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Very Large (22 1/2" X 17" Image, On Larger Board) Ink Drawing With Small Area Of Clear Plastic Infill Crosshatching, For The Story In Amazing. From The Estate Of Sf Author, A. E. Van Vogt. Geier, Chester S (1921-1990), Us Author And Editor, Began Publishing Work Of Sf Interest With "A Length Of Rope" For Unknown In April 1941 And Became Active In The Ziff-Davis Stable (For Amazing And Fantastic Adventures) In The 1940S, Where He Published A Large Amount Of Routine Material Under His Own Name And Pseudonyms Including Guy Archette And The House Names Alexander Blade, P F Costello, Warren Kastel (Initially Used For Collaborations With His Friend William L Hamling, S M Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance And Peter Worth. Book-Length Tales Include "Minions Of The Tiger" (September 1946 Fantastic Adventures), Forever Is Too Long (March 1947 Fantastic Adventures; 2012 Dos) And Hidden City (July 1947 Amazing; 2013); Plus "Outlaw In The Sky" (February 1953 Amazing) As By Archette, Which Is Essentially A Western With A Few Sf Transpositions. Geier Ran The Shaver Mystery Club (See Richard S Shaver) As A Favour To Ray Palmer, Editing The Shaver Mystery Magazine On Its Behalf; He Had Collaborated With Shaver On Ice City Of The Gorgon (June 1948 Amazing). His Short Stories Have Never Been Collected In Book Form, And Only Two, "Environment" (May 1944 Astounding) And "The Children" (April 1951 Fantastic Adventures), Have Been Anthologized. (Source: Science Fiction Encyclopedia). Joseph Wirt Tillotson (1905-1959), Sf Illustrator, Primarily Used The Working Name Robert Fuqua; Others Included R Fuqua, Fuqua, Joe Tillotson, Joe W Tillotson, Joe Wirt Tillotson, Joseph W Tillotson And His Full Name, Joseph Wirt Tillotson. He Received His Formal Art Education At The Art Institute Of Chicago, Then Went Into Advertising In That City; He Took On Freelance Illustration Commissions, Signing These "Robert Fuqua" ? His Maternal Grandfather's Name ? To Disguise His Second Career From His Advertising Clients. In Due Course Fuqua Became A Prolific Artist For The Ziff-Davis Magazines, Then Based In Chicago; Between 1938 And 1944 He Painted 24 Covers For Amazing Stories, With One More In July 1951; During That 1938-44 Period He Also Did Seven Covers For Fantastic Adventures With, Again, Another In 1951. He Did Perhaps Twice As Many Back Covers For These Magazines. When Ziff-Davis Moved Away From Chicago, Fuqua Stayed, Contributing Illustrations To Raymond A Palmer's Magazines Imagination And Other Worlds. One Of The More Prominent Sf Illustrators Of The 1930S And 1940S, Fuqua, Like Other Artists Working On These Magazines At The Time ? Such As J Allen St John ? Used Very Bright Colors To Compensate For Poor Reproduction Processes. His Melodramatic Style ? The Very Essence Of Pulp-Magazine Sf ? Perfectly Complemented The Lurid Ethos Of Ziff-Davis And Ray Palmer. Seller Inventory # 038900
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