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Post by andydecker on Dec 26, 2012 10:09:32 GMT
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Post by Calenture on Dec 26, 2012 20:49:53 GMT
Cover by Boy de Haas?[/center] Here's one I'm now pretty sure of - Boy de Haas. Typing the name into Google brings up a number of sites hosting paperback covers, mostly of the sort appreciated here. Clicking the image above - perhaps you'll agree it benefits from enlargement? - will take you to a Boy de Haas Flickr site, whose owner says he's retired. He's also on FaceBlech (which I can't visit because I deleted my site there ages back). Added later: Blast. I'm sure I found that cover above credited to Haas but now I can't find it to add a confirming link. Have I fallen victim to that practise of randomly tagging books so that on Goodreads I appear to have written an entire Black Book of Horror (!) and Sean Hutson is credited as the writer of Back From the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories? For what it's worth Island of Fear looks like Josh Kirby's work while The Monster Club looks like Bruce Pennington's. Didn't Justin credit the latter cover in an early Paperback Fanatic? |
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Post by severance on Dec 27, 2012 18:21:51 GMT
Sorry Rog, but Boy de Haas is just a bloke on flickr with a very large book collection - a bit like me. But where I've only got just over 1,000 covers scanned there, he has over 4 times that many.
Isn't 'The Monster Club' a Tony Masero cover?
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Post by andydecker on Dec 27, 2012 19:59:56 GMT
Isn't 'The Monster Club' a Tony Masero cover? That is a possibilty. It really looks like him, now you mention it. - perhaps you'll agree it benefits from enlargement? - For what it's worth Island of Fear looks like Josh Kirby's work while The Monster Club looks like Bruce Pennington's. Didn't Justin credit the latter cover in an early Paperback Fanatic? Yes. Benefits a lot. I took the pics where I could find them. Unfortunatly Photobucket acted up again yesterday so I couldn't edit them. I really have to look the old PFs up. And the Pennington two parter. But I really can't remember seing it there. But I also have this slippery memory that I read the credit somewhere, maybe even here on the vault. I am just trying to identify them for a German series which put those pictures on, but of course uncredited. |
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Post by Calenture on Dec 28, 2012 1:29:27 GMT
Isn't 'The Monster Club' a Tony Masero cover? That is a possibilty. It really looks like him, now you mention it. You're both right, I'm wrong. Once you'd given me Tony Masero's name I found a few NEL Frankenstein's he'd painted. As for Boy de Haas, Sev's right about him, too. I should add that Josh Kirby is just a guess. I like the way attempting to answer one question usually gives rise to another one here. One of the Tony Masero covers in my collection is for The Sweetwater Point Motel by the pseudonymous 'Peter Saab'.. I first picked it up thinking maybe 'Peter Saab' was really Peter Straub. There wasn't a lot of evidence for that, I have to say. But it did start me wondering if his real name ever came to light. Googling only brought me straight back to Vault (ho hum, some things never change, right?) and not only that but to one of my own old posts on a Latest Finds thread, June 2008. I wondered why it looked familiar!  I refuse to quote myself from that thread!  Anyway, someone from this thread at Goodreads witnessed an exchange with Peter Straub on Twitter. See message 3 by Maureen: |
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Post by justin on Dec 28, 2012 15:34:29 GMT
The following are guesses...
Monster club by ray feibush, nels number one Pennington imitator
Island of death, josh kirby. Right publisher, right period, right style
A e van Vogt by jack fargasso as the mans figure looks like his work.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 31, 2012 9:36:56 GMT
Thanks all!
Island really looks like a Kirby. But it is not included in the Kirby Biblio which seems very comprehensive.
Feibush and Fargasso were new names to me. One really wonders how many artists did contribute covers in that era; it seems either you did only one or you did a truckload.
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