Magazine cover art by Sci-Fi artist Frank R. Paul

Thanks to a recent post by Steve Davidson of the blog The Crotchety Old Fan, I was able to browse an awesome gallery of early science fiction magazine cover art by legendary Sci-Fi artist Frank R. Paul, who will be inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in Seattle later this year. The gallery, maintained by Hugo Award-winning SF&F artist Frank Wu, includes several covers about Mars and Martians, such as:

• A scene from H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898), depicted on the cover of the August 1927 issue of Amazing Stories

• A scene from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel The Master Mind of Mars (1928), depicted on the cover of the 1927 annual issue of Amazing Stories

• A Martian, depicted on the cover of the September 1965 issue of Fantastic Stories

• A scene from Stanley D. Bell’s story “Martian Guns” (1932), depicted on the cover of the January 1932 issue of Wonder Stories (Pictured above)