FANTASY ART SHOW NO. 2

Here's the second (and last?) issue of ART SHOW published by B. Singer in January-February 1978. Included is a  super cover by Jeff Jones, underground comics and film reviews, an article "So! You're Going to a Comics Convention", a profile of Phil Trumbo who went on to a professional career in animation, comics and films and won an Emmy Award. Lots of material shows what the scene was like back in the day. Also of note is a collection by John Linton illustrating WEIRD TALES author Joseph Payne Brennan's "The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing". And check out the illustration for the ad for the Boris Vallejo magazine -- looks very similar to Auraleon or Torrents' work for Warren. He certainly grew into his own, distinct style.

A HORROR WHICH KNEW NOT FEAR!

Even master illustrator Virgil Finlay couldn't quite capture the terrifying black blob that oozed it way through Joseph Payne Brennan's "Slime", first published in WEIRD TALES (March, 1953). Since then it has been a favorite to include in many horror anthologies, including the collection I just read again for about the fourth time from from Berkeley (1980) entitled, "The Shapes of Midnight".