Greenleaf Classics paperbacks

1959-1975

Fraternity of Shame (1966) - Cover art by Robert Bonfils 

This archive documents the 4300 books published under various company names and imprints from 1959 to 1975. As a group they are informally known as the vintage Greenleaf Classics books.

http://greenleaf-classics-books.com/vintage/

David Fairbrother-Roe

Olias of Sunhillow

David Fairbrother-Roe

A Liverpool-born artist and graphic designer, Dave produced artwork for the original Isle of Wight Festivals, covers for Anne McCaffrey's pern books and album sleeves for Jon Anderson, Nazareth and Popol Ace.

https://dragondaze6.webnode.co.uk/

Olias of Sunhillow

https://www.sonicperspectives.com/features/jon-anderson-olias-of-sunhillow/

https://olias.wordpress.com/

Rudy Obrero

Rudy Obrero was one of the first illustrators to work on the Masters of the Universe toyline. He created the iconic packaging artwork for many beloved MOTU toys, including Castle Grayskull, Battle Cat, Wind Raider, Battle Ram, and others. He has been a professional illustrator for 39 years.

https://battleramblog.com/rudy-obrero-heroic-master-of-illustration/

https://battleramblog.com/

Miles Johnston

UK artist Miles Johnston

https://www.milesjohnstonart.com/

Hank Janson & Reginald Heade

Hank Janson was the most popular and successful of British pulp fiction authors of the 1940s and 1950s. His books were violent "pseudo-American" thrillers sold in paperback editions featuring erotic cover art, and it is estimated that some five million copies were sold by 1954.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Janson

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/hank-janson/

Reginald Heade was a British illustrator of sensational paperback novels, but also had a brief career in comics, working for the magazines Knock-Out and Comet, both from the Amalgamated Press. He also published under the name Cy Webb. Most of his output were realistically-drawn historical adventure comics or biographical comics.

http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/reginald-heade.htm

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/heade_reginald.htm

Raine Szramski

Beautiful Blake's 7 and Doctor Who art by Raine Szramski 

https://raineszramski.tumblr.com/

https://www.instagram.com/akisameraine/?hl=en

German pulp magazines

 

Gespenster-Krimi

https://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/gespenster-krimi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinclair_(German_fiction)

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/John_Sinclair_(German_fiction)#

https://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/professor-zamorra

https://www.coverbrowser.com/search?q=D%C3%A4monen&searchmode=

Dark Shadows

 

In Germany, DARK SHADOWS found a second life in pulp magazines. The Paperback Library published 32 DARK SHADOWS novels written by Marilyn Ross, some of which were later recycled as content for German horror- and gothic-themed pulp digests.

http://www.collinsporthistoricalsociety.com/2012/02/ridiculous-amazing-german-dark-shadows.html

Frankie B Washington

Frankie B Washington - Comic Book artist

https://www.freelanced.com/frankiebwashington

https://twitter.com/frankiebwash

https://www.instagram.com/frankiebwash/?hl=en

https://www.deviantart.com/fbwash

Jan Parker

In 1971, artist Jan Parker, who’d been a sketch artist on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey, executed a series of macabre illustrations for Witchcraft and Black Magic by the prolific occult author Peter Haining. Though he wrote some reference works on Doctor Who, Haining may have become most well known for arguing, in two books, a claim that Sweeney Todd was a real person. That assertion has never been widely embraced, and Haining passed in 2007. 

Jan Parker, on the other hand, is alive and well, and remains active as an artist. But if all you know of him is work like we’ve reproduced here, you wouldn’t recognize his current output. No longer a dark and surreal arbiter of fantasy and the arcane, he’s now a painter of almost flourescently vivid impressionistic abstractions. Though some of his newer pieces are indeed quite striking, the lurid horrors below are more our speed. Via Monster Brains

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/witchcraft_and_black_magic_surreal_occult_fantasy_paintings

https://kubrickonia.blogspot.com/2007/06/lost-illustrations-of-2001-part-2.html

Daryl Joyce

 

UK Illustrator Daryl Joyce

http://www.daryljoyce.co.uk/home/

https://twitter.com/Harnois751

https://www.daryljoyce-illustrator.com/

Paul Mann

https://www.paulmannartist.com/

https://firewireblog.com/2021/05/25/the-art-of-paul-mann/

Michael Buhler

Michael Buhler (1940-2009) studied under his father Robert Buhler at the Royal College of Art, before becoming an art teacher himself, first at the Colchester School of Art, later at the City and Guilds School in Kennington. Influenced both by his father’s more traditional, delicate style and by the simple colours, shapes and abstraction of Pop Art, he painted many subjects, but his interest and belief in the existence of UFOs was particularly suited to his technique. A number of paintings seek to recreate the testimonies of those around the world who had claimed to have been abducted, while others depict UFO sightings.

https://bapla.org.uk/mary-evans-collection-of-the-week-michael-buhler/

https://www.maryevans.com/search.php

https://www.allposters.com/-st/Michael-Buhler-Posters_c130876_.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/dec/09/michael-buhler-obituary

Vintage illustration on Flickr

Dale Kelley Flickr gallery

https://www.flickr.com/photos/47888952@N02/

Tom Simpson

https://www.flickr.com/photos/randar/

Donald Deveau

https://www.flickr.com/photos/124856366@N04/

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Sergei Zolotov

Sergei Zolotov - Soul-ParalyzedArt

https://beacons.ai/soul.paralyzed_art/

https://www.deviantart.com/colourblindpencil

Peter Santa-Maria - Attack Peter

https://linktr.ee/Attackpeter

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw18XqR962AlwsNeLLcPu4w

https://www.instagram.com/attackpeter/

Graham Humphreys

 

British horror illustrator Graham Humphreys

https://grahamhumphreys.com/

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Jeff Cummins

 

https://jeffcummins.wixsite.com/jeff

https://www.thenational.wales/news/19827888.jeff-cummins-book-invisible-artist-features-doctor/

http://www.candy-jar.co.uk/books/theinvisibleartist.html

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Emanuele Taglietti

Emanuele Taglietti was born in Ferrara, Italy, in 1943. He graduated from the local art institute and then moved to Rome, where he studied stage design. As a set designer in the Italian cinema, he worked on numerous films, including Federico Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits (1965) and Marco Ferreri’s L’Harem (1967). In 1973, Emanuele Taglietti returned to live in his hometown. Inspired by the art of Frank Frazetta and Averardo Ciriello, he became a comic book cover artist for the Italian publisher Edifumetto, working on such titles as titles Playcolt, La Poliziotta and Vampirissimo. His realistic style and ability to cross genres has defined his work. From macho investigator to sexy starlet, and from monster stories to fairy tales, he was master of them all.  Although Emanuele retired in 2000, one can still find him in his studio with a paint brush in hand.

https://emanueletagliettifanclub.blogspot.com/

https://www.koreropress.com/news/emanuele-taglietti-interview/

Mitchell Hooks

Illustrator Mitchell Hooks (1923 - 2013)

https://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2013/03/good-bye-mitchell-hooks-1923-2013.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/leifpeng/sets/72157607176368976/