Why, you ask, is this cover being featured? Well, other than the fact that I am a figurative artist so the title appeals to me, but the illustrator of this cover is none other than the man who (by no effort of his own) painted the first cover to The Shadow. Yep, Modest Stein did the Thrill Book art that was repurposed for the April 1931 issue of The Shadow Magazine featuring the first tale of The Dark Eagle, "The Living Shadow".
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His impressionistic-styled covers for The Shadow began appearing in
1943. It was during his run that the magazine became digest size. Stein
was able to provide a very surrealistic, and modern, look for the new
smaller-sized magazine, which was indicative to the ones appearing on
paperback books at the time. Most of his covers didn't even depict The
Shadow on them."
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