Gold Key Comics: the art of George Wilson.

Seeing George Wilson's amazing art for the first issue of 'Space Family Robinson' amongst the 'Gold Key' covers from the previous post on Del Connell, I thought I'ld post some original art by Wilson. Wilson's superbly crafted acrylic paintings often had to be done in a hurry, but they graced many paperbacks and magazine covers beautifully. For Gold Key he painted hundreds of covers for comic book series like 'Turok', 'The Twilight Zone', 'The Phantom', 'The Outer Limits' and many, many more. Sadly, mr. Wilson is no longer with us, he died on December 7, 1999. The original artwork scans are pretty big, if you click on them you get to see more detail!

Below you can see his artwork for Del Connell's 'Space Family Robinson' issue 5 from December 1963, which printed the story 'The Mist of Delusion' with art by Dan Spiegle. Gaylord Dubois took over the writing from issue 8. He created more than 3000 comic stories during his lifetime, mostly with licensed characters, but he also came up with many new and original creations of his own: 'Turok', 'Son of Stone', 'Brothers of the Spear' and 'Jungle Twins'.

Here's the artwork to issue no. 18 from October 1966. It featured the story 'Sleep no more, Sir Thomas' and a chapter of 'Captain Venture' titled 'Trapped', both drawn by Dan Spiegle.

Here's Wilson's artwork for the cover of 'Space Family Robinson' issue 22, published by Western in June 1967. It held the 'Space Family Robinson' story called 'Operation Timeshift' and, as often with this series, another episode of 'Captain Venture' in the back.

Here's the artwork to issue no. 43 from October 1975. It featured the story 'Trapped in Space'. This month, Darkhorse has begun reprinting the complete series of  'Space Family Robinson' and released the first hardcover volume, including George Wilsons covers. The second volume is planned for September. 

Here's another favorite of mine: Traveling through time to fight the Nazi's yet again! Cover art by George Wilson for Time Tunnel #2 from 1967. The comic by Tom Gill was based on the Irwin Allen's TV series from 1966 starring James Darren and Robert Colbert as two scientists that build a secret installation for the government beneath the Nevada desert which allows them to travel through time. While testing they get stuck and every episode they go somewhere else, trying to escape home. Unfortunately, the comic book series only had two issues.