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Joyland (McGinnis Cover)
Beyond The Lights, There Is Only Darkness
This is the extremely limited hardback edition. The paperback cover by Glen Orbik is here.
via Hard Case Crime and via
Darling, It’s Death (McGinnis)
Baryé Phillips also did three different covers for this book
Dance With The Dead (McGinnis)
The Wailing Frail (McGinnis)
Inside Tips On Macao’s Girls And Pleasure Palaces
Johnny Gossamer (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Promos)
The film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang features a series of pulp mystery novels (and a movie based on them) as a significant piece of the plot. Legendary pulp cover artist Robert McGinnis was brought in to paint covers for some of these fake books.
Love From France
Droll drawings illustrating the battle of the sexes — hilarious proof that in France lovemanship is still a national art
This McGinnis girl was previously used on the cover of Love Affair
Angel!
The Bombshell
It’s Al Wheeler’s job to find a beautiful blonde’s killer when he’s not even sure she’s a corpse.
The 1972 edition bears a striking resemblance to the cover of The Consummata, also painted by Robert McGinnis.
via McLaverty, UK Vintage, and swallace99
Seidlitz And The Super-Spy
Catch a falling corpse, throw a curve at a playboy prince — and flirt with espionage… Mavis style
McGinnis didn’t mess around on Carter Brown covers. They asked for hot dames, they GOT hot dames.
Top Of The Heap (1963)
From the back:
3 On A Match
The Blonde—might talk—if anyone knew where to find her.
The Brunette—was willing—
but talk wasn’t her line.
The Redhead—talked plenty—and she changed her story to suit the occasion.
They all had the key that could unlock the puzzle of murder and big money—and Donald Lam made his business the pleasure of their company.
This is at least the second cover McGinnis did for this book. It was recently republished by Hard Case Crime.
Marked for Murder
All three covers are by Robert McGinnis
Heads You Lose
The second McGinnis cover was reused for Syndicate Girl
So Young, So Cold, So Fair (Original Title: The Beauty Queen Killer)
The very first book published with a Robert McGinnis cover.