The US based publisher, Hermes Press will be releasing a book featuring the cover art of George Wilson.

Titled ‘The Art of George Wilson‘, the hard cover book is by Anthony Taylor and will contain 288 full color pages measuring 9” x 12”. Pre order advertisements provide us with what’s within the book:

This new art book focuses on over 300 examples of his cover art and features numerous examples of Wilson’s artwork scanned from the originals together with many of the book covers he created including his extensive run on Avon’s The Phantom.

George Wilson produced a large number of painted comic book covers for a variety of comic book characters, across a large number of publishers. He also illustrated a number of Phantom covers for the Gold Key comic book series (all 17 editions), and also the Avon Books series (all 15 editions) in the 1960s and 1970s.

Pre order advertisements provide us with a small description of George Wilsons body of work:

What made many of the great adventure comics of the 1960s so attractive were their fantastic painted covers by artist George Wilson. Wilson’s covers harkened back to the era of pulp magazines and were spectacularly eye-catching. He turned in efforts for literally hundreds of comics titles including: Classics Illustrated, The Twilight Zone, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Dr. Solar, Magnus Robot Fighter, Turok, Son of Stone and Star Trek, to name but a few.

As can be seen above, the Phantom will be featured on the front cover alongside a number of George Wilsons other painted covers. This illustration was produced for the Gold Key series, appearing on the front cover of edition number 1 published in the USA in 1962.

The Art of George Wilson book is due for release in October 2023.

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