{"id":3444,"date":"2008-04-28T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/04\/28\/early-elric-covers-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T14:44:12","slug":"early-elric-covers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/04\/28\/early-elric-covers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Elric Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not one of the better <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savoy.abel.co.uk\/HTML\/cawthpic.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">James Cawthorn<\/a>\u2018s covers.  Elric looks like a Catholic priest.  If it wasn\u2019t for the black sword, I\u2019d never have know it was Moorcock\u2019s famed anti-hero. (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Science Fantasy<\/span>, vol. 19, no. 55, October 1962  Image courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulpoftheday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Pulp of the Day<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/5969845904815e209a9674.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Compare it to this far superior Cawthorn cover to the first edition of <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Stormbringer<\/span> (Herbert Jenkins, 1965)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savoy.abel.co.uk\/IMAGES\/elric2.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Even the inferior 1962 Cawthorn was a massive step up after Brian Lewis horrible cover to Elric\u2019s first appearance (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Science Fantasy<\/span>, vol. 16, no. 47, June 1961)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noosfere.com\/showcase\/IMAGES\/sciencefant_47.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Elric looks like some dandy from an Errol Flynn movie not the fierce stealer of souls, agent of chaos and destroy of worlds, that we all know and love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/04\/28\/early-elric-covers\/\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Early Elric Covers<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not one of the better James Cawthorn\u2018s covers. 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