Peffer's cover for the Pan paperback edition of From Russia with Love, 1959The cover of Scorpion Reef (1958) by Charles Williams featured Peffer in boxing stance and his stuntman brother-in-law, Jack Cooper, being knocked out of the boat.Peffer's poster for Hussy (1980), starring Helen Mirren and John Shea
Samuel John Peffer (known as Peff; 3 November 1921 – 14 March 2014) was a British commercial artist who designed film posters, paperback book covers and the covers of home videos. His best known work was for the covers of the paperback James Bond novels published by Pan Books in the 1950s and 1960s, for which he created a consistent and distinctive style.[1]
^"Sam Peffer" in The Times, 22 March 2014, pp. 60–61.
