Earle Bergey's Time Wizard: Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 1947
Father Time himself peers over a giant hourglass containing two visions of humanity's fate — a gleaming futurescape of rocket ships and spires above, a smoldering apocalyptic Earth below. Earle Bergey's signed gouache masterwork for Henry Kuttner's novel 'The Power and the Glory' distills the postwar anxiety of 1947 into one haunting image: progress and destruction balanced on the cusp of eternity, rendered in vivid orange, teal, and deep shadow.
Bergey packs an entire philosophy of time and consequence into a single striking composition — a wizened sage cradling utopia and apocalypse simultaneously. It's melodramatic in the best possible way, the kind of cover that makes you reach for the magazine before your brain catches up.
“THRILLING WONDER STORIES 15¢ DEC. Earle Bergey The Power and the Glory An Amazing Novel By Henry Kuttner A THRILLING PUBLICATION 15¢”
