Wally Wood

1927 ~ 1981

Galaxy Science Fiction

From 1957 thru 1969 Wood contributed over 170 interior

illustrations and 6 covers to Galaxy! Here are the covers

and a bunch of illos from 1957-59! This is the art that

Wood was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959 & 1960...

he lost out to Kelly Freas and Ed Emshwiller. Many of

the illos Wood did for Galaxy are double page spreads

and are impossible to scan unless you dismantle the magazine

as the art goes deep into the gutter...this is was I was able to get

without destroying the magazines!

The Wally Wood Art Table

A short story...a couple of years ago good friend and long time

collector of Wally Wood art Roger Hill was coming out for one

of his periodic visits, once here he told me had tracked down

Wally Wood's art table and he hoped to purchase it and just

happened to be in the town I reside in here in Connecticut!

Once hearing the address I knew exactly where it was as when

I was in high school , those many years ago, a good friend lived

on this road! The next day he called up the fellow that owned

the table and we made arrangements to go up to take a look! It

just happened to be Wood's former assistant Paul Kirchner that

had it! Wood had given the table to Kirchner in 1980 when Wood

moved from Westville, Ct to Baldwinsville, NY and had decided he

wouldn't be taking the table with him! We had a nice visit with

Paul, and Roger ended up buying the table! It was a heck-of-a thing

to package up for shipment out to Wichita! Here's a couple of

photos of Roger sitting at the table and Paul standing by it! The

really weird thing is that the house Paul lives in is the house

my friend had lived in back in the 60's and I hadn't set foot in

it for over 35 years...it really is a small world! Oh yeah, that

art sitting on the table is the original Wood cover to

Weird Science #9 that Roger had brought out for show and tell!