Author Archives: Dazzling Erin

The Covers of Prison Life Stories

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Prison Life Stories was a magazine that ran for three issues in 1935.  Edited by the warden of a federal prison, Prison Life Stories featured articles written by actual law enforcement personnel and actual convicts.  J. Edgar Hoover contributed an article to the first issue.  The third issue was written by prisoners.

Here are the three covers of Prison Life Stories:

by Monroe Eisenberg

by Hugh Joseph Ward

by Norman Saunders

Artwork of the Day: Soldier for Fortune (by Tom Dunn)

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by Tom Dunn

Soldier of Fortune was first published in 1953 but there are many different editions of this book and it is difficult to pinpoint an exact year for this cover.  Because The High and Mighty was a best seller and was turned into a movie in 1954, I’m going to guess that this cover from either 1954 or a year or two after.