Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Space Man, A Stand Up Comic


Another long-lost, early John Schoenherr illustration has come to light, thanks to the work log that I found a few weeks ago: it's the cover for issue #3 of the comic book Space Man, published by Dell in 1962.

It's job #225 in the log, which shows that Dell commissioned him on February 7, 1962, and paid him $200 on April 17. The original painting - wherever it is! - is most likely gouache on illustration board.

This one's closer to his usual fare than the Monster Parade covers, but it's still an oddball - at least compared to much of his other science fiction pictures. Its "retro" quality would make it at home on a pulp magazine or B-movie poster of the 1940s or 1950s. He sure could could lay it on thick, when need be.

2 comments:

  1. Wonder if it was on purpose that Schoenherr put the lady's left thumb on the wrong side of her hand.

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  2. Or her thumb is emerging from between her middle and ring fingers. Maybe she was playing "Got-your-nose!" with the alien and it made him angry.

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