#rod brown

[70sscifiart]

I always loved Rod Brown's cover art for the 1979 Maplin catalogue, but I only recently saw the full wraparound art, including the back cover! It's a shame no one's scanned the spine yet - these catalogues were 300 pages long, so I imagine the spine had a good chunk of the full piece.

Anyway, Maplin Electronics did cool sci-fi covers for its catalogues all across the 80s - I just did an issue of my free email newsletter about all of them.

[humanoidhistory]

Rod Brown cover art for Maplin Electronics, 1983.

(70s Sci-Fi Art Newsletter by @70sscifiart)

[mistylacrimosa]

[oldschoolsciencefiction]

Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers (1953-54). This little-remembered sci fi series was set in the year 2153, the same year as the setting for the late second and third seasons of “Star Trek: Enterprise”.

Cliff Robertson (bottom left) played Rod Brown. The actor on the bottom right is Bruce Hall. His IMDb page lists only a handful of acting credits, none of which I recognize. Nonetheless, he looks awfully familiar.

[periodicult]

Rod Brown for i-D magazine, October 1984.