Tag: Barye W. Phillips

Fantastic September 1952, featuring “Professor Bingo’s Snuff”, by Raymond Chandler [Barye W. Phillips and Leo R. Summers]

Good Lord, what is going on here?!

The cover of the Summer, 1952 issue of Fantastic – the combined effort of Bayre Phillips and L.R. Summers for the magazine’s first issue – is obviously intended to set up an air; an atmosphere; a mood … to interest readers in the magazine, for it’s unrelated to any of the essays, novelettes, or short stories within the pulp.  The central element is the green-skinned woman (she’s emphatically not an Orion slave-girl), who’s holding a goblet filled with a red liquid of an undefined nature, which – port wine? – cherry daiquiri? – tomato juice? – something darkly else entirely? – ! – is fortunately left to the reader’s imagination.  Is she about to partake of this drink?  Or, is this an offering to the unwary reader?  And, that look upon her face; the forceful gaze of her eyes…  Threat or submission?  (I think the former.)  Demanding or beckoning?  (The former I think.)  What about that head-dress?  At passing first, from a distance, a mere mass of intertwined feathers.  At focused second, closely, a melange of intertwined writhing bodies.    

The cover’s ultimate message, enhanced by a bright, yellow, featureless background, is not “Danger – stay away!” 

It is, “Danger – come closer.  If you dare!”

Illustration by Virgil W. Finlay for “Six and Ten are Johnny”, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.  This story has never been anthologized.
(page 31)

The back cover features Pierre Roy’s oil on canvas painting of 1927 or 1928, “Danger on the Stairs”, which is in the holdings of the Museum of Modern Art, on 53rd Street in Manhattan. 

This is the pulp’s rear cover…

,,,and, a cropped view of the cover:

A view of the original work, from MoMA, the colors of which are presumably truer to Roy’s original than as reproduced in the magazine.

Other Things to Occupy Your Time…

Barye W. Phillips, at…

… Lambiek Comiclopedia

… Illustrated Gallery

… Alberto’s Pages

Leo R. Summers, at…

… Internet Speculative Fiction Database

… Pulp Artists

Howard Browne, at…

… Wikipedia

… Project Gutenberg

… Internet Speculative Fiction Database

… Science Fiction Studies # 8 (V 3, N 1, March, 1976, “The Lost Canticles of Walter M. Miller, Jr.”, by David N. Samuelson)

Raymond T. Chandler, at…

… Wikipedia

… Faded Page

… GoodReads

… Internet Movie Database

Pierre Roy, at…

… Wikipedia

… MoMA (Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art)

… MoMA – “Danger on the Stairs” (at Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art)

… Tate Galleries

… Brittanica (Topic: Surrealism)

The Golden Apples of the Sun, by Ray Bradbury – 1954 [Barye W. Phillips…maybe]

Though I’ve never been partial to the literary style or underlying themes of Ray Bradbury’s writing, I can still appreciate and respect the cultural and historical significance of his body of work.  And, from what I know “about” him, he was a genuinely kind human being, quite willing to bestow time and advice to budding authors.  In that regard, the foremost qualities that emerge from his interview by Charles Platt (in Dream Makers – The Uncommon People Who Write Science Fiction) are a sense of integrity, and, a deep dedication to his craft.

You can’t ignore somebody like that.

So, here’s Bantam’s 1954 anthology of twenty-two of his stories, entitled (by virtue of the last listed title) The Golden Apples of the Sun.  For the story “Embroidery”, originally published in the November, 1951 issue of Marvel Science Fiction, I’ve included the magazine’s cover (by Hannes Bok), while for “The Golden Apples of The Sun”, which first appeared in the November, 1953 issue of Planet Stories, I’ve added the issue’s cover (by Frank Kelly Freas).  Both images were downloaded from Archive.org, and Photoshopified just a little bit.

Contents

The Fog Horn, from The Saturday Evening Post, June 23, 1951

The Pedestrian, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February, 1952

The April Witch (from “The Elliott Family” series), from The Saturday Evening Post, April 5, 1952

The Wilderness (from “The Martian Chronicles” series) from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November, 1952

The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl, from Detective Book Magazine, Winter, 1948

Invisible Boy, from Mademoiselle, Winter, 1945

The Flying Machine

The Murderer

The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind

I See You Never, from The New Yorker, November 8, 1947

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Embroidery, from Marvel Science Fiction, November, 1951

“This month’s 4-color cover by well-known cover and interior artist, HANNES BOK.  Using a mixed technique of dyes, color pencil, water-color, and ink.”

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The Big Black and White Game, from The American Mercury, August, 1945

A Sound of Thunder, from Colliers, June 28, 1952

The Great Wide World Over There

Powerhouse (1948?)

En la Noche, from Cavalier, November, 1952

Sun and Shadow, The Reporter, 1953

The Meadow, World Security Workshop (ABC Radio Network radio program), 1947

The Garbage Collector

The Great Fire (“Green Town”?) (1949?)

Hail and Farewell

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The Golden Apples of the Sun, Planet Stories, November, 1953

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References

Platt, Charles, Dream Makers – The Uncommon People Who Write Science Fiction, Berkley Books, New York, N.Y., November, 1980

The Golden Apples of the Sun, at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

The Golden Apples of the Sun, at Wikipedia

Ray Bradbury, at RayBradbury.com