Nifty Presents - Wally Wood's Galaxy!


There's just something so appealing about the sleek smooth lines of a typical Wally Wood drawing and his style was just ideal for science fiction. So it's a no-brainer really that he'd find some time to work for some of the myriad sci-fi digests which once upon a time were common on the newsstands.



The one Wood made his mark in was Galaxy, a digest started in 1950 and focused on the softer side of sci-fi, the psychological and sociological transformations wrought by thinking about the present day and the possible futures. Galaxy always felt a little adult, a bit more sophisticated to me than the others, a cooler  hipper big brother of sorts.


This book showcases some beautiful Wood art, stuff which is not normally gathered in the copious Wood collections. Glad to have it.

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  1. JohnJanuary 27, 2020 at 8:34 AM

    Like virtually everything else Wally Wood produced, his work on Galaxy was superlative -- A Former Member of "The Friends of Odkin"

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    1. Rip JaggerJanuary 28, 2020 at 5:03 AM

      I've got some more good Wood coming, his more sexy stuff. It's weird how is polished style made the most crude images shine.

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  2. RussJanuary 27, 2020 at 2:24 PM

    Woody turned that cover into a game of strip poker for his Weird Sex Fantasy portfolio. Or so I've heard.

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    1. Rip JaggerJanuary 28, 2020 at 5:04 AM

      Maybe it's part of the collection I have on the way. I'll let you know.

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