pulp sketch by Glenn Craveth

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).

March 1941 issue ~ cover art by Graves Gladney

better image than previously posted

cover art by Graves Gladney

Norman A. Daniels, “Line-Up Murder”

Kenneth Robeson (Paul Ernst), “House of Death”  (Richard Henry Benson /The Avenger)

December 1930 issue ~ cover art by Arnold Lorne Hicks

December 1930

cover art by Arnold Lorne Hicks

better image than previously posted

Paul William Pickelle, “The Murder Wheel” 

William H. Stueber, “The Death Dodger” 

D. Reubens-Tayne, “Phoney Ice” 

Paul Ernst, “The Marrone Mob”   

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Muscling In”  

Henry Koslowsky, “The Cop Chopper”

Robert Morton, “Smokes” (Part 3 of 3) 

Frederic O. Schultze, “Third Degree Plus”   

Paul Whelton, “Safe Break”