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In defense of Rafael DeSoto

Today's artist is Rafael DeSoto . Many of you have seen some of the pulp covers he created; most likely those for The Spider , Terror Tales , Dime Mystery or Dime Detective . I was recently reading a blog post about David Saunder's book on DeSoto (I can't find the link to the blog anymore), and one of the comments was about how the commenter didn't believe that DeSoto deserved a book, having painted only garish, violent covers. My reaction was immediate; I felt like telling the commenter to go forth and multiply, in slightly different words of course.