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FINALLY!!! Great to see this phenomenal rarity up.
Archer St. John's first experiment with the heretofore untested form of the "Picture Novel" (the 2nd, his "The Case of the Winking Buddha," illustrated by Charles Raab, best known for picking up the obscure ADVENTURES OF PATSY newspaper strip, sold even worse than THIS volume did and essentially killed St. John's experiment with the format) features the stellar pencil artwork of the unsurpassed Matt Baker, doing some of his finest , most expressive work here. Very capably inked by Ray Osrin (Penciller and inker at Charlton, Dell, and Archie among others), and a noirish pulp-fiction-style narrative, worthy of a Jim Thompson, by Arnold Drake (who later went on to work for both DC and Marvel creating DEADMAN among others) and Les Waller (who went on to work in PR as well as becoming a successful a novelist whose work includes novelizations of DOG DAY AFTERNOON, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT and FALCON CREST{!}) writing together under the name "Drake Waller." |
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Amazing sharp high-resolution scans make this lost classic more readable than ever before. Thanks for the upload! |
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Excellent story, and the art of Arnold Drake is stunning! |
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the Art is by Matt Baker, drake was one of the writers.... |
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I thoroughly enjoyed this, thanks for scanning and sharing. |
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Thanks very much for posting this. I learned about this book in "The Ten-Cent Plague" by David Hajdu. This must have been very taboo for 1950 publishing standards! I liked that Rust Masson is essentially a dominatrix, this seemed obvious to me throughout. It just skirts some erotic stuff but never fully goes there of course. Too bad! This is an excellent read nonetheless! |
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Wow! Have been wanting to see this forever, thank you! |
