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Madonna in 1998 by John Berkey This original casein on board published illustration painting shows the singer Madonna as a celestial being standing in the middle of a classic John Berkey starscape. With her arms outstretched, she appears to bring light to a universe filled with space junk. The illustration was created to accompany an […]

Madonna, 1998

Artist: John Berkey
Price:  $2,625.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1990s, illustration, John Berkey, madonna, sci-fi, spin magazine
Added to Gallery: June 16, 2020

This complex, detailed, and eerie surreal painting by Dean Ellis was created as cover art for Red Tide by D.D. Chapman & Delores Lehman Tarzan (Ace Science Fiction Special #2). The painting shows a mutated reptilian scientist who is one of the last humans surviving in a dystopian underwater near-future. Post-apocalyptic scenarios where humans struggled to adapt to […]

Red Tide

Artist: Dean Ellis
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Ace Books, Dean Ellis, original cover art, paperback, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, scuba
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2018

This illustration artwork by Raymond Bayless shows an underwater space station with glowing jellyfish and Atlantis-like lost underground city.

The Watchers

Artist: Raymond Bayless
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Ray Bradbury, Raymond Bayless, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration
Added to Gallery: November 8, 2018

    Large and stark, this gouache on board artwork by an obscure pulp & science fiction illustrator using the name Ross appeared as the cover the the May 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction illustrating a story titled “The Man Who Could Not Stop.” The story tells the tale of a […]

The Man Who Could Not Stop

Artist: Ross
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Fantasy And Science Fiction, menace, pulp, russian, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration
Added to Gallery: July 6, 2018

      A lurid and outright creepy cover painting by Nicholas Solovioff for the August, 1955 edition of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, loosely illustrated the interior story Bride In Danger. A beautiful corpse, a once blushing bride on her honeymoon, is now found alone on a desolate beach, bloodied and left in the open […]

The Body

Artist: Nicholas Solovioff
Price: $3,500.00  $2,450.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, lurid, Nicholas Solovioff, pulp, sci-fi, Scince Fiction
Added to Gallery: July 3, 2018

This fabulous other-wordly cover painting by the important American genre artist Paul Lehr was created for the July,1972 issue of Occult Magazine.

Occult

Artist: Paul Lehr
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: black magic, magazine cover, original cover art, Paul Lehr, Popular Library, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

This dramatic, futuristic sci-fi interior pulp illustration was created by Harold McCauley for an as-of-yet unidentified Ziff-Davis title.

The Baby Factory

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price: $2,950.00  $2,065.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1940s, fantasy, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, lurid, machine age, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, Ziff-Davis
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

Joseph Pignone created this haunting and just mesmerizing gouache illustration painting for the July 1934 cover of Radio-Craft magazine. In this visually commanding original cover illustration from the machine age era of science and industry and modernist design aesthetics, a blind flapper girl with short bobbed hair holds a radio device that was created to guide the blind. Includes a printers proof tear sheet of the published magazine.

Radio Device Guides The Blind

Artist: Joseph Pignone
Price: $4,500.00  $3,150.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, flapper, Joseph Pignone, machine age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, Radio, sci-fi, science fiction
Added to Gallery: June 29, 2017

Futuristic, detailed, and very precise, we believe this science-fiction inspired imagination of cosmos exploration to have been created for cover use in the British magazine Understanding Science, a Sampson Low Publication.

Mars Satellite

Artist: Unknown British Illustrator
Price: $1,200.00  $840.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1960s, British, cold war, sci-fi, science, Understanding Science Magazine
Added to Gallery: June 28, 2017

This dazzling and otherworldly painting by Virgil Finlay appeared on the cover of the July 1954 issue of Fate magazine, a special issue solely focused on the powers of Hypnotism. A scarce original pulp cover illustration from this long running title, this was for many years part of the storied collection of Robert Weinberg. Work is nicely matted and framed […]

How To Hypnotize

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Fate Magazine, Golden Age, Hypnotism, lurid, magazine cover, original cover art, pulp, risque, sci-fi, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: February 28, 2017

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