George Salter, continued
							George Bagby, Dead Drunk, Mercury One of Salter's more "elaborate" illustrations, done in watercolors Salter was responsible for the entire cover, the lettering, the boxes, the lay-out, the colors.
	In addition, he was responsible for each of Mercury's expanding series, Bestseller Mysteries, Mercury Mysteries, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and more. He did do a few early Pocket Book covers, plus later illustrations for Berkley. He continued teaching as he had in Germany, and became the primary influence at the Cooper Union in New York. The list of artists who studied under him is a Who's Who of Dust Jacket Illustators: Cirlin, Wong, Woods, Glaser, Brooks, and many others. His style was not "artistic" in the sense of Avati or pulp-ish in the sense of Belarsky, and a case can be made that he is better known as a calligrapher than an illustrator, but his responsibilities were so broad he seldom had time to "polish" a work. Salter died in 1967...while working on a paperback illustration.
								Constance and Gwenyth Little, The Black Honeymoon, American Mercury Salter's fame may rest primarily with his lettering, and he had the ability to make a pictureless cover "work".
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