Category Archives: Art

The Fantastic Covers of Fantastic

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by Ed Valigursky

Fantastic was a magazine that featured stories of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.  It ran from 1952 to 1980, outlasting the majority of its competition and spinning off several other “Fantastic” magazines.  Eventually, after sells started to slow down in the 70s, Fantastic merged with Amazing Stories.  Today, issues of Fantastic are highly sought after by collectors, both for their stories and their covers.

Here are a few of the fantastic covers of Fantastic!

by Ed Valigursky

by Ed Valigursky

by Edmund Emshwiller

by George Schelling

by George Schelling

by Leo Summers

by Leo Summers

by Lloyd Buckingham

by Lloyd Buckingham

by Robert Frankenberg

Artwork of the Day: The Education of Lydia (Artist Unknown)

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Unknown Artist

This is from 1966.  Stories about “what really happened” at college were popular during the pulp era, because they both scared and titalated parents while giving the future college students of America something to look forward to.  The author’s name, Charles X. Wolffe, looks like an obvious pseudonym or a house name that many writers shared.  But Beacon Signal only published four books by “Charles X. Wolffe” so he might have been a real person.  Unfortunately ,the identity of the artist responsible for this cover is not known.

The Covers of Fantastic Universe

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by Edmund Emshwiller

It’s a new year and I don’t know about you but I feel like looking to the future.  From 1953 to 1960, Fantastic Universe did just that.  It was one of the many sci-fi magazines to be published in the 50s.  While it was never as financially successful as some of the other magazines of the age, it has since been acclaimed for the quality of its writing and for its covers!

Here, to get 2022 off to a good start, are a few of the covers of Fantastic Universe:

by Virgil Finlay

by Alex Schomburg

by Alex Schomburg

by Ed Moritz

by Frank Kelly Freas

by Leo Margulies

by Virgil Finlay

by Virgil Finlay

by Virgil Finlay

by Virgil Finlay

by Virgil Finlay

Artwork of the Day: Just A Picture Of A Park In The Rain

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by Erin Nicole

Happy New Year!

I know that this is a simple picture, especially considering that it’s the first artwork of the day of 2022.  I took it at the Shops at Legacy in Plano, Texas on one rainy afternoon.  I got soaked taking the picture but I think it was worth it.  It’s a picture that anyone could have taken but it’s also a picture that fill me with hope and peace, which is what we should all start the new year with.  Looking at this picture reminds me that there will always be storms but they will be temporary.  And sometimes, the rain can be beautiful.