Set out below, I have included some of my favourite ones from my collection. The Australian covers lack the style and quality of the McGinnis covers, but they have a certain charm about them. And in a strange twist, they would also occasionally use monochrome versions of the McGinnis drawings on the back covers of the books (see The Sometime Wife below). In Australia, the original publishers of Carter Brown, Horwitz, sometimes used the American McGinnis covers, but more often they would they commission local unacknowledged artists to paint different covers in the McGinnis style. The covers, nearly always featuring an attractive, scantily dressed woman staring directly at the potential reader, became closely associated with the Carter Brown novels and were probably directly responsible for their huge sales. Robert McGinnis’ famous Good Girl Art covers are synonymous with the American Signet editions of the Carter Brown novels in the 1960s, and are also often to be found on editions outside America. AUSTRALIAN CARTER BROWN COVERS The Girl From Outer Space by Carter Brown (Horwitz, 1966)
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