Fantastic Adventures Nov 1941 – ERB's Living Dead Tiger-Beast Attack Cover
More viscerally feral than typical Fantastic Adventures covers of the period, this painting channels the savage creature-feature energy of Edgar Rice Burroughs' lost-world fiction. A massive tiger-striped beast with insectoid claws savages a brown creature in the foreground, while a scantily-clad woman flees in horror through lush violet-green jungle behind. The creature design hybridizes big cat anatomy with crustacean limbs — a distinctly Burroughs-ian alien predator rendered in bold gouache strokes with dramatic chiaroscuro.
A snarling tiger-insect hybrid tearing apart prey while a woman bolts through purple jungle is pure newsstand bait — visceral, colorful, and screaming danger. The Edgar Rice Burroughs byline seals the deal for any pulp reader of the era.
“EIGHT WHO CAME BACK By NAT SCHACHNER fantastic ADVENTURES NOVEMBER 20c The Living Dead By Edgar Rice Burroughs”
