This is a rare opportunity to own the original "paste-up" sheet for the title page of Roger Lovin's short story "Waiting at the Speed of Light" with original art by Jack Gaughan, appearing in Cosmos Science Fiction Magazine issue for July 1977 (Vol 1, #2) Back in the day, that was how magazines were printed: scans were made of identical sized sheets of heavy paper 13.5" x 19" (a size calculated to yield - after printing - double page sheets to trim and bind into a magazine of 11" x 8.5" size) to which the text and art was "pasted" (glued) down. Here, we have a two page spread artwork by Gaughan, with his signature in initials "JG" botttom left in the image, done in black/white acrylic on paper, with title and text mounted to the full sheet, covered by tracing paper containing printer's instructions, which I have left in place but can easily be removed (see photos). Gaughan was the Art Director for the magazine and contributed many images to the issues, both full page (as here) and paste-up spot drawings - see table of contents . This is a unique piece of science fiction literary history, from a publication period never to be seen again, and rarely seen or available for sale.
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SKU: 4056
$475.00Price
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