Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:40:49 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
CC: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] [WSFA] Re: annoyances: looking for classic pulp sf cover
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Michael Walsh wrote:
>> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 4/16/2011 9:25 PM >>> Ted White wrote:
>>> On 4/16/2011 11:32 AM, mark wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was talking about making a coffee table train set, but
>>>> futuristic. I was looking for the classic pulp cover, with
>>>> someone(s) flying towards a futuristic city, skyscrapers shaped
>>>> like giant rockets, flying bridges, all in parkland... and
>>>> can't find it googling. Anyone have a link?
>>> Many of Frank R. Paul's covers for AMAZING (1926-29), WONDER
>>> STORIES (1929-36) or his back covers for AMAZING in the late '30s
>>> and early '40s will fit your needs.
>
> Indeed.  As a matter of fact, one of Paul's back cover pieces for
> Amazing appeared as the cover to a Johns Hopkins book:
> http://tinyurl.com/ycck5ea
>
Neat!
>
>> Didn't see any, at least yet, but Bill Higgins pointed me to
>> <http://www.coverbrowser.com/>, where I just spent a half an hour
>> or so going through pulp covers, and having a wonderful time, back
>> when there was more sf than fantasy, and the future was so
>> *big*....
>
> There's this thing called Google Image search.  Search for: "frank r.
> paul" city  - you get lots of images.

Right, but I don't know that what's in my head was by Paul.

mark

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