Saturday 19 June 2010

Killer To Come
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
(Digit, 1962)


“Killer To Come” sounds like a fairly standard, earth-bound mystery, but I love the way the spinning stars and planets emerging from a central vortex on the cover make it look more like some metaphysical sci-fi saga, while the ghostly guy in the hat resembles one of those Dr. Occult / Mister E type inter-dimensional wanderer characters from the DC comics... and then that big, awkward gun hand seals the deal by looking just plain weird.

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