tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post5234415098380499634..comments2024-03-28T16:39:46.847-04:00Comments on Tellers of Weird Tales: C. Hall Thompson (1923-1991)Terence E. Hanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-82767705550045520132019-01-22T17:28:28.834-05:002019-01-22T17:28:28.834-05:00The pulp magazines did not pay enough for their il...The pulp magazines did not pay enough for their illustrators to afford models (I am sure this is true for magazine and paperback covers as well). So, the artist had to make do with whatever sources were available for free. Photo magazines were a good source; you can see recognizable images of Clark Gable and Raymond Massey peaking out from the pages of <i>Doc Savage</i> and <i>Weird tales</i>. An artist friend of mine used to make a hobby of collecting photo magazines that Virgil Finlay has used a source material. Those days seem to have been less concerned about intellectual property rights than our own.<br />Your thinking about the "Thurston" image having a common source seems a good one to me, but there is certainly a chance that the others are copying his work. The Fiction House line of pulps seems to have made quite a practice of that; I have seen a <i>Planet Stories</i> cover reworked for a Western magazine(!) and another reworked for a (stf) comic book. (All pulbilshed by Fiction House.)Carrington Dixonnoreply@blogger.com