Killer Covers
February 3, 2025 6:03 AM Subscribe
Killer Covers has your Mickey Spillane, your Carter Brown, your Ross Macdonald, and more Robert McGinnis than you can shake several sticks at. (CW: guns, dames, etc.)
Love Robert McGinnis!
posted by bwvol at 6:19 AM on February 3 [1 favorite]
posted by bwvol at 6:19 AM on February 3 [1 favorite]
These are fun!
If you want more, here's Rex Parker's blog, Pop Sensations
posted by chavenet at 9:17 AM on February 3 [1 favorite]
If you want more, here's Rex Parker's blog, Pop Sensations
posted by chavenet at 9:17 AM on February 3 [1 favorite]
A friend discovered only a few years ago that his mother had lived down the street from Robert McGinnis when she was a young woman in the late 50s and modeled for a number of his covers. If you see a McGinnes pulp fiction cover from around that time featuring a woman who looks like she could be Sophia Loren's cousin, there's a good chance it's her.
posted by slkinsey at 9:21 AM on February 3 [4 favorites]
posted by slkinsey at 9:21 AM on February 3 [4 favorites]
Well, that was a nice interlude in a dreary morning of documenting the downfall of the US gov't. Thanks, this is a great post and a great blog to follow.
posted by drossdragon at 9:22 AM on February 3 [2 favorites]
posted by drossdragon at 9:22 AM on February 3 [2 favorites]
A friend discovered only a few years ago that his mother had lived down the street from Robert McGinnis when she was a young woman in the late 50s and modeled for a number of his covers.
I don’t think I would ever recover from a mind-blowing like that. I’d be like Nietzsche in the asylum.
posted by Lemkin at 9:53 AM on February 3 [1 favorite]
I don’t think I would ever recover from a mind-blowing like that. I’d be like Nietzsche in the asylum.
posted by Lemkin at 9:53 AM on February 3 [1 favorite]
I framed a bunch of original covers in this genre, several of which are featured on this blog. Wow there are some great ones I've not seen before. "Don't Murder Before Christmas" is gold.
I have one they don't, which still makes me giggle: "Why Slug a Postman?"
posted by mcstayinskool at 11:36 AM on February 3 [3 favorites]
I have one they don't, which still makes me giggle: "Why Slug a Postman?"
posted by mcstayinskool at 11:36 AM on February 3 [3 favorites]
The back cover of Do Not Murder Before Christmas is worth a look too.
posted by Paul Slade at 1:20 AM on February 4
posted by Paul Slade at 1:20 AM on February 4
For a frustrated young reader these covers offered so much which the novels never produced.
posted by charlesminus at 1:01 PM on February 4
posted by charlesminus at 1:01 PM on February 4
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