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Fantastic Stories of Imagination

This original gouache pulp magazine cover painting by Lloyd Birmingham used for the December 1961 issue of Fantastic Stories of Imagination illustrates the Daniel Galouye short novel “Spawn of Doom”. The image features an alien astronaut breaking into a museum window to stop a sentient spore-based life form from taking over planet earth and destroying the human race. Painting is handsomely framed and matted behind glass and comes with the magazine which this appeared as cover art for.

Spawn of Doom

Artist: Lloyd Birmingham

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, alien, american, astronaut, cold war, Fantastic Stories of Imagination, illustration, Lloyd Birmingham, magazine cover, original cover art, pulp, science fiction
Added to Gallery: November 5, 2012

The original gouache cover painting by Lloyd Birmingham used for the December 1964 “Stories of Imagination – Fantastic” pulp magazine published by Ziff-Davis, illustrating the Philip K. Dick short novel “The Unteleported Man”. A fresh to the market cover published pulp painting that had remained for decades in the artists upstate New York estate. Work is handsomely framed in a retro looking limed oak fine gallery frame behind glass, comes with the complete published December 1964 edition of Fantastic Stories of Imagination.

The Unteleported Man

Artist: Lloyd Birmingham

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, american, Fantastic Stories of Imagination, illustration, Lloyd Birmingham, magazine cover, original cover art, Phillip K. Dick, pulp, science fiction
Added to Gallery: August 1, 2012

 

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