There was no master plan, according to James Bama, ... I started working for Bantam Books in the early '60s. I did everything for Bantam, from sci-fi to sexy girls to Westerns.

James Bama: Bama has one of those names that would’ve been suitable for some kind of tough private eye. Fortunately for all of us he became a painter instead, one mostly associated with covers to the ...

26 x 20 in. (66 x 50.8 cm.) This illustration was published as the paperback cover of The Devil of Bucks County by Edmund Schiddel (Bantam Books, 1967 ...