Reed Crandall (1917-1982) was born in Winslow, Indiana, but grew up in Newton, Kansas. He did the Native American Art Triptych in 1933 while he was in Newton High School. The wooden sculpture Scrooge was created in 1936, the year after he graduated from high school. Newton's John Gaeddert did some recent restoration work on Scrooge.

Below are two illustrations from Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars, published in 1964 by Biblo & Tannen's Canaveral Press; both were reprinted in Castle of Frankenstein #5 (1964) to illustrate a Dick Lupoff article about Burroughs. The sword battle shows the attack of the Morgors, the skeleton men of Jupiter. Crandall also illustrated Tarzan and the Madman for Canaveral. "The Sucker" was published in Terror Illustrated #1 (December 1955), and "The Lipstick Killer" was in Shock Illustrated #2 (February 1956), titles in EC's short-lived Picto-Fiction line. For the true facts about the myth of the Lipstick Killer, click on the "lipstick killer" label at bottom.

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