There are some questions regarding the cover artists for these Doc Savage pulp covers. What are your thoughts? I’ve groups the covers in question by who I propose was the actual cover artist.In a couple of cases, I haven’t hazarded a guess on the artist’s name. Modest...
Cue the fans who will yelp “Doc didn’t carry a gun!” 🙂 Truth is, Doc could shoot as well as anyone and while he didn’t carry a gun in most of the novels, it can’t be said he NEVER carried a gun. You can pick up this...
The image for the July 1942 cover was by artist Charles de Feo. As part of the “United We Stand” program, De Feo’s image graced the covers of all Street & Smith titles for July 1942. (And August 1942 for The Shadow magazine.) Find more examples of...
Stanley Meltzoff (March 27, 1917 to November 9, 2006) was best known for marine paintings. James Nobel suggested that Meltzoff painted the cover of The Lost Oasis. Though The Lost Oasis cover is usually credited to Doug Rosa, Nobel saw Meltzoff’s distinctive signature on the differently cropped...
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.
Harold Winfield Scott (January 14, 1897- November 15, 1977) is credited with a single Doc Savage pulp cover, The Mountain Monster. See PulpArtists.com for his biography.
George Jerome Rozen (1895-1973) was the twin brother of Jerome George Rozen. Both worked as pulp artists and George actually replaced Jerome as the primary Shadow cover artist. George was the last Doc Savage pulp cover artist with his paintings for The Green Master, Return From Cormoral,...
Charles J. Ravel is credited with five Doc Savage covers from August 1946 through December 1946…
Robert G. Harris (September 9, 1911 to December 23, 2007) painted numerous Doc Savage covers and was a fellow student with Emery Clarke and John Falter at the Kansas City Art Institute. Harris’s painting for The Sea Angel was reprinted as a giveaway for Doc Savage fans...
John Philip Falter (February 28, 1910 – May 20, 1982), more commonly known as John Falter, was an American artist best known for his many cover paintings for The Saturday Evening Post. He is credited for a single cover for Doc Savage Magazine: The South Pole Terror....
Edward Daniel Cartier (August 1, 1914 – December 25, 2008) was known professionally as Edd Cartier. He contributed numerous interior illustrations for doc Savage magazine, but painted only one Doc Savage cover: The Pure Evil. However, that cover is actually for the other novel in the magazine,...
Though Walter Swensen (also credited as H. Swenson, Swenson, and Swensen) created 11 covers for Doc Savage Magazine and some illustrations for Astounding, little is currently written about the designer. He is not listed at David Saunders’s PulpArtists.Com.
“Modest Stein (1871–1958), born Modest Aronstam, was a Russian-born American illustrator and close associate of the anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. He was Berkman’s cousin and intended replacement in the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick, an industrialist and union buster, in 1892. Later Stein abandoned...
The first artist to paint Doc Savage’s portrait, Walter M. Baumhofer (November 1, 1904 to September 23, 1987) painted numerous covers for the pulp editions of Doc Savage Magazine. For more information visit: Pulp Artists
