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Artist Profile: Henry Fox

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Who was Henry Fox?

There isn’t much biographical information available about this artist but, because he was on the few cover artists to regularly sign his work, he is better known than some of his contemporaries.  It appears that Fox began his career in 1952 and was active throughout the 60s but that is all the information that I could find.

Luckily, Fox’s work can speak for itself:

The Salacious Covers of Inside Detective

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by Albert Fisher

For over 60 years, Inside Detective Magazine provided the readers with the salacious details of true life crime.  Every story was advertised as being true and many were said to come straight from police files.  From the 1930s until it ceased publication in the 90s, Inside Detective was one of the most popular true detective magazines.  The publishers understood that nothing sells like sex and violence and the covers of Inside Detective promised both.  Below, we have a few of them:

by Albert Fisher

by Albert Fisher

Artist Unknown

by David Berger

by Harwood Forgsen

Artist Unknown

by Norman Saunders

Artist Unknown

by Peter Driben

by Peter Driben

Unknown Artist