{"id":915,"date":"2010-09-30T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2010-09-30T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:48:54","slug":"1950s-space-travel-illustrations-by-virgil-finlay-at-golden-age-comic-book-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/30\/1950s-space-travel-illustrations-by-virgil-finlay-at-golden-age-comic-book-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"1950s Space Travel Illustrations by Virgil Finlay&#8230; at Golden Age Comic Book Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/virgil-finlay-complete-book-of-space.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/virgil_finlay_space_travel.jpg\" alt=\"Virgil Finlay's Illustrations for the Complete Book of Space Travel\" width=\"295\" height=\"419\" border=\"0\" style=\"float:left;margin-left:-12px;margin-right:9px;\"><\/a>Over at Golden Age Comic Book Stories there&#8217;s a terrific collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/virgil-finlay-complete-book-of-space.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virgil Finlay illustrations for <em>The Complete Book of Space Travel<\/em> <\/a>by Albro Gaul (1956).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Yes, it might have been a little premature to call it &quot;Complete&quot; &#8211; it would <em>still<\/em> be premature to call it that, after all &#8211; but nonetheless it&#8217;s a great opportunity for Finlay to explore everything from cross sections of space ships, construction, astronomy, space stations, and even the occasional dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I never fail to marvel at that guy&#8217;s inks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Speaking of ink, today&#8217;s offerings at the site also include some <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/frank-frazetta-midwood-illustrations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">early 1960&#8217;s Frazetta illustrations<\/a> and a great batch of <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/j-allen-st-john-1872-1957-tarzan-and.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edgar Rice Burroughs illustrations by J. Allen St. John<\/a>. That Mister Doortree. He just can&#8217;t be stopped!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Golden Age Comic Book Stories there&#8217;s a terrific collection of Virgil Finlay illustrations for The Complete Book of Space Travel by Albro Gaul (1956).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}