Stanley Meltzoff
Stanley Meltzoff (March 27, 1917 to November 9, 2006) was best known for marine paintings. James...
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Category: Paperback Illustrators
Frank McCarthy
There s no clear signature for the cover artwork of the Bantam edition of The Polar Treasure. The HTC would like you to consider Frank McCarthy.
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Hiram Richardson
Hiram Richardson illustrated the cover of the Bantam release Doc Savage Omnibus 6. Richardson...
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Roger Kastel
Roger Kastel painted a cover for Doc Savage Omnibus 3 and the poster for the film, Doc Savage: Man of Bronze.
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Joe DeVito
Joe DeVito (1957-present) has painted Doc Savage covers since 1991.
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Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo (1941- ) painted six Doc Savage covers for Bantam. Vallejo’s preferred...
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Douglas Rosa
William Douglas Rosa (1932-1977) painted two* Bantam covers in the Doc Savage series: The Lost...
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James Avati
James Avati, 1912-2005, painted a single Bantam Doc Savage cover, Meteor Menace. According to...
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Steven Assel
Steve Assel painted a single Doc Savage Bantam cover: Escape from Loki. According to an interview with Will Murray, Phillip Jose Farmer had Assel repaint the cover to remove a Tommy-gun that Savage was cradling and replace it with a .45 automatic. Murray said Farmer was “adamant that the cover faithfully reflect the story.”
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James Bama
James Bama is responsible for the image that many Bantam era Man of Bronze fans have when they think “Doc Savage.”
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Mort Kunstler
Unlike Doug Rosa, much is known about Mort Kunstler. His career as a historical painter made his name. Kunstler painted only a single Doc Savage cover for Bantam — Brand of the Werewolf. He can boast that novel sold the most copies of any single Bantam Doc Savage paperback.
Hidalgo Trading Company writer, Ron Hill, wrote that Kunstler’s cover was “too cartoon like.”
Kunstler’s official website does present his Doc Savage cover. The scan, however, isn’t from the original art. It’s obviously a worn and bent copy of the paperback.
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Bob Larkin
Bob Larkin’s first Bantam reprint cover was for The Magic Island (original title:...
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