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Artists
Harry Kane
Harry Kane was the original illustrator for the series, drawning internal illustrations for #1 The Secret
of Terror Castle through #16 The Mystery of the Nervous Lion
and also cover art for #3 The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy through
again, Nervous Lion. Kane also drew the famous blue
graveyard/spiderweb endpaper illustrations.
Ed Vebell
Ed Vebell first began his work on
The Three Investigators with the covers for #1 The Secret of Terror
Castle and #2 The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot. His
art is un-credited on both, but his signature can be seen on the bottom
right of Terror Castle and both covers share the same style as his
credited work. For the next fourteen titles in the series, Vebell
was not involved, but returned for a short time in 1972 and 1973 with #17 The
Mystery of the Singing Serpent through #19 The Secret of Phantom
Lake. In addition, Vebell provided the cover art for the First
Paperback Editions (Windward Books) of
Terror Castle and Stuttering
Parrot in 1972 and 1973, respectively.
Jack Hearne
Jack Hearne began drawing for the
series with internal illustrations for #18 The Mystery of the Shrinking
House and #19 The Secret of Phantom Lake and continued with
covers and internal illustrations through the #27 The Mystery of the
Magic Circle.
Herb Mott
Herb Mott worked on only one Three
Investigators book, drawing the cover and internal illustrations for #28
The Mystery of the Deadly Double. This was also the last book
in the series with internal illustrations and the last to be offered in
a Trade Hardcover Edition.
Stephen Marchesi
In 1978, Random House published First
or Second Paperback Editions for twelve of the earlier mysteries.
The original internal illustrations were retained, but new cover art was
drawn by Stephen Marchesi. Marchesi's covers were fairly abstract
illustrations and very unique. They can be found on the following
titles:
#1 The Secret of Terror Castle
#2 The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
#3 The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy
#6 The Secret of Skeleton Island
#7 The Mystery of the Fiery Eye
#8 The Mystery of the Silver Spider
#9 The Mystery of the Screaming Clock
#10 The Mystery of the Moaning Cave
#11 The Mystery of the Talking Skull
#12 The Mystery of the Laughing Shadow
#15 The Mystery of the Flaming Footprints
#18 The Mystery of the Shrinking House
Robert Adragna
Beginning with #29 The Mystery
of the Sinister Scarecrow 1979, Robert Adragna became the exclusive
cover artist for the original series until its end in 1987. As noted
above, internal illustrations were no longer provided and a hardcover edition
was no longer sold in the retail market. Also in 1979 - 1981, Random House
continued to release the remaining Three Investigators titles in paperback, and
Robert Adragna drew the art for these new covers. Later printings
of 10 of the 12 Marchesi paperbacks also received Adragna covers in 1981 - 1983,
giving the series a uniform look for the 1980's.
Anthony Rao
Anthony Rao provided the cover art
and internal illustrations for The Three Investigators Book of Mystery
Puzzles.
John Hulsey, Vincente, Aristides
Ruiz & Tom Leonard
These artists provided the cover
art and internal illustrations for the four Find Your Fate Mystery books:
#1
The Case of the Weeping Coffin, #2 The Case of the Dancing Dinosaur,
#7
The Case of the House of Horrors and #8 The Case of the Savage Statue,
respectively. As a note, each Find Your Fate book is profusely
illustrated, which must have meant considerable work for the artist.
Hector Garrido
Hector Garrido was the cover artist
for all nine Crimebusters titles.
Roger Loveless & Dominick
Finelle
These two artists provided the cover
art for the short-lived Knopf Bullseye Paperback Edition. Only twelve
of the original 43 titles were published in this edition. They are:
#1 The Secret of Terror Castle - Roger Loveless
#2 The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot - Roger Loveless
#9 The Mystery of the Screaming Clock - Roger Loveless
#10 The Mystery of the Moaning Cave - Dominick Finelle
#11 The Mystery of the Talking Skull - Roger Loveless
#21 The Secret of the Haunted Mirror - Dominick Finelle
#26 The Mystery of the Headless Horse - Dominick Finelle
#32 The Mystery of the Blazing Cliffs - Roger Loveless
#33 The Mystery of the Purple Pirate - Dominick Finelle
#35 The Mystery of the Kidnapped Whale - Roger Loveless
#36 The Mystery of the Missing Mermaid - Roger Loveless
#39 The Mystery of the Trail of Terror - Dominick Finelle
Bill Dodge
Bill Dodge is the most recent artist
for the series, creating the cover art for the Current 1998 - 2000 Random
House Issue (numbers 1 - 11).
Notes
Examples of all the covers discussed
can be found by clicking on the individual books' links in the left frame.
Of the first 28 hardcover titles,
only five of the covers are artist signed. These are books #1 and numbers
17 - 20. Robert Adragna signed all of his covers.
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