Posted in Dust Jacket Details on Nov 15th, 2011 No Comments »
For some of us old timers, it’s hard to believe that it has been almost 50 years since the “Burroughs Boom” of the ’60s. In 1962 both Don Wollheim at ACE Books, and Jack Biblo & Jack Tannen’s Canaveral Books began reprinting ERB titles that they believed to be in public domain. For the first [...]
Posted in Dust Jacket Details on Apr 2nd, 2011 4 Comments »
In a few e-mail exchanges with Edgar Rice Burroughs scholar Robert R. Barrett, a couple of speculations about the art for Tarzan at the Earth’s Core have arisen. One is about the status of the original painting, the fact being that none of the original art for any of the Metropolitan Books has ever shown [...]
Posted in Dust Jacket Details on Mar 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Here are three photos showing the progression of restoration from the first scan through the “forensic” stage. All rebuilding is based on what is revealed as the art is digitally adjusted. The first detail is from the scan of the actual dust jacket, showing the halftone rosettes that have to be smoothed out through the [...]
Posted in Dust Jacket Details on Mar 11th, 2011 No Comments »
After finishing the jackets for “Tanar of Pellucidar” and “A Fighting Man of Mars” last year, I’ve returned to T@EC. One of the problems with this particular jacket, for me, is the heavy screen that was used to make the halftone. Much of the image is soft and descreening to eliminate the halftone rosettes only [...]
Posted in Dust Jacket Details on Jun 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’ve been diligently working on setting the type and finalizing the art on three of the Metropolitan jackets: “Tanar of Pellucidar,” “Tarzan at the Earth’s Core” and “A Fighting Man of Mars.” Most of the cleanup for the cover illustrations and titling has been done over the last year. Several reference copies were used to [...]