Perry Rhodan #843

Cover for Perry Rhodan #843, 12 x 18", published in 1977, done in Gouache, an opaque watercolor. German science fiction artist Johnny Bruck (1921-1995) was one of the most prolific illustrators in the history of science fiction. He painted over 6,000 covers during his 40-year career, as well as inking black & white interior illustrations. Most of his work appeared in the long-running German magazine Perry Rhodan and its sister publication Atlan. He died in a motorcycle crash in 1995. Fellow CAF member Markus Rohrwild stirred interest in Bruck when he began posting the artist’s work to his page and offering some of the thousands of paintings he purchased from the late widow. Although published in the mid-seventies, this piece is typical of the flamboyant visions splashed across the covers of American digest SF digest magazines and Ace Double paperbacks two decades earlier.