Sunday Night Trash

Cover art by Rudolph Belarski for Nurses Quarters digest.




Cover art by Rudolph Belarski for the Avon paperback Male Ward.


Below, two mid-1960's men's adventure magazine illustrations by Bill Edwards.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ace Comics #33, December 1939.




Cover for Saturday Magazine, November 22, 1913. Unknown artist.




Comic Cavalcade #18, December 1946.




Thanksgiving illustration by Arthur Sarnoff, no date.

The Doctor is In

Doctor Doom by John Buscema, n.d.




Psychoanalysis #1, April 1955. Cover art by Jack Kamen.




Dr. Octopus vs. Spiderman by Jim Mooney, n.d.




Dr. Solar: Man of the Atom #20, July 1967.




M.D. #4, November 1955. Cover art by Johnny Craig.




Cover for Dr. Strange Portfolio by Michael Golden, 1983.




Ben Casey daily by Neal Adams, January 4, 1966.




Painting of Dr. Kildare, unknown artist, n.d.

Convicts vs. Alligator!

Here is a painting of convicts fighting an alligator. The artist's name is Dick Kiel. This painting was probably done for a men's adventure magazine in the 1960's. There's really not much else to say about it, they don't do illustrations like this anymore.

Tales to Tremble By

The cover to this book scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. It was published by Whitman in 1966. I don't know who the artist on the cover was. The book has illustrations by someone named Shannon Stirnweis which are pretty lackadaisical, nothing like the cover. Not even worth scanning one to share here.

My brother got this book when I was around 7 or 8 years old. We went to the toy store for my birthday and I got the Zeroid Action Set. My brother got to pick out something too, and he got this book. I didn't even like being in the same house with it. Instead of running away from home, sometimes I'd try to hide the book, or go in his room to peek at it to freak myself out.

It actually has nice selection of classic ghost stories, including "The Hand" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" by Ambrose Bierce, and "The Judge's House" by Bram Stoker.

Below is the cover presented full-on in all of its kid-terrifying glory, and below that is scan of the whole wraparound cover.

My brother still has his copy of the book, I wish I still had that Zeroid set.

Gothic Romance Covers

I've been enjoying the blog Women Running From Houses. So here's some gothic romance art:




Art by Geoffrey Biggs for Wuthering Heights, Classics Illustrated #59, 1949.




Wuthering Heights paperback cover art by Robert McGinnis.




Cover art by Arthur Sarnoff for unknown romance book.




The Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #3, February 1972. Cover art by Jeff Jones.




Cover for The Silent Place by Rachel Cosgrove Payes, 1969. Art by George Gross.




Cover for Besides, the Wench is Dead by Margaret Erskine. Art by Harry Barton.




Another cover by Harry Barton.




Cover art for The Winds of Night by Anne Maybury, 1963. Unknown artist.

Sunday Science Fiction

Cover preliminary by Hannes Bok, 1950.




Production art for Vanguard Illustrated #2, January 1984. Art by Dave Stevens.




Devil Girl From Mars, 1955.




Weird Fantasy #21, September 1953. Cover art by Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson.



Cover for Science Fiction, June 1939. Artwork by Frank R. Paul.




Killers From Space, 1954.

Planes Trains Autos Boats!

Cover image from a 1936 coloring book published by Rand McNally. I love this illustration.

Deborah Harry

I've always like this picture of Debbie Harry. There's a picture of her by Andy Warhol in the background, I point that out because this blog is supposed to have something to do with art.

Sarnoff Summer!

Now that the Countdown to Halloween is over, here's a few summery images from Arthur Sarnoff for a change of pace: