Canadian paperbacks of the 40s and 50s
The mystery discussed in the last post on early Canadian paperback artist René has been solved (thanks Morgan). He is Rene Kulbach.
He worked on Bell Features original early 1940s comics and did the covers on two of Bell's 17 paperbacks.
Here I'll show his front cover signature which matches up with his comic one.
The seventeen paperbacks published by Toronto's Bell Features and Publishing circa 1946 have seven signed covers. Five are by Adrian Dingle and two by an artist signing as René. Both covers have a difficult to decipher signature. Fortunately he/she signed the back cover of The Canyon of Death more clearly as "RENÉ".
Assuming this is not René Magritte the artist remains unknown.
