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Virgil Finlay illustrates The Star Beast by Poul Anderson, from Super Science Stories, September 1950. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #PoulAnderson #Illustration #Art #Tiger #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction

“Won’t you change?” she asked.
“Oh, yes. I won’t even be able to remember a lot of things I now know. I doubt if even the most intelligent tiger could understand vector analysis. But that won’t matter. I’ll get it back when they restore my human form.”

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Virgil Finlay illustrates The Star Beast by Poul Anderson, from Super Science Stories, September 1950. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #PoulAnderson #Illustration #Art #Tiger #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction

“Won’t you change?” she asked.
“Oh, yes. I won’t even be able to remember a lot of things I now know. I doubt if even the most intelligent tiger could understand vector analysis. But that won’t matter. I’ll get it back when they restore my human form.”

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A large tiger treads quietly through a desert region, seemingly recognizing the figure to its left.

“The tiger stopped. He knew that voice. He remembered—he remembered—“

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On a remote planet a woman in a dark dress reclines amongst the dunes.

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The Stealer of Souls and Other Stories, 1973 Lancer Books. A collection of the Elric novelettes The Dreaming City, While the Gods Laugh, Kings in Darkness, The Flame Bringers, and the title story.

🎨 Jeffrey Catherine Jones

#MichaelMoorcock #JeffreyCatherineJones #Elric #Fantasy @bookstodon

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The Stealer of Souls and Other Stories, 1973 Lancer Books. A collection of the Elric novelettes The Dreaming City, While the Gods Laugh, Kings in Darkness, The Flame Bringers, and the title story.

🎨 Jeffrey Catherine Jones

#MichaelMoorcock #JeffreyCatherineJones #Elric #Fantasy @bookstodon

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Elric of Melniboné, a warrior in a green cape stands at the head of an ancient galley vessel and raises his sword Stormbringer at a monstrous sea creature as the shocked rowers avert their gaze. 
             

             The Stealer of Souls
    *MEET THE INCREDIBLE ELRIC*
     *FIVE MAGNIFICENT STORIES*
*FANTASY ADVENTURE AT ITS BEST*
              Michael Moorcock

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C. L. Moore (1911-1987)

Her first published work was the haunting Shambleau published in Weird Tales in 1933, which drew the attention of Lovecraft and future husband Henry Kuttner, neither of whom knew her gender at the time. She wasn’t trying to hide that, but her writing side gig from her employer. Her Northwest Smith character bears more than a passing resemblance to Chewbacca’s pal Han, while her Jirel of Joiry is clearly Red Sonja’s mom.

#CLMoore #ScienceFiction #WeirdTales #SFF

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C. L. Moore (1911-1987)

Her first published work was the haunting Shambleau published in Weird Tales in 1933, which drew the attention of Lovecraft and future husband Henry Kuttner, neither of whom knew her gender at the time. She wasn’t trying to hide that, but her writing side gig from her employer. Her Northwest Smith character bears more than a passing resemblance to Chewbacca’s pal Han, while her Jirel of Joiry is clearly Red Sonja’s mom.

#CLMoore #ScienceFiction #WeirdTales #SFF

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Shambleau, a naked Medusa-like being with large green eyes and long flowing coils of red hair.

French collection of the Northwest Smith series from 1972. Cover art by Alexis Oussenko.

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Jirel, an armored warrior with long red hair is riding and surrounded by white horses as she raises a hand to call her army to battle. 

A collection of the Jirel of Joiry stories published by Ace Books in 1996. Cover Art by Stephen Hickman.

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With spaceships flying above a man in a high-collared long dark coat stands amongst a city on fire as a koala-type alien clings desperately to him.

Judgment Night, a collection of science fiction stories which was first published by Gnome Press in 1952. This is a facsimile edition published by Red Jacket Press in 2004. Cover Art by Frank Kelly Freas. 

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Our main protagonist is leaving a group of people surrounding a glowing orange orb. He is wearing a red tunic with black belt, green cape, brown leggings, Peter Pan shoes and a tall marching band hat for something extra. He is cowering from the giant image of a blonde-haired woman that appears above him.

Incidentally Lewis Padgett was a pseudonym that was used by Moore and husband Henry Kuttner usually to designate stories they collaborated on, so that’s an odd byline. An ‘Ace Double’ the other side of which is Daybreak—2250 A.D. by Andre Norton. Published by Ace Books in 1954. Cover Art by Harry Barton.

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“Double Escape” by Mœbius (Jean Giraud) from Métal Hurlant #50 (France, April 1980) which appears to be a riff on the classic Will Eisner Spirit story “The Story of Gerhard Shnobble” (September 5, 1948, excerpt).

#SilentSunday #Moebius #Mœbius #JeanGiraud #BandeDessinée #MétalHurlant #WillEisner #TheSpirit #GerhardShnobble #ComicBooks #Comics @comics @comicstodon

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“Double Escape” by Mœbius (Jean Giraud) from Métal Hurlant #50 (France, April 1980) which appears to be a riff on the classic Will Eisner Spirit story “The Story of Gerhard Shnobble” (September 5, 1948, excerpt).

#SilentSunday #Moebius #Mœbius #JeanGiraud #BandeDessinée #MétalHurlant #WillEisner #TheSpirit #GerhardShnobble #ComicBooks #Comics @comics @comicstodon

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A person in a blue shirt and socks, white pants, yellow shoes, and red cap is imprisoned in an open air tower with high walls. Slowly the person discovers they have the power of flight and rises over the walls and continues around outside the tower. The green-faced jailer in a green/brown militaristic uniform is doing the rounds of the tower and discovers the prisoner missing.

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The tower guard looks out of the window to see the prisoner flying through the air and reaching for a gun, shoots them dead. The prisoner’s body falls to the ground below as their soul floats out of it and rises. The jailer stands transfixed at the window bathed in brilliant light and cowering. 

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Gerhard Shnobble in a suit and hat is flying through the air and circling the ledges of a building where the crime fighter The Spirit, in a blue suit and domino mask is battling a group of criminals. One of them shoots Shnobble multiple times, killing him and sending his body hurtling towards the earth below as his hat remains suspended by the winds and his soul too rises from the body below.

AND SO... LIFELESS... 
GERHARD SHNOBBLE FLUTTERED 
EARTHWARD.

BUT DO NOT WEEP 
FOR SHNOBBLE...

RATHER SHED A TEAR 
FOR ALL MANKIND...

FOR NOT ONE PERSON IN THE 
ENTIRE CROWD THAT WATCHED 
HIS BODY BEING CARTED AWAY... KNEW 
OR EVEN SUSPECTED THAT 
ON THIS DAY GERHARD SHNOBBLE 
HAD FLOWN.

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Writer: Frank Doyle
Pencils: Dan DeCarlo
Inks: Rudy Lapick
#ArchieComics 1963

#DanDeCarlo #Comics #ComicBooks @comics @comicstodon

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Writer: Frank Doyle
Pencils: Dan DeCarlo
Inks: Rudy Lapick
#ArchieComics 1963

#DanDeCarlo #Comics #ComicBooks @comics @comicstodon

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Veronica Lodge walks through the streets of Riverdale in the rain wearing a fashionable yellow and black polka-dotted rain parka with matching umbrella and black boots. She's thinking, "Gollee! What a rain! I should be home with a good book!"