Ed Valigursky, US space artist and imagineer of the SWORD Booster Rocket, Spacex MEV2 and Spacex Nova Rocket, was a prolific pulp book and magazine cover illustrator during the 1950's and 60's.
Looking further at his book cover art, Mr. Valigursky was obviously keen on rockets, robots and monsters. He was also keen on painting young people of both sexes and in particular a dark haired spaceman.
His hero is classicly handsome, often uniformed and very versatile, a sort of Rock Hudson type in space. There's often a high collar or some red somewhere too.
Here's a sample gallery of this Valigursky man below - was it a self portrait? You will find many more googling the artist's name.
Similarly handsome and uniformed females graced Ed's covers and a good example was on the front of the Ace Double, Wandl the Invader.
Do you like Ed's space men and women readers?
Love that clean, colourful, dynamic, style.
ReplyDeleteTailor made for pulp fiction covers to grab your attention.
Yes, that is a great style!
ReplyDeleteWell done finding this novel in your local second hand bookshop Zigg!
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