{"id":784,"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\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:38","slug":"early-elric-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/04\/28\/early-elric-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Elric Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not one of the better James Cawthorn<\/a>‘s covers. Elric looks like a Catholic priest. If it wasn’t for the black sword, I’d never have know it was Moorcock’s famed anti-hero. (Science Fantasy<\/span>, vol. 19, no. 55, October 1962 Image courtesy of the Pulp of the Day<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Compare it to this far superior Cawthorn cover to the first edition of Stormbringer<\/span> (Herbert Jenkins, 1965)<\/p>\n

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Even the inferior 1962 Cawthorn was a massive step up after Brian Lewis horrible cover to Elric’s first appearance (Science Fantasy<\/span>, vol. 16, no. 47, June 1961)<\/p>\n

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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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not one of the better James Cawthorn‘s covers. Elric looks like a Catholic priest. If it wasn’t for the black sword, I’d never have know it was Moorcock’s famed anti-hero. (Science Fantasy, vol. 19, no. 55, October 1962 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n