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CHECKLIST PART IV: BACK COVERS
PART I: List of Cover Art: Amazing Stories;
PART II: List of Cover Art (cont.): Air/Science Wonder Stories;
PART III: List of Cover Art (cont.): other magazines (Dynamic, Fantastic Novels, Fantastic Stories, Future Fiction, Gernsback Awards, Planet Stories, Science and Mechanics, Science Fiction, Science-Fiction +, etc.);
PART IV: List of Back Cover Art;
PART V: Interior Art and Essays/Articles.
Corrections? Additions? Bigger and better images? Please email me at Qarlo999@hotmail.com.
artwork (c) Frank R. Paul estate
Amazing Stories,
May 1939 (The End of the World) 
June 1939 (Future Space Suit) 
July 1940
(As Mars Sees Us)
August
1940 (Life on Callisto) 
September 1940 (Life on
Europa) 
October 1940 (Life on Ganymede) 
November 1940 (Life on Titan) 
December 1940 (City on Mars) 
January 1941 (City on
Venus) 
February 1941 (City on Jupiter)
March 1941
(City on Neptune)
April 1941 (A City on Uranus)
May 1941 (Martian Spaceships Invade N. Y.) 
June 1941 (City on Pluto) 
July 1941 (Crystallis, Glass City on Io) 
September
1941
October 1941 (City
Inside the Moon) 
January 1942 (City on Europa) 
February 1942 (Magnetic City on
Ganymede) 
March 1942 (As Mars Sees Us) 
April 1942
(City of the Future)
Feb. 1943 (Stories of the Stars: Canis Major) 
April 1943 (Stories of the Stars: Lyra)
May 1943 (Stories of the Stars: Procton)
June 1943 (Stories of the Stars: Great Nebula) 
August 1943 (Stories of the Stars: Rigel)
September 1944 (Stories of the Stars) 
March 1945 (Stories of the Stars: Spica)
July 1946 (The Colossus of Rhodes) 
August 1946 (Stories of the Stars: Altair) 
Fantastic Adventures
May 1939 (The Man from Mars) 
July 1939 (The Man from Venus) 
September 1939 (Life on Mercury) 
Nov. 1939
(Life on Saturn)
Jan. 1940 (Life on Jupiter) 
Feb. 1940 (Life on Pluto)
The original painting was sold at auction for $15,412 at Askart.com
March 1940 (Life on Neptune)
April
1940 (Life on Uranus)
May 1940 (Life on Io)
Sept. 1942 (Atlas - believed to be by Paul)
Oct. 1942 (Perseus, Slayer of Medusa) 
Nov. 1942 (Prometheus)
Dec. 1942 (Apollo) 
Jan. 1943 (Mercury - believed to be by Paul)
Feb. 1943 (Icarus and Daedalus, First Aviators) 
March 1943 (Phaeton, Son of Apollo) 
Oct. 1943 (Sphinx - believed to be by Paul)
April 1944 (Jason) 
June 1944 (Bellerophon and the Chimera) 
July 1945 (Stories of the Stars: Gemini)
Oct. 1945 (Stories of the Stars: Andromeda) 
Dec. 1945 (Stories of the Stars: Aldebaran) 
Feb. 1946
(Stories of the Stars: Alphecca)
May 1946 (Stories of the Stars: Mizar) 
July 1946
(Stories of the Stars: Antares)
Ashley (vol.2, p. 295) credits Paul with 55 back covers for Amazing and Fantastic in the 1939-1946 timeframe. This appears to be an underestimate. Note, however, that some of the items on the list above are suspected but not confirmed to be by Paul; if you have confirmation (e.g., a good copy of the magazine with Paul's signature visible), please email me.
Science Fiction Classics
No. 1, 1967: Reprint of Paul's interior illo for "The Skylark of Space" from Amazing 1928
Science-Fiction Plus
The Spirit of Science Fiction, March 1953 (FRP and Tina)
Science-Fiction Views the Cosmos, April 1953 (FRP and Tina)
Time is the
Fourth Dimension, May 1953
Science-Fiction Explores the Future, June 1953 (FRP and Tina)
(reproduced in the auction catalog for The Sam Moskowitz Collection of
Science Fiction, Sotheby's, New York, p. 29; commentary, p. 31)
End of the
Moon, August, 1953 
The Elements of Science-Fiction,
Oct. 1953 
Extra-Terrestrial Communication, Dec. 1953 
This list of back cover art is believed to be complete. However, if you know of additions or corrections, or if you can verify one way or another if any of the images believed to be by Paul actually are or are not by him, please do not hesitate to email me.
artwork (c) Frank R. Paul estate
FRANK R. PAUL BIBLIOGRAPHY
PART I: List of Cover Art: Amazing Stories;
PART II: List of Cover Art (cont.): Air/Science Wonder Stories;
PART III: List of Cover Art (cont.): other magazines (Dynamic, Fantastic Novels, Fantastic Stories, Future Fiction, Gernsback Awards, Planet Stories, Science and Mechanics, Science Fiction, Science-Fiction +, etc.);
PART IV: List of Back Cover Art;
PART V: Interior Art and Essays/Articles.
Corrections? Additions? Please email me at Qarlo999@hotmail.com.
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