Images and Thoughts to Inspire Your Intellect and Infuse Your Imagination!
Another cover by Stephen Salter, probably completed using an airbrush. Disconcerting, intriguing, and fascinating, all at once.
This was the second issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the first of ten covers Salter completed for the publication, nine of which appeared from “this” 1950 issue through December of 1951, and the last for June of 1955.
Here’s the cover of the first issue of The Magazine of Fantasy, prior to its change of title to the far familiarly known The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Notice that the cover is actually a photographic print from Kodachrome film, rather than the reproduction of a painting. The image of the long-tailed, smiling, nebulous whatever-it-is has been retouched upon the original image, while the model upon which he (it’s?) superimposed looks more inconvenienced than she does frightened.
Notice that the cover presents a nearly full list of the magazine’s table of contents, rather than – unlike most pulp magazines – the title and author of a select story. (“Private – Keep Out!”, by Philip MacDonald is superb…)
The Anomaly of The Empty Man
The First, 1952
Balaam, 1954
They Bite, 1947
Snulbug, 1941
Elsewhere
Secret of The House, 1943
Sriberdegibit, 1947
Star Bride
Review Copy, 1949
The Other Inauguration
