McCarthy was mostly known for Westerns, but he also did the covers for Bantam's James Bond paperbacks (including Colonel Sun). With Robert McGinnis, he also did poster art for the Bond movies Thunderball and You Only Live Twice.
McCarthy's movie posters include war movies (The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare), Westerns (Once Upon a Time in the West, Lawman, Duel At Diablo, The Sons of Katie Elder), and a couple of sorta-kinda Westerns (Circus World, Africa-Texas Style, and Valley of Gwangi).
The Marshall Tucker Band used a McCarthy painting for the cover of their album, Long Hard Ride.
007 Magazine (007magazine.co.UK) said that these were actually by James Bama, who did a lot of Bantam paperback covers, including the Doc Savage series and several Louis L'amour westerns.
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I saw these on the covers of Bantam paperbacks in the very early 1970's.
Bantam also published Colonel Sun, by Kingsley Amis. Don't know offhand if the cover was by the same artist, but it looked like the same style.
You're right, TC. It does look very similar.
According to the site The Book Bond, the Colonel Sun cover was by McCarthy.
Bantam also published movie tie-in editions of Diamonds Are Forever and Live and Let Die, with movie poster art for the covers.
I don't believe I've seen these before. Cool.
McCarthy was mostly known for Westerns, but he also did the covers for Bantam's James Bond paperbacks (including Colonel Sun). With Robert McGinnis, he also did poster art for the Bond movies Thunderball and You Only Live Twice.
McCarthy's movie posters include war movies (The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare), Westerns (Once Upon a Time in the West, Lawman, Duel At Diablo, The Sons of Katie Elder), and a couple of sorta-kinda Westerns (Circus World, Africa-Texas Style, and Valley of Gwangi).
The Marshall Tucker Band used a McCarthy painting for the cover of their album, Long Hard Ride.
That last painting looks like Stanley Baker, dunnit?
It do indeed, Shay. Think he worked from photos?
And great info, Anonymous. I'll take a look at those posters.
007 Magazine (007magazine.co.UK) said that these were actually by James Bama, who did a lot of Bantam paperback covers, including the Doc Savage series and several Louis L'amour westerns.
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