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Death Makes A Mistake

Artist:Harold McCauley
Date:1943
Medium:Mixed media on illustration board
Dimensions:Sight Size 12" x 17" Framed 21" x 25 1/2"
Condition:Very good with some light soiling throughout
Original Use:Interior illustration for Amazing Stories January 1943
Full view
The artist’s signature lower right
The illustration as published in the January 1943 issue of Amazing Stories, pages 70-71 (included in sale)
Framed and matted under glass view

Death Makes a Mistake is an eerie, dark, and foreboding interior pulp illustration by Harold McCauley which appeared in the January 1943 issue of the sci-fi/fantasy pulp magazine Amazing Stories accompanying the P.F. Costello story of the same title. The caption beneath reads “Reggie looked at the second rose, and then he knew…!” Nicely matted and framed under glass, this is a very strong example of McCauley’s interior pulp work, recalling Virgil Finlay in many ways.

Frame corner profile detail

Death Makes A Mistake

Artist: Harold McCauley

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, lurid, original illustration art, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

 

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