The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – September, 1958 (Featuring “Have Spacesuit – Will Travel”, by Robert A. Heinlein) [Edmund A. Emshwiller] [Updated post…]

Dating all-the-way-back to August of 2018 (gadzooks!), the cover of MF&SF originally displayed in this post – at bottom – was damaged.  But at the time I had no choice:  It was the only copy in my possession at the time.  

Four years having passed, I’ve recently obtained a near-pristine copy of MF&SF’s September, 1958, issue, which displays Emshwiller’s great cover art in its full complexity and color:  It’s for the second of the three-part Robert Heinlein story, “Have Space Suit – Will Travel”.   

Do enjoy!

Here’s the original.  (Ugh!)

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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – August, 1958 (Featuring “Have Spacesuit – Will Travel”, by Robert A. Heinlein) [Edmund A. Emshwiller] [Updated post!…  February 6, 2021]

[This post, created on June 30, 2018, is very simple:  It shows the cover of the August, 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, in which appeared the first installment of Robert Heinlein’s  Have Spacesuit – Will Travel.  It’s now updated to an image of Edmund Emshwiller’s (a.k.a. EMSH) original cover art.  The original composition readily conveys how the center of activity and therefore visual interest in Emshwiller’s composition, is situated to right and at bottom, leaving room for the magazine’s title and contents to left and at top.  Also, both the original painting and the cover as published are a great example of how Emshwiller would cleverly situate his logo – EMSH – within the painting in such a manner as to make it an almost natural part of the scene.] 

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The cover as published…

…Edmund Emshwiller’s original art, from Heritage Auctions.  The original is described as “acrylic on board, 19.75 x 13.5 inches, framed under acrylic to 24.5 x 18.25 inches, from the Glynn and Suzanne Crain Collection“.

Reference

“Have Spacesuit-Will Travel, Fantasy and Science Fiction cover”, August 1958, at Heritage Auctions

June 30, 2018