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Wallace Wood

Wood, Wallace Allan

June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981 (aged 54)

Birth place: Menahga, Minnesota, USA

15 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
April 1951 |43 Short Fiction The Flying Saucers Out of This World Adventures, April 1951
July 1954 35 Interior Art Color Blind Planet Stories, Summer 1954
May 1955 113|113.1 Review The Mad Reader Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1955
October 1957 Cover Art Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1957 Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1957
December 1957 Cover Art Galaxy Science Fiction, No. 57 Galaxy Science Fiction, No. 57
May 1958 104 Interior Art The Iron Chancellor Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1958
May 1958 115 Interior Art The Iron Chancellor [2] Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1958
May 1958 122 Interior Art The Iron Chancellor [3] Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1958
May 1959 7 Interior Art There's No Place Like Space Science Fiction Stories, May 1959
May 1959 11 Interior Art There's No Place Like Space [2] Science Fiction Stories, May 1959
2014 122 Interior Art Came The Dawn! The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2014
2014 123 Interior Art Came The Dawn! [2] The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2014
2014 136|136.1 Interior Art Mad, September 1956 (cover) The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2014
2018 172 Interior Art The Creature Inside Black Infinity, Fall 2018
2018 214|214.3 Interior Art Undersea City (cover) The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2018

2 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1954 Anthology The Mad Reader Harvey Kurtzman & Jack Davis & Bill Elder & Wallace Wood
1974 Chapbook The World of the Wizard King Wallace Wood

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Art Book Home to Stay Finalist

Illustrator Wallace Wood is best known as a comic book artist. His work was first published around 1950. His art for EC Comics' science fiction titles in the 1950's is still revered by comics fans. He worked on and off for many publishers over the course of his career, often writing as well as drawing stories. His 1960's work on Daredevil (Marvel Comics) and Thunder Agents (Tower Comics) is also well-known and highly regarded. He was a pioneer in self-publishing in the 1960's with the pro-zine Witzend and other special projects. In 1953-54, he did some illustrations for the science fiction pulp magazine Planet Stories. From 1957 to 1967, he did a few cover paintings and many story illustrations for Galaxy and its companion magazines, If and Worlds of Tomorrow. He also did cover paintings for four paperbacks published in the Galaxy Novels series in 1958.
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Year Publication Title
July 1954 Planet Stories, Summer 1954 Color Blind
November 1954 The Mad Reader The Mad Reader
May 1958 Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1958 The Iron Chancellor
May 1958 Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1958 The Iron Chancellor [2]
May 1958 Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1958 The Iron Chancellor [3]
May 1959 Science Fiction Stories, May 1959 There's No Place Like Space
May 1959 Science Fiction Stories, May 1959 There's No Place Like Space [2]
1969 Captain George's Comic World #18 Captain George's Comic World #18 [11]
1969 Trumpet #10, 1969 Trumpet #10
1973 Perigee, #1 Perigee, #1
1974 The World of the Wizard King The World of the Wizard King
1977 Ophemera Cannon
October 1978 SF Perry Rhodan Sonderheft, Nr. 4 Comic: Flash Gordon und die Weltraumpiraten
1980 Dragonfields, #3 Summer 1980 Dragonfields #3
January 2000 The Wally Wood Sketchbook The Wally Wood Sketchbook
April 2005 Sword & Fantasy, #2 April 2005 Sword & Sorcery in the Warren Magazines
April 2005 Sword & Fantasy, #2 April 2005 Sword & Sorcery in the Warren Magazines [2]
October 2006 Wally's World: The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Wally Wood, the World's Second-Best Comic Book Artist Wally's World: The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Wally Wood, the World's Second-Best Comic Book Artist
April 2007 Windy City Pulp Stories #7 Windy City Pulp Stories #7
February 2013 The Frazetta Sketchbook Came the Dawn comic strips
February 2013 The Frazetta Sketchbook Wallace Wood Sketchbook II cover art
2014 The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2014 Came The Dawn!
2014 The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2014 Came The Dawn! [2]
2014 The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2014 Mad, September 1956 (cover)
2016 The Sensuous Frazetta Cover for 'Thunder Agents #1'
2018 Black Infinity, Fall 2018 The Creature Inside
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Cartoon: "JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!"
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Cartoon: "ME-262!"
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Cartoon: "SALLY FORTH"
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Cartoon: "THE MUMMY"
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Cartoon: no caption
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Prize Captive
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Spacemen, 1965 Yearbook (cover)
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu, 1951 (cover)
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Wally Wood: Disciplined Madness
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Wally Wood: Disciplined Madness [2]
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Wally Wood: Disciplined Madness [3]
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Wally Wood: Disciplined Madness [4]
2019 Fantastic Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible Volume Two Weird Science-Fantasy, January-February 1955 (cover)
November 2019 The Good Seed The Good Seed