Kastel, Roger - Wages of Fear, The - 1968 (Avon G1332)

Kastel, Roger - Wages of Fear, The - 1968 (Avon G1332)SIZE: 16 1 16 x 24 Acrylic on 3 16" Illustration Board This is the original painting published as the cover to the 1968 edition of the vintage paperback novel The Wages Of Fear, originally written by Georges Arnaud in 1950 and adapted into a film in 1953. The artist, Roger Kastel, created a wonderful composition with this piece and was one of the top illustrators of his era, known for doing covers of well known books by famous authors such as Arnaud

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revealing to The Long Armed Bull as he's dying

This color guide comes with an overlay containing the pencilled in color codes

IMAGE: 13 x 21 1/2FRAME: 17 3/16 x 25 3/4Oil on specially prepared Canvas Paper

sounding suspiciously like someone else we first met back in the first two-part story arc of this run

hand colored Color Guide for John Byrne's Superman #6

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he is granted his truest desire--redemption

Gorgeous details in the machinery really sets the stage here

At the risk of trouble with Harold Lauder

is officially pronounced dead

End page featuring large cast in first panel as the first arrivals meet Mother Abigail for the first time