[PAUL, Frank Rudolph (1884-1963)]. Original painting for Amazing Forries by an unknown artist based on an earlier illustration by Frank R. Paul. 1975.

Original pen and gouache on board (toning, some soiling). Visible area: 23 x 17.5" in. Matted and framed (not examined out of frame, overall dimensions 32 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.). Provenance: Forrest J. Ackerman (1916-2008), American editor, magazine publisher, and science fiction author; acquired by the present owner directly from Ackerman.

To celebrate his own 60th birthday, Forrest J. Ackerman, in collaboration with friends Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, and others issued a one-off autobiographical tribute entitled Amazing Forries: This is Your Life. The cover art is a recreation by an unknown artist of a Frank R. Paul work which appeared on the October 1926 cover of Amazing Stories, only with Ackerman himself painted into the artwork. Accompanied by a copy of Amazing Forries.