
by Lu Kimmel
He looks really wicked to me. I guess that’s why he’s the gentleman from Hell.

by Lu Kimmel
He looks really wicked to me. I guess that’s why he’s the gentleman from Hell.

by Lu Kimmel
All of the covers below (and the one above) were painted by the New Jersey-based painter Lu Kimmel. Though I couldn’t find much biographical information of Kimmel, he was apparently active from the 1930s through the 1960s. According to this entry at Fine Art America, he painted over 50 paperback covers. Here’s only a few of them: