The cover art on this 1959 Beacon edition, which does not depict a scene that occurs anywhere in the story, is by Fred Rodewald, and was adapted from a piece that originally appeared on a September 1949 cover of True Crime Cases.

Apr 22, 2009 · True Crime, three covers featuring the pulp staples of vice, frame-ups, exposés and ruthless blackmailers, circa 1955, 1956.

The woman who finds herself standing over a dead (or possibly drugged) man is a classic motif in true crime magazine cover art. Sometimes the woman is responsible for what’s happened, while other times she simply has the bad luck to stumble into the situation.

A Collection of True Crime Artwork Covers from the Golden Age of Detective Pulp Magazines

The cover story deals with Sherry Borden, who authors an autobiographical tale of descent into serial robbery. The art in Complete Detective Cases is posed by professional models. You can see more examples of these sort of publications by …

Here's a loot-sack full of interesting pulp covers, for titles that we don't yet have good long runs of. Some of the high (or maybe low) points of the pulp cover-artists' craft.

Feb 6, 2017 · True Detective started out publishing a mix of crime fiction and nonfiction. Eventually, fiction was phased out and True Detective became the first “true crime” magazine. Over 71 years, there were many covers that were painted by many different artists, some well-known and others forgotten.

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Nov 27, 2014 · For exactly one year, from cover date Nov/41 to Nov/42, Goodman utilized 11 painted covers across three different true-crime magazine titles. These covers are classic examples of period newsstand good-girl crime art, featuring gorgeous depictions of scantily clad women being menaced by unseen threats.

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