Strange Days
Aliens, Adventurers, Devils and Dames
Edited by Arnie and Cathy Fenner
Published by Underwood Books, August 2009.
Softcover, full-color poster book, 32 pages.
Size: 27.8cm x 38cm.
Original price: $17.95.
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'Strange Days Aliens, Adventurers, Devils and Dames' contains 31 pages of art and a one page introduction by Arnie Fenner called '10¢ Wonders'.
Featured artists are Virgil Finlay, Edd Cartier, Margaret Brundage, Hannes Bok, Frank Schoonover, Enoch Bolles, A. Leslie Ross, Rudolph Belarski, Howard Parkhurst,
Harold W. McCauley, George Rozen, Emery Clark, J. Allen St. John, Jerome Rozen, Graves Gladney, Walter Baumhofer, and Rafael Desoto.
'Strange Days Aliens, Adventurers, Devils and Dames' contains the following art by Virgil Finlay.
- Frontcover: cover painting for the July 1942 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.
- Title-page: cover painting for the February 1942 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.
- Page 3: cover painting for the July 1942 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.
- Page 4: cover painting for the May 1943 issue of Super Science Stories.
- Page 5: cover painting for Fantastic Universe Science Fiction.
- Backcover: part of cover painting for Fantastic Universe Science Fiction.
Notes:
The frontcover and page 3 depict the same painting, as do page 5 and the backcover.
Notwithstanding the fact that the art of Virgil Finlay features prominently on the frontcover, title-page and backcover,
the book contains only four reproductions of Virgil Finlay art. In the first edition, the title on page 3 reads 'Juky' in stead of 'July'.