GALLERY OF FRANK R. PAUL's SCIENCE FICTION ARTWORK
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Cover art by Frank R. Paul for May 1932 Wonder Stories.
Summary of the story from Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, by Everett F. Bleiler with Richard J. Bleiler, Kent. St. Univ. Press, 1998, p. 135:
The quest: Grey and Parks are trying to find and rescue the prospector/explorer Joywater, who alone knows the location of an enormous unclaimed deposit of radium somewhere on the Moon. * The opposition: A secret cult (the worshippers of Mu Lo) [composed] of wicked Orientals and Occidentals has captured Joywater and will torture him to obtain the location of the radium deposit. This opposition includes the Queen, an exotic dancer who sings erotic songs. * Detail: The cult of the Mu Lo is based upon an eighty-foot idol of gold left by a now-extinct Lunar race of gigantic insects. The idol is operative and kills its victims. * Further complications: Small, degenerate Lunar insects are a menace. * Another complication: Perhaps parks is not all that he seems? Perhaps he is really a traitor? * No, he is not a traitor; he is an archaeologist. He has wormed his way into the cult in order to find archaeological material. * All ends to the wishes of Grey, Park, and Joywater. * The writing and the detail are competent, but the story is jumbled and confusing.
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