My original tumblr post was here. It was originally posted by arcaneimages and Fifi at feeling-is-first added text:
Three glowing specimens of male virility with plenty of staying power in a round-the-clock orgy that was outasite
THE OVERSEXED ASTRONAUTS by M. “Coxe”
My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 071 – Cave Girl, Serpent Undies.” Here is what Bacchus found.
According to this web page, the artwork above is by Robert Gibson Jones and it appeared on the cover of the September 1945 issue of Amazing Stories:
The artist’s signature is partly visible lower right in the image. Robert Gibson Jones was a prolific pulp artist of the 1940s and 1950s. A bibliography of his many science fiction magazine covers and interior illustrations is here.
My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 068 – Robot Control Panel.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This image is a page from the October 1929 issue of Hugo Gernsback’s Air Wonder Stories (available in its entirety here). The artwork is signed “Paul”, which corresponds to the magazine’s art director Frank R. Paul, as seen on the masthead:
The artist Frank R. Paul is one of the most influential illustrators in the history of American pulp magazines. He is perhaps most famous for his illustration of Martian robots on the cover of the 1927 Amazing Stories magazine where H.G. Wells’s War Of The Worlds was first serialized.
My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 064 – Killer Radio.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This artwork is from the back cover of a Big Little Book (#1151) by Dick Adair published in 1938 by Saalfield Publishing Company (which in its day was, according to Wikipedia, “one of the largest publishers of children’s materials in the world”). Here are some smaller but more complete images of the cover boards, which display the same artwork front and back:
A BLB catalog here identifies the cover artist as J. R. White:
DEATH BY SHORT WAVE Jumbo Book®; 1938. Hard cover, sewn binding. Standard size: 3 5/8″ x 4 1/2″ x 1 1/2″; 400 pages. Author: Dick Adair. Artist: J. R. White.
The full title according to various used book databases and catalogs appears to have been “Death By Short Wave: A G-Man Story.” There seems not to be much information available on the web about artist J. R. White, although the name appears frequently as an illustrator of other children’s titles in the format that came to be known as Big Little Books. For instance, this page lists White as the illustrator of Tom Swift And His Magnetic Silencer, a 1941 Better Little Book published by Whitman.
My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 062 – Binding Fumes.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This artwork is cropped from the cover of the September 1948 issue of Amazing Stories magazine. The complete cover:
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits the cover art to Robert Gibson Jones, a prolific pulp artist of the 1940s and 1950s whose signature is also visible lower right in the uncropped cover image. A bibliography of his many science fiction magazine covers and interior illustrations is here.
My original tumblr post was here. Attentive readers of Erotic Mad Science will note that this particular illustration has also been the subject of a pulp art recreation. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 061 – Alien Experimenters.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This artwork is cropped and photoshopped from the cover of the November 1939 issue of Uncanny Tales magazine:
PulpArtists.com credits the art on this cover to J. W. Scott, a prolific pulp artist and magazine illustrator from Camden, New Jersey.
My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 059 – The Brain In The Sphere.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This image is a cropped and crudely-photoshopped version of the cover of Marvel Science Stories from August 1938.
According to this page, the cover artist is Norman Saunders, a prolific pulp artist from the 1930s through the 1960s. A great deal of additional information about Norman Saunders is available at NormanSaunders.com. Interestingly, this is the artist who painted the famous Mars Attacks trading cards in 1962.
My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 058 – The Floating Robot.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This image is signed H.W. McCauley (for Harold W. McCauley) and may be found on Flickr in downloadable sizes up to 2239×3000 pixels. It is the artwork that was used on the cover of Fantastic Adventures magazine in January of 1941:
The same robot appears in an interior illustration introducing the story The Floating Robot (by David Wright O’Brien):
Artist H.W. McCauley is the subject of a short profile here:
A Chicago native, Harold McCauley trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the American Academy of Art. From 1939 until 1942, he worked at Haddon Sundbloom’s busy Chicago art studio and posed for the original painting of the Quaker Oats Man. Starting in 1946, McCauley worked as a staff artist for the Ziff-Davis publishing house and painted over a hundred covers for magazines like Amazing, Fantastic Adventures, and Mammoth Detective. Duringthe early 1960s, he also painted several covers for Nightstand Library.
This fanzine article about McCauley offers a photograph of the artist, who does indeed somewhat resemble the famous Quaker Oats logo:
My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 057 – Tube Twins.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This image is a cutout detail (heavily blown up) from the cover of a modern edition of Twin Of The Amazon, a 1948 pulp novel from the 27-volume Golden Amazon series, by author John Russell Fearn:
According to the International Science Fiction Database, the full cover art shown directly above is by artist Ron Turner and was scanned from a 1998 re-release edition of the book. Turner’s career credits begin in 1950 and continued through his death in 1998, so it is clear that this cover could not have appeared on the original 1948 edition of the book. However, both Wikipedia and the ISFDB indicate there was also a 1954 edition. The Wikipedia entry for Ron Turner, though, suggests he did not begin drawing cover art for Gryphon Books until the 1990s, leading to the conclusion that this artwork is quite modern. Indeed, the cover of one 1954 edition seen here is far less lurid:
Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 020 – Is Anybody Out There? Here is what Bacchus found.
This image is cropped from the cover of a 1985 edition of a 1979 French-language science fiction novel by Phillipe Curval, titled Y a quelqu’un?, which title means, roughly, “Is anybody there?”
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database has a detailed bibliography and brief biographical information for Phillipe Curval. The same source identifies the artist for this cover as French artist Philippe Caza. That seems to match the thinly-drawn signature under the small male figure lower left in the artwork.
