Here Are The Tough Guys — And Their Women — Driven By The Savage Hungers Of Crime
An unusual instance of an artist doing to different paintings for the front and back covers.
The primitive roots of the Eternal Woman — her mystery, her magic, her mastery over men
“I had to be careful doing Thuvia herself, as everyone on Barsoom goes nude, and yet full-frontal nudity was unacceptable for the cover. By turning her away from the viewer, I thought I had this problem solved, but Lester Del Rey had me add the G-string. The rest of the painting is in acrylics, but I did that G-string in gouache in case I ever get the urge to wipe it off.”
Joe Jusko would later do something similar with his cover painting of Dejah Thoris
This cover was later replaced with a different one by the same artist, Robert Abbett