
1944 Avon reissue
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1965 Allied Artists, one sheet 27×41″

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).


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cover art by Graves Gladney
Norman A. Daniels, “Line-Up Murder”
Kenneth Robeson (Paul Ernst), “House of Death” (Richard Henry Benson /The Avenger)

cover art by Arnold Lorne Hicks
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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”