Category Archives: cover art

Getting in my posts on The Ceaseless Way meant no cover posts for a while. Time to catch up!

First, this very trippy Gray Morrow cover from the late 1960s.

Next, one by Bruce Pennington.

A Frank Frazetta cover for one of Burroughs’ tertiary series (if we put Barsoom and Tarzan in first place, Pellucidar would be in the second slot).

A cover by Wally Wood, better known as a comics artist.

And finally one by Paul Alexander.

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First, one by Lawrence Stern Stevens

Virgil Finlay up next.

Norman Saunders provides the cover for A. Merritt’s wonderful Face in the Abyss.

The art is uncredited. Lucky for the artist, this looks like bad acting in a stage melodrama.

Mort Engel provides the cover for what’s supposed to be a serious drama … with sex!

The quote about “climax is tremendous” sent my mind to the wrong place.

So how about some scary cover images? First one by Ramon Naylor

Next, Gervasio Gallardo

This cover by Robert LoGrippo. Review here.

One by Richard Powers

Another LogGrippo; related review here.

And to finish up, one by Hunter Barker.

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Ballantine’s editions were the ones that introduced me to John Carter. Robert Abbett does the cover here.

Frank Frazetta shows he can draw a cover that doesn’t have a woman showing off her bubble butt (he did quite a few of those).

Jack Gaughan gives Michael Moorcock’s Elric a face — though in the background, doesn’t it look like V’s Guy Fawkes’ mask?

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This uncredited cover baffles me.

As it doesn’t appear to connect to bowling, I’m guessing it’s some sort of labor/industrial sabotage racket — you want to hurt your rival, the bad guy will trigger a strike. But that’s only a guess. And how does that tie in with the chorus line? I’ve looked online without any luck finding answers.

Seeing this Kelly Freas cover gave me one of those “times change” moments. I was never a Mad fan — their sense of humor doesn’t mesh with mine — but those paperback reprints from the magazine were omnipresent when I was a kid. On every newsstand, every spinner rack, or so it seemed — 93 books over four decades. I never thought about the fact they’d disappeared by the end of the last century but the sight of this image hit me with the awareness. Mutter, mutter, something about kids these days.

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First cover is uncredited.

Second is by Robert Gibson Jones

Third by Hubert Rogers.

And finally a more planet-based transport by John Schoenherr.

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First one by Robert Gibson Jones

Next, Jack Gaughan

Art is uncredited

This one is also uncredited

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A decade ago, if I didn’t have enough reading material for a post I’d have simply skipped the day. But I’ve been doing daily posts for a long time now and I don’t want to break the streak.

First, one by Charles Frank, from the days when you could buy a paperback for 35 cents.

Katherine Jeffrey Jones provides one side of an old Ace Double (60 cents, but two books in one!)

Kelly Freas provides the flip side cover.

One of Boris Dolgov’s ornate pulp covers.

And we’ll wrap up with Richard Powers.

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Rather than upload new material, let’s look at some wonderful Richard Powers art.

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