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[updated with original art 5/7/24]
JOHN WALTER SCOTT (American, 1907-1987)
Mystery Tales, May 1939
Oil on canvas
29.5 x 20.5 in.
Not signed
better image than previously posted
August 1959 issue
cover art by Robert Maguire?
better image than previously posted
Ed Lacy, “Killer Nymph”
Fletcher Flora, “Redheads on the Rocks”
Gil Brewer, “Harlot House”
Alex Austin, “The Only Junkie in Town”
Talmage Powell, “A Cell to Go Home To”
C.B. Gilford, “Die Slow, Sucker”
H.A. DeRosso, “Stakeout”
Simon Danghy, “The Devil to Slay”
Thomas Elliot, “Sailor Boy”