Nice dramatic cover on this issue of DETECTIVE SHORT STORIES and a good group of authors inside: Donald Barr Chidsey, Philip Ketchum, Carl McK. Saunders (who I recently found out was also Philip Ketchum), Hugh B. Cave, and assorted others not familiar to me. I don't think I've ever read an issue of DETECTIVE SHORT STORIES, but it looks like a pretty good pulp.
Nice cover too. I wonder who the artist is?
ReplyDeleteStriking cover! I'd have grabbed that off the newstand for a dime. Could that cover be a Saunders?
ReplyDeleteI had the same thought, Curt. The composition sure looks like Saunders, but that issue isn't listed on the website devoted to him. Whoever painted it, I would have slapped my dime down for that issue without hesitation. Assuming, of course, that I had a dime.
ReplyDeleteThis cover is by J.W. Scott(1907-1987), not to be confused with H.W. Scott who was also a well known pulp artist. JW Scott's full name was John Walter Scott.
ReplyDeleteThe first pulp painting I ever bought was by J.W. Scott and it was used on the cover of COMPLETE DETECTIVE, 1939. Since then I've had a couple western cover paintings by J.W. Scott.
Thanks, Walker!
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