# Anybody know this cover artist..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901 "2016-01-22T20:33:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/1 "2016-01-22T20:33:24Z")
1950’s Martian Chronicles cover. > **[bantam cover martian chronicles 1950 - Bing](http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bantam%2Bcover%2Bmartian%2Bchronicles%2B1950&view=detailv2&&id=4422B7317CA)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/2 "2016-01-22T20:59:24Z")
Did a reverse Google image search and came up with this guy: [Dean Ellis](http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ellis_dean). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/3 "2016-01-22T20:59:51Z")
[Dean Ellis](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1518647) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/4 "2016-01-22T23:30:48Z")
Ellis did this one. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1518647](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1518647) And all the credits on his page showed 60’s and 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/5 "2016-01-23T04:56:13Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Ellis did this one. > > [Title: The Martian Chronicles](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1518647) > > And all the credits on his page showed 60’s and 70’s. That cover certainly looks very 70s. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/6 "2016-01-23T04:58:15Z")
“Reverse Google image search” – what’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/7 "2016-01-23T05:48:26Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > “Reverse Google image search” – what’s that? Google it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/8 "2016-01-23T16:53:52Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > “Reverse Google image search” – what’s that? > **[Google Images](https://images.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl)** > > Google Images. The most comprehensive image search on the web. Click the camera icon in the search box and it will bring up an additional box where you can input a specific image. It will then search for images similar to what you put there. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/9 "2016-01-23T17:54:04Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Google Images](https://images.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl) > > Click the camera icon in the search box and it will bring up an additional box where you can input a specific image. It will then search for images similar to what you put there. Is that the same thing as right click “search Google for image”? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/10 "2016-01-23T18:39:02Z")
Tried that, of course. Since it was a “Martian Chronicles” cover, Google brought up other covers of that work, hence the (mis)identification of Ellis. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/11 "2016-01-23T23:05:09Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Is that the same thing as right click “search Google for image”? Yes. > [@E-DUB](#): > > Tried that, of course. Since it was a “Martian Chronicles” cover, Google brought up other covers of that work, hence the (mis)identification of Ellis. The cover linked in the OP is not from the Fifties; [Here is a 1950s Bantam cover](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7c/8f/c7/7c8fc7a1d3a02ea09fa4d8ec901414c3.jpg). According to [this](http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9145641319&searchurl=pics%3Don%26sortby%3D19%26tn%3Dmartian%2520chronicles%26kn%3Dray%2520bradbury%26an%3Dray%2520bradbury), the cover in the OP is a Seventeenth Edition from 1967. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/12 "2016-01-23T23:37:56Z")
When I click on my link, I get the same cover you posted as the 50’s one, Skywalker. And that IS the one I’m inquiring about. Do others get the planet one? To make it clear, I’m asking about the one with the person on it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/13 "2016-01-23T23:56:17Z")
Apparently everyone but you is getting the Dean Ellis cover. The cover you intended to link has no attributed artist. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/14 "2016-01-24T15:31:35Z")
Well, that _is_ bizarre. I tested this by going in and clicking my link in IE (OP was done in Firefox), got the “man with raygun” pic just as I should have. ---
**Author:** ![Arizona\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Arizona\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arizona_Mike)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/15 "2016-01-25T15:40:38Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Yes. > > The cover linked in the OP is not from the Fifties; [Here is a 1950s Bantam cover](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7c/8f/c7/7c8fc7a1d3a02ea09fa4d8ec901414c3.jpg). According to [this](http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9145641319&searchurl=pics%3Don%26sortby%3D19%26tn%3Dmartian%2520chronicles%26kn%3Dray%2520bradbury%26an%3Dray%2520bradbury), the cover in the OP is a Seventeenth Edition from 1967. It’s actually even a later edition, as it added the promotion for the NBC miniseries adaptation in the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-this-cover-artist/743901/16 "2016-01-25T15:43:13Z")
AZ Mike: You’re not by any chance an SF writer yourself, are you?