"Anyone Know The Context Of This Frazetta Painting?" Topic

What's the story behind this painting? Who is that hero?

Is it part of a magazine cover, a stand-alone piece or something else?

Thanks.

Dan

It looks like it should be a mass market paperback cover from the 60s or 70s.

I believe that is the cover of the paperback novel
"The Solar Invasion" published 1968.
Check this link for image of the novel cover
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Well done. I was delayed by the ever popular "Verify your email" ritual.

WarWizard

You da man! Thanks so much.

Dan

Damn, now I wanna read that book.

And I wanna learn how to make some of those centipede-like tentacles!

Dan

Nice! I've now found another Weird Fiction author to read. Wellman wrote SF, sword and sorcery, and horror tales. He was not part of Lovecraft's circle – slightly too young – but afterward he continued some Mythos inspired tales set in Appalachia.

Dan, I'm pretty sure I've seen some plastic fern-like plants that would work for those tentacles. You'd have to mock up the suction pads, but that might be as simple as a deftly applied heated metal paper clip or some such.

I've looked, but will keep on looking. The centipede vines/tentacles in the painting definitely do look awesome.

Dan

"Manly Wade Wellman".
Now, that's a name!

the name does say it all on the tin doesn't it

If you wait until Halloween, Dollar Tree sells bags of centipedes that would be perfect for those tentacles…

Damn, now I wanna read that book.

Problem is, in Sci fi the cover often has nothing to do with the content of the book.

Virtual, not necessarily so. Yeah, the old joke was "cover illustrators can't read: blurb writers CAN read, but have not read the book."

Frazetta, however could and did read the books he did covers for. I haven't found a synopsis of The Solar Invasion yet, but it's a Captain Future story, so the male there would be Captain Future himself (Curtis Newton) the robot would be Grag, who was a series regular, and one of the females would be Future's main squeeze, Planetary Police Agent Joan Randell.

Now I want to read them. Those stories are so old they'd have a proper Mars in them with canals and ancient civilizations, instead of that rather depressing place we keep getting pictures of lately.

WOW! The ladies don't have the massive hips and behinds that Frazetta usually drew. I really like this painting!

And I checked. Dan, you can get it on kindle. "Captain Future #20, The Solar Invasion."

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There is the story in the original Startling Stories as it was meant to be.

And again +1 for Robert. There is a proper Mars and there there is the real Mars. And we all know which one we want.

Shadow

To each his own, I guess. There are many of us who, given the choice, will still prefer Frazetta's curvy women over Vallejo's more manly, hmm I mean, muscular ones. :)

Dan
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Dan

Curvey, like Sofia Vergara is very nice. Too me, many of Frazetta's women just look overweight.

Lol. Sofia with or without her implants? :)

Seeing as how Marilyn Monroe is still considered a hot sex symbol by many, even today, I can see why Frazetta's style makes perfect sense to some of the same people. :)

Dan

I stumbled upon a Captain Future novel not too long ago (by Edmund Hamilton, too). It was a hoot, with all the over-the-top bombast one expects from a space version of Doc Savage (more or less). I just may have to track down other examples of this series; I had no idea it had so many titles!

Guys

These little guys would rock even if used alongside 15mm (or bigger) human figures, don't you think?

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Dan