Mort Kunstler: Adventure Artist

Mort Kunstler is now famous for his romantic, stylized Civil War paintings. Early in his career he did lots of illustrations and covers for magazines like For Men Only and Stag. Here's some of those illustrations.

Amazing Comics #1

There's all kinds of stuff going on here.

Amazing Comics #1, Fall 1944. Cover art by Alex Schomburg.

A Tense Situation

An illustration by Ken Cowhey for a story called "Georgetown Heights." Penciled on the back is the title and a date "Jan '48." I don't know what magazine it appeared in.

Our Army At War: Early Covers

Early covers for DC's Our Army at War comic. The Bernie Krigstein cover for #13 is one of my all-time favorite comic book covers. Irv Novick's cover for #15 is pretty high on my list too.

Our Army At War #11, June 1953. Cover art by Irv Novick.

Our Army At War #12, July 1953. Cover art by Irv Novick.

Our Army At War #13, August 1953. Cover art by Bernie Krigstein.

Our Army At War #14, September 1953. Cover art by Jerry Grandenetti.

Our Army At War #15, October 1953. Cover art by Irv Novick.

Dynamic Science Stories

A classic cover by Frank R. Paul.

Dynamic Science Stories, February 1960.

Rock & Roll Stars by Tom Yeates

Three drawings by a then very young Tom Yeates. These appeared in Infinity #4 (1972) and Infinity #5 (1973). I bought those fanzines for the Wrighston and Kaluta art, but I was happy to find these pictures, they've always stuck with me for some reason over the years. Yeates is currently the artist on the classic newspaper strip Prince Valiant.

Ian Anderson

Jimi Hendrix

Bob Dylan

Robert McGinnis Paperback Covers

The Girl Who Kept Knocking Them Dead, 1959.

The Empty Trap, 1967.

The Girl on the Tower, 1960.

So Rich, So Lovely, and So Dead, 1961.

Murder Is My Business, 1963.

Murder Spins the Wheel, 1970.