The War of the Worlds, Airmont Classics Series, 1964.
As I mentioned earlier in The Rap Sheet, today brings the 80th anniversary of Orson Welles’ notorious radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, based on H.G. Wells’ 1898 science-fiction novel of the same name. To supplement that post, I am embedding here a selection of covers from various editions of Wells’ yarn. Where I have a publication date or artist’s name, I’ve included it.
From Pocket Books, 1953.
From Pan Books, 1970; art by George Underwood.
From Whitman Publishing, 1964; art by Shannon Stirnweis.
From Berkley Highland Books, 1969.
Classics Illustrated, 1955; art by Lou Cameron.
The War of the Worlds comes to the United States: The Cosmopolitan, April 1897.
READ MORE: “Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa” (Open Culture); “The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells,” by Andrew Cartmel (Narrative Drive).
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