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Crime Bible cover inspiration
According to writer Greg Rucka, the covers to three issues of the Crime Bible series were crafted by artist John Van Fleet in homage to specific pulp novel covers, as provided by Rucka and editor Michael Siglain. Below are the original covers alongside their modern counterparts:
From Jesse Dumont’s “I Prefer Girls,” art by R.A. Maguire — 1963
From “Private Detective Stories v.11 #6″ — November 1942 — Artist Unknown
From “The Shadow v.49 #5 / #293, The Mask of Mephisto” — July 1, 1945 — Artist Unknown
June 24th, 2008 at 12:21 am
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