Magazine Covers: The Illustrated New York Chinese Restaurant

The New Yorker, August 27, 1927

Art by Ilonka Karasz

Original art

The New Yorker, January 13, 1945

Art by Saul Steinberg

The foreground table has three, possibly four, 

military men with China-Burma-India patches.

The Saturday Evening Post, January 12, 1952

Art by Constantin Alajalov

Detective Comics #383, January 1969

Art by Irv Novick

Gotham City was a comic book version of Manhattan.

Angel and the Ape #4, June 1969

Art by Bob Oksner

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