Here's Keith Chatto's cover to Page Publications' Tales of Terror Picture Library #7:
This is based on a previous cover to Promise of Death. Here's a scan of the cover to Secret Service Club Library #41:
This issue was distributed in Australia with a $0.40 cover price. The GCD entry suggests this was a 1976 series. Both of these details place the publication date of Secret Service Club Library #41 well after Tales of Terror Picture Library #7. It does appear an earlier edition of this issue was published, possibly by Med Publishing, or another UK publisher.
It also appears this was the first Yaffa edition. I expect more will turn up.
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Sometimes I’m amazed at Chatto’s sloppiness - maybe it’s just because he was so darn busy all the time?
That Tales of Terror #7 composition is… odd. That poor onlooker appears to have his neck in the fist of the man punching. And… those too close and stubby streetlamps?
I reckon the original source of the Secret Service #41 would have been a photographic swipe especially because of the foreshortened left arm of the biffed bloke.
In Chatto’s version he (biffed bloke) looks like he has a deformed/shortened arm which Chatto could have ‘fixed’ with some shadowing to show depth.
So, all in all, it appears a rush-job by our old mate.
I reckon you're on the money, Mark. That left arm stood out to me too. And good thinking on a possible photographic source. Let's see if an earlier source or version of the Secret Service cover turns up.
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