Look Here: Four prints by Roy G. Krenkel

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My guess is that the images reproduced in the following prints were originally painted by RGK in gouache on paper or illustration board:

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Look Here: Two Ace SF Classics, with cover art by Roy Krenkel

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These are the only two “Ace Science Fiction Classic” paperbacks with cover art by Roy Krenkel that I own, so enjoy!

roy-krenkel_pirates-of-venus_ny-ace-1963 — **ABOVE:** Edgar Rice Burroughs, *Pirates of Venus* (New York: Ace, 1963), with cover art by Roy Krenkel.

roy-krenkel_escape-on-venus_ny-ace-1964 — **ABOVE:** Edgar Rice Burroughs, *Escape on Venus* (New York: Ace, 1964), with cover art by Roy Krenkel.

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Look Here: Three Ace paperbacks, with cover art by Frazetta

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Frazetta’s Krenkel-influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs covers will be familiar to many, but his Maza of the Moon cover is somewhat less well known, mainly because the book’s author, Otis Adelbert Kline, never achieved any lasting popularity:

frank-frazetta_carson-of-venus_ny-ace-1963 — **ABOVE:** Edgar Rice Burroughs, *Carson of Venus* (New York: Ace, 1963), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.

frank-frazetta_lost-on-venus_ny-ace-1963 — **ABOVE:** Edgar Rice Burroughs, *Lost on Venus* (New York: Ace, 1963), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.

frank-frazetta_maza-of-the-moon_ny-ace-1965 — **ABOVE:** Otis Adelbert Kline, *Maza of the Moon* (New York: Ace, 1965), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.

If Otis Adelbert Kline is known for anything, it is not the quality of his writing but the way he promoted his highly derivative adventure stories by surreptitiously circulating a rumour, reported in the fan press but later debunked, of a feud between himself and the pulp-fiction juggernaut he most closely styled himself after, Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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