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That's a great book, James. Nice grab! I love Maguire's work. It's almost all paperback covers that he did (very little, else- off the top of my head, I can only think of a few digests and that's it). But he did a lot of work in his career. I think SA had a number, somewhere in the 800 range of different paperback covers. At one point, I was seriously thinking I might acquire all of them but after all these years, I keep finding new titles I didn't know about. 800 is a shockingly large number of books. I think I only have a couple hundred, at best. Maybe not even that. Stag Stripper is a great title. It has a lot going for it- Maguire cover, earlyish Midwood title, and as SA said, a great full female figure rendering. This is a great site for exploring cover art for this kind of thing. Be warned, though. A person can lose a lot of time looking through this site. Maguire is only the beginning... https://pulpcovers.com/?s=Maguire Edit: I just went through a few of the first pages and they have some new things since I last went through their Maguire posts. Including a few magazine covers and pulps. My error.
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This week in your Magazine collection.
Randall Dowling replied to batmiesta's topic in Comic Magazines
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This is a great point about speed and quality. I remember speaking with a buddy back in the 90s that was a commercial illustrator and was shocked to hear that not every piece was done by only one artist. Sometimes an illustrator would execute a painting and then someone would say "I don't like her hair" or "He should be smiling", and then whoever was available to make the change would end up doing it if the original artist was busy with something else. As he described it to me, there wasn't a lot of ownership over the work. It was just "the work". It wasn't fine art, it wasn't expected to have value independent of the usage as a cover, it was just "the work". So, very possible for all the reasons you list that this could be a rushed piece or overpainted by someone else. Without direct first hand knowledge from inside the publisher at the time, I guess all we have is supposition. In my own profession, working on design drawings and construction documents, it's really the same. Especially with CAD work and BIM modeling, but before that, when we were drawing on mylar, there might have been 4 different people that modified a drawing. It's all just work, no ownership (unless something is wrong ).
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Correct. Darcy = Chiriacka (Darcy was his middle name). I'm a big fan of his work and even had a client that was a family member of his. They have a ton of his originals in storage but she's (the client) a bit odd and protective of it (yes, I tried to buy some and she didn't seem to like that). But I don't think Sin Street is his work. The lines look wrong for Chiriacka to me but I could be wrong (wouldn't be the first time). There were definitely a lot of illustrators that did one or two covers and that was it. So, they're relatively obscure and unknown. I have a few pieces that fall into that category. Here's a few quick examples of more of his work:
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Phantom Books 506, Carl G. Hoges, Crime On My Hands, VG/F 5.0. Another tough Phantom, this copy is solid with a small amount of creases but still colorful and clean. One of my favorite George Gross covers of any publication, it's so scandalous because her skirt is unbuttoned! Tough book in any condition. $50 Sold to mstrange