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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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, 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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, 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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, 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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, 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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
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

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, 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

This large signed oil painting with an erotic science fiction/fantasy theme was exhibited at 1976’s OrlandoCon, an event that in many ways seems to be the template for todays Comic Con. McCauley was featured as an honored guest at the Florida comic convention, and unveiled previously unseen works that were either painted and unpublished in […]

The Queen of The Apes

Artist: Harold McCauley

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Harold McCauley, OrlandoCon, pulp, sci-fi
Added to Gallery: January 25, 2017

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