Hector Garrido (1928 – April 19, 2020)Hector Garrido > About
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illustrator. He illustrated numerous science fiction, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the

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series of pulp novels, and covers for the

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series. He also illustrated romance and gothic novels, and

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and

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novels. He also did the painted artwork on G.I.Joe toy packaging of the 1980s. Some of his work is considered

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. Garrido was born in Argentina and studied art in

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. He emigrated to the United States, and began professional work there in the 1950s. After the 1990s he painted "devotional subjects". Libraries appear to report that Garrido provided interior as well as cover illustrations for some of the "Susan Sand" mystery stories by Marilyn Ezzell.

Selected works

Wikipedia book articles usually display front cover image of the first editions. Garrido may have provided cover art for a later edition. * ''The Anything Box'',

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(1965) * ''Pilgrimage: The Book of the People'', Zenna Henderson, Avon (1967) *'' Needle'',

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, Avon (1967) * ''The Day New York Trembled'', Irwin Lewis, Avon (1967) *'' No Blade of Grass'',

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, Avon (1967) *''

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'',

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, Avon (1967) *'' Master of Life and Death'',

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, Avon (1968) * ''The People: No Different Flesh'', Zenna Henderson, Avon (1968) * ''Now Then!'', John Brunner, Avon (1968) * ''The Little People'', John Christopher, Avon (1968) * ''The Pedestal'', George Lanning, Avon (1968) * ''Witch Bane'', Robert Neill, Avon (1968) * ''The Devil His Due'', edited by Douglas Hill, Avon (1969) * ''Old House of Fear'',

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, Avon (1969) * ''Night of the Vampire'', Raymond Giles, Avon (1969) *'' A Stir of Echoes'',

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, Avon (1969) * ''Infernal Idol'', Henry Seymour, Avon (1969) *'' Unfinished Portrait'',

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, Dell (April, 1969) *

novels, Paul Kenyon,

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(1974–1975) **''The Ecstasy Connection'' **''Diamonds Are for Dying'' **''Death Is a Ruby Light'' **''Hard-core Murder'' **''Operation Doomsday'' **''Sonic Slave'' **''Flicker of Doom'' **''Black Gold'' *''Lodge Sinister'', Dana Ross, Pocket Books (1975) *''Night Shade'', Dorothy Daniels, Pocket Books (1976) * ''The Parasite'',

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, Macmillan (1980) *'' Race Against Time'',

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(1982)Not the 1st ed. cover displayed at Wikipedia. Garrido illustrated the cover of a later Wanderer Books (1980s) edition of Nancy Drew #66, one with full size art and "checkerboard" cover design
"Nancy Drew #66: Race Against Time"
Lea Shangraw Fox. NancyDrewWorld.com. Retrieved 2023-02-20. * ''Forgetting Places'', S. P. Somtow,

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(1987) * ''Blood Farm'', Sam Siciliano, Pageant Books (1988) * ''Death Angel'', Robert Black, Pageant (1988) * ''The Curse'', Carl Sherrell, Pageant (1989) *'' Summer of Night'',

Dan Simmons Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes ...

, Putnam (1991) * ''Children of the Night'', Dan Simmons, Putnam (1992) *''Raven'', Charles L. Grant, Tor (1993) *'' Fires of Eden'', Dan Simmons, Putnam (1994)

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* * – WARNING: WorldCat records for unidentified "Garrido, Hector" apparently report book illustrations by this HG and musical compositions or arrangements by another HG; perhaps work by others, too. {{DEFAULTSORT:Garrido, Hector 1928 births 2020 deaths American science fiction artists American horror artists 20th-century American illustrators Argentine emigrants to the United States Pulp fiction artists