Heads Up: Two vintage posters by Jeffrey Jones available now on Ebay

29 March 201011 August 2016 RC1 Comment

Just a friendly note to let fans of Jeffrey Jones know that ebay seller intergalactic (Positive Feedback: 99.8%) has multiple copies of two vintage posters by Jeffrey Jones on sale right now: Chastity (9 available, as of today, for the “Buy It Now” price of US$10.95 each plus shipping) and Sleep (10 available, as of today, for the “Buy it Now” price of US$12.95 each plus shipping). I myself purchased one copy of each poster a short time ago, and was impressed both by the service and by the quality of the merchandise, though please keep in mind, if you decide to follow my lead, you buy at your own risk.

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Look Here: A third obscure paperback cover by Frank Frazetta

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The paperback indicia doesn’t include a publication date, but according to a couple of Web sites, the Paperback Library reprint edition of Danger Planet, which featured “Captain Future, inter-galactic agent of justice, whose identity is top secret, whose strength is ultimate,” was published in 1969, some 24 years after the original!

Click Image to Enlarge — **ABOVE:** Brett Sterling, *Danger Planet* (New York: Popular Library, 1969), with cover by Frank Frazetta.

As you can see from the above image of the actual painting (which was painted on an 18.75 x 12.5 inch canvasboard panel!), the section with Frazetta’s signature, and much else, was cropped for the cover. Frazetta didn’t get an interior cover credit either. Because everybody knows it’s timeless action heroes like “Captain Future” that sell books, not cover artists…

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Look Here: Two SF covers by Paul Lehr

29 March 201011 August 2016 RC1 Comment

Click here to view all of the covers by Paul Lehr that I’ve posted to date.

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Look Here: Five more by Paul Lehr

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paul-lehr_the-ring-of-ritornel_ny-berkley-1968 — **ABOVE:** Charles L. Harness, The Ring of Ritornel (New York: Berkley, 1968), with cover by Paul Lehr.

**ABOVE:** Edmund Cooper, *Kronk* (New York: Berkely, 1971), with cover by Paul Lehr.

**ABOVE:** Dav Garnett, *The Starseekers* (New York: Berkley, 1971), with cover by Paul Lehr.

paul-lehr_the-floating-zombie_ny-berkley-1975 — **ABOVE:** D. F. Jones, *The Floating Zombie* (New York: Berkley, 1975), with cover by Paul Lehr.

paul-lehr_the-slaves-of-heaven_ny-berkley-1975 — **ABOVE:** Edmund Cooper, *The Slaves of Heaven* (New York: Berkley, 1975), with cover by Paul Lehr.

Click here to view all of the Paul Lehr paperback covers I’ve posted so far.

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Look There, and Here: “Harry” by Jeffrey Jones

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Over at Atomic Surgery, blogger Staq Mavlen has posted scans of Jeffrey Jones’s short story, “Harry,” from Vampirella #85, in crisp black and white. What Mavlen doesn’t mention is that “Harry” was originally published in Vampirella #32, with day-glo colours by none other than Richard Corben! To compare the two versions, simply click here to read the black-and-white reprint and scroll down on this page to read the original colour publication:

Anyone prefer the colour version?

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Look Here: Two more paperback covers by Jeffrey Jones

2 March 201011 August 2016 RC1 Comment

The cavalcade of covers by Jeffrey Jones continues, though the pace is slowing…

**ABOVE:** Quinn Reade, *Quest of the Dark Lady* (New York: Belmont Books, 1969), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** J. Hunter Holly, *The Dark Planet* (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1971), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

Click here to view the entire collection (so far).

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Look Here, Read: “Lay of the Sea,” with art by Leo Duranona

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From the pages of Devilina, volume 1, number 1 (January 1975), here’s the unfortunately named, but expertly illustrated, “Lay of the Sea,” with story by Gabe Levy and art by Leo Duranona (1938-):

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Look Here: Ten more paperback covers by Jeffrey Jones

5 February 201011 August 2016 RC4 Comments

The original reproduction on many of the following covers by Jeffrey Jones, all from the library of yours truly, was very poor, so my scans are sometimes not the best here. One exception is the last cover, Twilight of the Serpent, which actually showcases Jones’s artwork in more detail and with more lively colour than does the rather dour reproduction on the back cover of publisher Underwood-Miller’s lavish hardcover, The Art of Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** Robert Silverberg, ed., *Earthmen & Strangers* (New York: Dell, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** A. E. Van Vogt, *The Book of Ptath* (New York: Paperback Library, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** Samuel R. Delany, *The Jewels of Aptor* (New York: Ace, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, *The Incomplete Enchanter* (New York: Pyramid, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** Peter Saxon, *The Curse of Rathlaw* (New York: Prestige Books, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** Richard Meade, *The Sword of Morning Star* (New York: Signet, 1969), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** Frank Brunner, *Bedlam Planet* (New York: Ace, n.d.), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** Peter Valentine Timlett, *Twilight of the Serpent* (New York: Bantam Books, 1977), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

My favourites this time around are the covers for The Curse of Rathlaw (1968), an early effort in which Jones’s attractive design for the vignette is nicely reinforced by the typography, and Twilight of the Serpent (1977), a later cover which displays Jones’s hard-won skills as a draftsman (or draughtsman, if you prefer), mastery of lost-and-found edges in oil painting, and increasing willingness in the 1970s and early 1980s to produce images that went against the grain of traditional heroic fantasy.

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Look Here: “Nightmare” cover by Jeffrey Jones

27 January 201011 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

The following cover by Jones is from the Skywald horror magazine, Nightmare, volume 1, number 6 (December 1971):

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Look Here: Four more covers by Paul Lehr

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**ABOVE:** Arthur C. Clarke, *The Deep Range* (New York: Signet, 1964), with cover by Paul Lehr.

**ABOVE:** Keith Laumer and Gorden R. Dickson, *Planet Run* (New York: Berkley, 1967), with cover by Paul Lehr.

**ABOVE:** John Brunner, *More Things in Heaven* (New York: Dell, 1973), with cover by Paul Lehr.

**ABOVE:** Keith Laumer, *Night of Delusions* (New York: Berkley, 1974), with cover by Paul Lehr.

The 1964 edition of The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke with the cover by Paul Lehr is a pretty cool find, I think. It’s a pity the artwork is obscured by the title, etc., but the book is in excellent condition, so it scanned fairly nicely, and of course, it is instructive to compare it with Lehr’s later covers, which, unlike The Deep Range, typically combine highly saturated colours with a strict adherence to traditional colour schemes.