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dr_hermes (dr_hermes) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-28 19:49:00

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creator: wally wood, era: silver age

Wally Wood's alien women
The cover by Wally Wood to the SPACEMEN 1965 YEARBOOK. This was a short-lived effort from James Warren to branch out from FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND to other genres. He also tried WILDEST WESTERNS, SCREEN THRILLS ILLUSTRATED and MONSTER WORLD with limited success. Warren actually did best with the black and white horror comics magazines... CREEPY, EERIE, VAMPIRELLA, 1984/1994, THE ROOK. Maybe with more commercial than artistic success, to be sure.

Looking over the alien chicks in this astronaut's swinging bachelor pad (you just KNOW he has modern jazz on his stereo), I'm intrigued by the one on the far left with the horse legs and tail. An interesting take on a centaur? Or a reference to the "Horstel" race in Philip Jose Farmer's DARE? Other aliens here remind me a bit of Marvel characters who came along later, namely Storm and Tigra. Also, although it seems our hero really has it made, do not envy him. The green woman is planning to get him alone, shove her ovipositer down his throat and lay her eggs in his thoracic cavity. So he'd better enjoy the situation while he can.

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rab62
2009-07-29 02:00 am UTC (link)

The likeness of the striped cat girl to Tigra the Were-Woman is far too close to be written off as coincidence. Funnily enough, Wood inked the first appearance of her previous incarnation as costumed hero The Cat...but I don't think he ever drew her in the Tigra identity. Still, even if Wood himself didn't submit this as a design for a new character, we can be reasonably sure whoever did was "inspired" by this cover.

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	a one, two, three, four. nefrekeptah 2009-07-29 02:24 am UTC (link)
	Oh, ALIEN WOMAN! Get away from me! ALIEN WOMAN! Mamma let me be! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: a one, two, three, four. dr_hermes 2009-07-29 02:27 am UTC (link)
	Guess which one is NOT actually a female, and has quite a surprise for our astronaut. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: a one, two, three, four. tacobob 2009-07-29 05:21 am UTC (link)
	And also one that is waiting to lay her eggs in him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: a one, two, three, four. dr_hermes 2009-07-29 05:35 am UTC (link)
	The one who looks like she could be fun to know is reclining casually by his helmet. Little devil horns on a date are a good sign. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-07-29 11:44 am UTC (link)
	The one one the far right at the top could be viewed as a Mantis analogue (That's as in the Marvel martial artist, not the Kirby New God guy). The horsie lady has a sort of successor in Acorna, the unicorn girl from a series of books by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. (Reply to this)

	lieut_kettch 2009-07-29 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	It's SPACE-HEF! And what's a Drow Matron doing in outer space? Maybe she's a Spelljammer or something... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-07-29 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, nice to know someone else immediately thought Drow. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashtoreth 2009-07-31 06:34 am UTC (link)
	Well if you're referencing Farmer, no reason she can't be the female from 'The Lovers'. :) (Reply to this)