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).
cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
better image than previously posted
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~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Bracelets for Two”, 25th of 73 stories with Ed Jenkins, with his wife Helen Chadwick, 38th of 99 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “Black Riddle”, last of 4 Continental Op stories that will go together to make up The Dain Curse (Knopf hc, 1929), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 39th of 51 stories in BM
~ Carl L. Martin, “Still Buzzards”, Deputy Lon Havens, Drew County, Bayou country, and friends in the delta, 5th of 6 in BM
~ Earl and Marion Scott, “Brewed at Benetti’s”, 1st of 6 stories with ‘Phil Craleigh, once brilliant lawyer, now a drunk, given to bouts of reform’, 4th of 17 stories in BM as a couple
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “On the Spot”, ‘Gary Greer; 1st (of 9) in the Laughing Dead series, presented as separate stories rather than conventional serial; pub. As Five (1931) under the pseudonym of Temple Field’, 26th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]. Reprinted in Laughing Death (Steeger Books, 2021).
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