Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values? 25 25

[PopKulture]

So very different, but I think I'll stick with my Dell 10-Center "Universe" with the Stanley cover.

[vaillant]

Just for a comparision: here's Kurt Caesar's illustration for the first edition of Van Vogt’s "The voyage of the Space Beagle" (from 1953).
Caesar is an amazing artist in his own right (and I will talk a lot about him when I can manage to start talking about italian comics and WW2) but on the Urania covers he often kinda adopted a "generic" american mainstream stile, not particularly striking. In this case, Thole's version for the second edition is a small masterpiece.

[vaillant]

4 minutes ago, PopKulture said:

So very different, but I think I'll stick with my Dell 10-Center "Universe" with the Stanley cover.

Is that this one? It’s a beauty!

[Pat Calhoun]

the Val 'Solar Lottery' is the first cov to PKD's first nov

 

 

Edited January 4, 2018 by Pat Calhoun

[PopKulture]

2 minutes ago, vaillant said:

Is that this one? It’s a beauty!

Yes, it is! And that's a nice copy.

[vaillant]

3 minutes ago, PopKulture said:

Yes, it is! And that's a nice copy.

Unfortunately it’s a found image… I have very little original editions, and the few I have are mostly of Clive Staple Lewis novels.
Most of the stuff I have is in italian recent editions.

[vaillant]

This appears to be Thole from an english edition:

Edited January 4, 2018 by vaillant

[vaillant]

One of my favorite among the more recent: cover to the first italian edition of Zelazny’s "The Changing Land” (1983):
(original painting sourced from an auction)

The series is always "Urania", which changed its cover graphic design three or four times across the decades.

[Pat Calhoun]

1959 Jerry Robinson

 

[vaillant]

20 minutes ago, Pat Calhoun said:

the Val 'Solar Lottery' is the first cov to PKD's first nov

So Jacono basically re-did the original, classic cover. Good to know.

 

1 minute ago, Pat Calhoun said:

1959 Jerry Robinson

Very cool, like the design.

[vaillant]

Speaking of "Starship Troopers", before doing that beautiful one for an english edition, Thole did the cover for the italian first edition.
It still shows a more "classic" approach, still "immature" compared to the abstract one he would quickly develop just a few months later!

[PopKulture]

[Surfing Alien]

Some really nice abstract art covers there. I have quite a few of those that I really like, mostly sci-fi, but the fine art still moves me more in this context...

[Surfing Alien]

Here's my "Universe" - it's not the prettiest but i've had it forever and it ain't going nowhere! What a classic!

[Surfing Alien]

Love the early Galaxy's... If you were raised on Heinlein you know there's no such thing as a free lunch

[OtherEric]

7 hours ago, Pat Calhoun said:

Cool stuff - here from Heritage catalog is the Val version

Let's do this:  A better scan of the book itself.  I think I posted this a while back, but it was lost in the photobucket collapse:

[OtherEric]

And here's the first publication of "Black Destroyer" from "The Voyage of the Space Beagle".  It's actually A. E. VanVogt's first published work:

[OtherEric]

And if we're talking about Heinlein's Universe, let's start at the beginning as well:

[MyNameIsLegion]

6 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

Love the early Galaxy's... If you were raised on Heinlein you know there's no such thing as a free lunch

TANSTAAFL! 

[vaillant]

@OtherEric: Great to see the first editions, thanks for posting these!