Painted cover for the November 1950 issue of Startling Stories by Earle Bergey. Our dancing girl also rates an interior illustration by Paul Orban.
This issue is available to be read and downloaded at the Internet Archive.
Another cover illustration for Startling Stories (July 1947) by Earle Bergey, for George O. Smith’s story “The Kingdom of the Blind.” There is additional art by an uncredited artist on the interior for the same story.
This issue of Startling Stories is available to be read and downloaded at the Internet Archive.
Startling Stories had a good long run between 1939 and 1955 and rarely skimped on the sexy on its covers (perhaps that’s why it had a good long run!). This cover was done by Earle Bergey. There’s a fair amount of interior art, for example this by Paul Orban.
This issue is available to read or download at the Internet Archive.
This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for June 1951, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. This issue contains this interior illustration to William Campbell Gault’s story “Fog” by Paul Orban:
And, in a more whimsical vein, this one to Roger Dee’s “Girl from Callisto” by Alex Schomburg:
You can download and read the entire issue at The Internet Archive.
This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for October 1950, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. The title story “Shadow on the Sand” includes this Virgil Finlay illustration:
You can download and read the entire issue at the Internet Archive.
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This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for Spring 1944, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. In addition to some interior art reproductions found at Pulp Covers, the issue also has this uncredited illustration for Manley Wade Wellman’s “Gambler’s Asteroid.”
You can download and read this issue at the Internet Archive.
This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for Winter 1946, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at here. Murray Leinster’s story “The Disciplinary Circuit” got some good interior illustration, sadly uncredited, including this (p 45):
and this (p 47):
In Edmond Hamilton’s “Forgotten World” had an uncredited illustration to reminds me that women of the future are supposed to dress in a way that should make me envy my great-grandson.
You can download and read the entire issue at the Internet Archive.
This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for Summer 1946, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. Here is some unattributed (but intriguing) internal art illustrating Polton Cross’s story “Twilight Planet:”
You can download and read the entire issue at the Internet Archive.
This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for February 1947, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. Browsing the issue as preserved at the Internet Archive has turned up some interesting cover art, for example this by Virgil Finlay illustrating Murray Leinster’s “The Manless Worlds.”
And this uncredited piece (perhaps I’m more in love with the concept than the illustration itself) illustrating John Russell Fearn’s “Sweet Mystery of Life.”
You can download and read the entire issue at the Internet Archive.
This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for June 1950, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. I found some interior art in the version of the magazine preserved at the Internet Archive, such as the following by Paul Orban, illustrating Raymond Z. Gallun’s story “Coffins to Mars.”
You can download and read the entire issue at the Internet Archive.