CARSON OF VENUS - Variant for the Canaveral Press Edition
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CARSON OF VENUS - Variant - Canaveral Press $8.99
ARGOSY WEEKLY ran Carson of Venus as a weekly serial from January 8 to February 12, 1938. Only the first issue was given a full
color cover by artist Rudolph Belarski. I used that color illustration for this variant to replace the poorly executed redesign cover
done by Sam Sigaloff from John Coleman Burroughs' first edition cover.
As far as I know, this is Belarski's only illustration for a Burroughs work. I drafted the following short essay about Belarski from
three different Wikipedia articles.
During the late 20’s, pulp publishers were trying specialized titles, magazines with fiction that centered on a central theme.
Gangsters, Fire Fighters, Spies, Navy Stories, and flying in to fill yet another void came aviation magazines. Air Stories from Fiction
House was the first aviation title, but it was soon followed by a host of others, including Dell’s War Birds. Belarski’s talented brush
produced art for nearly all of them.
Starting in those early Avaition pulps, Rudolph Belarski became a master of all types of pulp illustration, but it was for the
adventure magazines that he excelled. Of all the genres that pulp magazine publishers published, the adventure genre perhaps
had the largest readership. Titles like Argosy, Thrilling Adventure, All-American Fiction, along with dozens of other adventure titles
screamed for the readers attention. Their fiction spanned from the ancient historical to future science. Characters sprang from
their pages into the popular culture conscience. Characters like Tarzan, Doctor Kildare, Horatio Hornblower, John Carter of Mars,
crept into the lives of their readers and spawned new breeds of entertainment in the form of comic books, paperbacks and
television.
Belarski’s cover illustrations ran the gamut of pulp illustration. In his covers you could almost see the sweat forming on the brow
of some explorer hacking through an African jungle, the bullets tearing through the jodhpurs of some pith-helmeted adventurer,
or feel the sword of a Russian Cossack. Working for both Munsey’s Argosy and Pine’s Thrilling Adventures, Belarski brought to life
many a dashing swashbuckler.
Although adventure fiction magazines were among the last to die out when the pulps faded into obscurity, Rudolph Belarski turned
in his last canvases for Argosy and Thrilling Adventures early on during World War II. For Belarski, his art was going to change
course back to his past where he first got his start in painting covers for the aviation magazines… this time illustrating British,
Canadian and American aviators.
In the 1950s Belarski transferred his talents to the paperback book industry. It is a testament to his talent that today his work is
actively sought by collectors of both pulp and paperback-cover art. He died in December of 1983.
color cover by artist Rudolph Belarski. I used that color illustration for this variant to replace the poorly executed redesign cover
done by Sam Sigaloff from John Coleman Burroughs' first edition cover.
As far as I know, this is Belarski's only illustration for a Burroughs work. I drafted the following short essay about Belarski from
three different Wikipedia articles.
During the late 20’s, pulp publishers were trying specialized titles, magazines with fiction that centered on a central theme.
Gangsters, Fire Fighters, Spies, Navy Stories, and flying in to fill yet another void came aviation magazines. Air Stories from Fiction
House was the first aviation title, but it was soon followed by a host of others, including Dell’s War Birds. Belarski’s talented brush
produced art for nearly all of them.
Starting in those early Avaition pulps, Rudolph Belarski became a master of all types of pulp illustration, but it was for the
adventure magazines that he excelled. Of all the genres that pulp magazine publishers published, the adventure genre perhaps
had the largest readership. Titles like Argosy, Thrilling Adventure, All-American Fiction, along with dozens of other adventure titles
screamed for the readers attention. Their fiction spanned from the ancient historical to future science. Characters sprang from
their pages into the popular culture conscience. Characters like Tarzan, Doctor Kildare, Horatio Hornblower, John Carter of Mars,
crept into the lives of their readers and spawned new breeds of entertainment in the form of comic books, paperbacks and
television.
Belarski’s cover illustrations ran the gamut of pulp illustration. In his covers you could almost see the sweat forming on the brow
of some explorer hacking through an African jungle, the bullets tearing through the jodhpurs of some pith-helmeted adventurer,
or feel the sword of a Russian Cossack. Working for both Munsey’s Argosy and Pine’s Thrilling Adventures, Belarski brought to life
many a dashing swashbuckler.
Although adventure fiction magazines were among the last to die out when the pulps faded into obscurity, Rudolph Belarski turned
in his last canvases for Argosy and Thrilling Adventures early on during World War II. For Belarski, his art was going to change
course back to his past where he first got his start in painting covers for the aviation magazines… this time illustrating British,
Canadian and American aviators.
In the 1950s Belarski transferred his talents to the paperback book industry. It is a testament to his talent that today his work is
actively sought by collectors of both pulp and paperback-cover art. He died in December of 1983.
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of payment, even on weekends --- It won't go out until the next workday, but it will be dropped off at the post office within
twenty-four hours of payment. Shipping in the USA is free, calculated in the cost of the product.
International shipping to Canada and Great Britain only: $4.00 added to the overall costs. (See SERVICES on the navbar
above.)
eMail if there is a problem with fitting your DJ. I'll pre-fit it on my book just to be as sure as possible that all is correct.
However, anything is possible. So contact me immediately if you have a problem.