Jan 22, 2015 - Sale 2372

Sale 2372 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 2,340
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,200
HANNES BOK.
Illustration for "Tempus Fugitives!" Litho pencil and ink. 190x190 mm; 7 1/2x7 1/2. Signed and dated [19]49 upper left corner. The notations in the margins indicated that this was an illustration supplied but possibly never used for a Super Science Stories piece "Tempus Fugitives!" by Robert Arthur, published by Fictioneers Inc./Popular Publications, Toronto, 1949.

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Bok was a regular illustrator for the Science Fiction / Fantasy comic books Super Science and Weird Tales, among other popular pulps of the period. He designed the iconic cover for Robert E. Howard's first collection of stories, "Skull Face and Others" Arkham House, 1946.