australian pulp – SMB Noir

4 Little Sisters

reissues normally do not use a different version from the same photo shoot

cover art by George Gross

cover art attributed to Barye Phillips

1960 Horowitz hardcover, this the US Signet release that same year.

cover painting by Barye Phillips

cover art by Ron Lesser

Original paperback art by Ron Lesser. The model was Lesser’s wife, Claudia.

pen name of Milton K. Ozaki

cover art by Walter Popp

better image than previously posted

1956 Phantom paperback original from Australia

a number of changes to the cover:

– plant to phone in bottom left corner

— her hair is smoother

–yellow dress to red

–bracelet changed

–jewelry box different color

–background changed to window

–background table different, books different, bookend gone

–front table different

— mantle and logs different

–colors brighter and smoother

“The Marvelous Boy.” Cover art for the book of the same name by Peter Corris, published by Fawcett in 1982. Acrylic on board. 533×305 mm; 21×12 inches, on 22 3/4×15-inch board. Signed “Hooks” in lower right image.

3rd (of 42) in the long-running private eye series [owner’s copy]

The Fast Buck, paperback cover, 1952
tempera on board, 19 x 11.25 in. (sight), Signed twice lower left

This illustration was published as the cover for The Fast Buck by Ross Laurence, Ace D-29, 1952, as well as the basis for the Australian edition of the novel with the same title and author, Phantom Books No. 660.