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What made many of the great adventure comics of the 1960s so attractive were their fantastic painted covers by artist George Wilson. Unlike other comic book covers of the era, Wilson's covers harkened back to the era of pulp magazines and were spectacularly eye-catching. He turned in efforts for literally hundreds of comics titles including: Classics Illustrated, The Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Dr.Solar, Magnus Robot Fighter, Turok, Son of Stone and Star Trek, to name but a few. This new art book focuses on over 300 examples of his cover art and features numerous examples of Wilson's artwork scanned from the originals together with many of the book covers he created including his extensive run on Avon's The Phantom (as well as his work on the Gold Key version).

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Daniel Herman is an American attorney and the founder and president of Hermes Press, a publishing company founded in 2001 based in New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States. He also is the person primarily in charge of finding the source material used in Hermes Press reprints as well as a comics historian, having written several books on the topic of the Silver Age of comics, and a book on Gil Kane. George Wlson. was a prolfc comc ook cover llustrator. He s known for hs realstc style usng ols and acrylcs. A Rchmond Art School and the Pratt Insttute graduate and World War II veteran, Wlson worked for Western Pulshng, dong the covers for a numer of ther ttles, ncludng over forty ssues of ""Space Famly Ronson"", more than thrty ssues of Star Trek, and a few covers of The Phantom, and Mghty Samsom, Turok, Son of Stone . The other company he created numerous comc ook covers for was Dell Comcs for ther Tarzan and Comat releases

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