George Gross
George Gross (American, 1909-2003)
oil on canvas, 16-1/2 x 12-1/8 inches (41.9 x 30.8 cm) (image), not signed
George Gross originally created this work for use as the cover of the October, 1952 issue of the pulp digest Special Detective. After publication, as was a common practice, he reworked the background slightly, adding grey curtains to the upper edges of the scene.
[cover updated 5/22/26]
In this final form, the work got a second life as paperback cover art for The Mistress by Colin Ross (Beacon Books, 1958).
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