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Virgil Finlay (1914-1971) From the Beginning by Eando Binder - Weird Tales (Jun 1938) Source
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Virgil Finlay (1914-1971) From the Beginning by Eando Binder - Weird Tales (Jun 1938) Source
Fantastic Adventures (vol. 3) #3 (May, 1941).
The shadow dragon on the cover resembles a Chinese dragon exactly as it's described in the story. However, author Eando Binder (the pseudonym used by brothers Earl AND Otto Binder) assures us later that it's really a dinosaur akin to a Tyrannosaurus rex.
"I, Robot" was a short story by Eando Binder (Earl and Otto Binder) about a robot named Adam Link who was constructed by Dr. Charles Link. The story was published in Amazing Stories, January 1939. Several sequel stories featuring Adam Link would follow.
Over a decade later, Isaac Asimov's famous collection of robot tales would be published under the title "I, Robot". This was over the objections of Asimov who had read the Binders' story before starting his own robot short story "Robbie".
Adam Link would show up in two episodes of the sci fi anthology series The Outer Limits and again in the 1990s revival of the show. The illustration is from the January-February 1955 issue of EC Comics' Weird Science-Fantasy, adapted by Al Feldstein and illustrated by Joe Orlando. Two more Adam Link tales would be featured in subsequent issues of the comic in that same year.
June 1938. Aside from its Margaret Brundage cover painting and the Seabury Quinn story advertised on the cover, this issue of WEIRD TALES features, in no particular order: the short story "Slave of the Flames" by Robert Bloch; the first installment of "The Black Drama" by Manly Wade Wellman (under the pseudonym Gans T. Field); "From the Beginning" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder, a pseudonym he shared with his brother); "Song of Death" by A.W. Calder; "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" by H.P. Lovecraft; "The Gray Champion" by Nathaniel Hawthorne; "Death Dallies Awhile" by Leslie F. Stone; the second installment of "Thunder in the Dawn" by Henry Kuttner; a Robert E. Howard poem; and various interior illustrations by Virgil Finlay.
Eando Binder
Vintage Pulp - Startling Stories (Jan1939) (Standard)
Art by Charles Moll.
Fun fact: Eando Binder was the pen name of the Binder brothers Earl and Otto, and a compression of the phrase “E and O.”