Wally Wood Galaxy

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ARTIST: WALLY WOOD WRITER: ROGER HILL DESIGN: SERBAN CRISTESCU ASSISTANT EDITOR: MICHAEL BENEDETTO EDITOR: SCOTT DUNBIER PUBLISHER: TED ADAMS 2

WALLY WOOD: GALAXY ART AND BEYOND MAY 2016. FIRST PRINTING. © 2016 Idea and Design Works, LLC. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Text © Roger Hill. “WALLY WOOD” is a registered trademark of, and used by agreement with, Wallace Wood Properties, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Editorial offices: 2765 Truxtun Road, San Diego, CA 92106. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea.

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Planet Stories January 1953 Illustration for “War Drums of Mercury Lost” by John Jakes

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Planet Stories September 1953 Illustration for “The Un-Reconstructed Woman” by Hayden Howard

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Wally Wood Galaxy

Published on May 16, 2016

IDW Publishing

Wally Wood’s career is legendary among the annals of comic’s history. He rocketed to fame working on Will Eisner’s The Spirit newspaper strip and became one of the most talented artists working for EC Comics during the 1950s. Wood also became a star of EC’s satire comic called Mad, which went on to even greater success as a magazine, allowing the artist to apply his amazing talents in a broader spectrum. When the comics industry fell on lean times during the mid 1950s, Wood segued into the field of science fiction pulp illustration, providing over 200 beautiful drawings and several color cover paintings for the digest magazines; particularly Galaxy. Wood left behind a legacy of great art, much of which has never been reprinted. This book will feature them all. Long time Wally Wood historian Roger Hill has spent the past twenty years pulling together the history of Wood’s involvement with the pulp digests and tracking down original art for this project. Over half of the images have been