Art Profile: The Covers of Fantastic Adventures


Fantastic Adventures was an extremely successful and influential pulp magazine that was published from 1939 to 1953.  They published a combination of fantasy, horror, and adventure, all distinguished by a more light-hearted approach than some of the other pulp magazines of the era.

Even better, Fantastic Adventures was one of the few pulp magazines to give proper credit to its cover artists:

by Harold W. McCauley

by Ed Valigursky

by Raymond Naylor

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Stockton Mulford

by Harold W. McCauley

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Rod Ruth

by Walter Parke

by Arnold Kohn

Artist Profile: Robert Gibson Jones (1889 — 1969)


Originally born in Ohio, Robert Gibson Jones studied art at the Chicago Art School.  He worked in advertising through the 1920s before eventually doing his first pulp magazine cover in 1943.  He is best known for painting the covers of magazines like Amazing Stories, Amazing Adventures, and Mammoth Detective.

A small sampling of his work can be found below:

Amazing Adventures 1Amazing Sotires 2Amazing Stories 1Fantastic Adventure 2Fantastic Adventures 1Fantastic Adventures 3Fantastic Adventures 4Fantastic Adventures 5The Whispering Gorilla