Frank Miller’s “Famous Detective Pin-Up” portfolio was published as PinUps at the back of Renegade Press’s “Ms. Tree Thrilling Detective Adventures”, #s 1-4, back in 1983.
Frank Miller’s “Famous Detective Pin-Up” portfolio
Tag: raymond chandler
Playback x 24
1958 Hamish Hamilton, true 1st edition
1958 Houghton Mifflin hardcover
1959 Brazilian edition in Portuguese
1960 Cardinal reissue – cover art by William Rose
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1961 Australian edition from Horwitz – cover art by Theo Batten
1965 British edition – cover design by Alan Spain
1968 Pyramid reissue – cover art by Joseph Lombardero
1975 Penguin edition – cover design by James Tormey
1977 Ballantine reissue, 1st print (owner’s copy) – cover art by Richard Waldrep
later 1977 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams
late 8os UK Penguin reissue
1999 Scandinavian edition (unsure of country)
2004 French graphic novel edition
[updated 3/8/26]
The Long Goodbye x 17
1953 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first edition of this novel
1954 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first US edition – (owner’s copy)
cover illustration by Lorraine
final Marlowe novel, an American classic and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel
1954 Hammish Hamilton book club edition
August 1955 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – (owner’s copy)
cover art by Tom Dunn
1964 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett
1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep
1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover design by James Tormey
1972 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1973 Ballantine movie tie-in reissue (owner’s copy)
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Richard Williams
1988 UK Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
The Little Sister x 15
1949 Hamish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first by three months – cover art by C.W. Bacon
1949 Houghton Mifflin hc, 1st edition – cover art by Boris Artzybasheff (owner’s copy)
1949 Pocket reissue – cover art by James Neil Boyle
1950 Pocket reissue – cover art by William Shoyer (owner’s copy)
1957 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Ballantine reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Colin Thomas
1988 Vintage/ Black Lizard reissue
The Lady in the Lake x 14
1946 Pocket reissue – cover art by Tom Dunn
1959 Cardinal reissue – cover art by Morgan Kane
1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)
1979 Penguin UK reissue – cover by James Tormey
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams
1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
2010 Penguin Classics UK reissue
The Big Sleep x 27
1939 Knopf advanced reading copy
1939 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover
1942 Avon digest, Murder Mystery Monthly No.7, first softcover release of this American classic/ cover art by William Frost
1943 Avon paperback – cover art by Paul Stahr
1945 Knopf hardcover reissue – inscribed to director John Houseman
1948 Pocket reissue – cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)
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1950 Pocket reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Harvey Kidder (owner’s copy)
1962 Penguin UK reissue – cover art by John Sewell
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1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover designed by James Tormey
1973 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Amsel
watercolor cover art by Richard Waldrep, 13.75″ x 9.50″
1976 Vintage reissue (owner’s copy)
1976 Vintage trace paperback reissue
1979 Pan Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams
2009 Hammish Hamilton hardcover
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note ~ there are many, many more covers for this book, both in English and foreign languages… but I had to stop somewhere
1944 Avon digest
1945 Avon digest reissue, 2nd edition
Gathers “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot,” “Goldfish,” “Guns at Cyrano’s” “Nevada Gas” and “Spanish Blood,” five mystery stories first published in Black Mask Magazine
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Five Sinister Characters x 2
1945 Avon Murder Mystery Monthly digest
cover art by Paul Stahr
Avon Book Company, [1946]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second paperback edition. Avon #88. Published earlier by Avon in 1945 as part of their “Murder Mystery Monthly” series. Collects five stories; “I’ll Be Waiting,” “The King in Yellow,” “Pearls Are a Nuisance,” ” Red Wind,” and “Trouble is My Business.” Light crease to front cover, light stress creases to spine, a near fine copy.
December 1933 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft
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cover art by Fred Craft
~ John L. Chambliss, “The Contact”, NYC PI Schuyler Blake, only appearance in BM
~ Raymond Chandler, “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot”, his debut in BM, his first published writing, 1st of 2 with PI Mallory, 1st of 11 stories in BM, first book appearance in Five Murderers (Avon digest, 1944), reprinted in Red Wind (Tower hc, 1946), The Smell of Fear (Hamish Hamilton/UK hc, 1965), Midnight Raymond Chandler (Houghton Mifflin hc, 1971), The Black Mask Boys (Morrow, 1985)
~ Eugene Cunningham, “Chalk”, 2nd of 5 with undercover Texas Ranger Cleve Corby, 8th of 14 stories in BM
~ Tom Curry, “Clancy Takes the Air”, Clancy, NYPD 1st grade dick, author’s last of 39 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dead Men’s Shoes”, 53th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘The Phantom Crook’ with Ngat T’oy, 77th of 99 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder Again”, ‘L.A. County dicks; Hollywood story’, 65th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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August 1939 issue
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Carroll John Daly, “Gangman ’s Gallows” (Race Williams)
Raymond Chandler, “Trouble is My Business ” (John Dalmas)
Edward Ronns, “Three Doors to Doom”
O.B. Myers, “Fire and Ice”
Hugh B. Cave, “Deal from the Bottom”
D.L. Champion, “Laughter in Hell”
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