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91 Ferm, Anders
Anders Ferm (Artists)
Sweden
Dutch Tarzan and Korak cover, Swedish student who did
the covers for one Tarzan and one Korak cover








VIRGIL
FINLAY (1914-1971): Virgil Warden Finlay was born July 23, 1914 in Rochester,
NY. His father, Warden Hugh Finlay, was of Irish ancestry, and was a wood-lathe
worker at a furniture shop. His mother, Ruth Finlay, raised their two children,
Virgil and his younger sister Jean. They lived at the grandparent's home
at 1220 Clifford Avenue. In 1935, when Virgil was 18 years old, his father
died at age 40. This tragic event left the family to fend for themselves
during the Great Depression. After high school Virgil Finlay worked as
a house painter and also an assembly-line worker at a radio manufacturer.
He sent unsolicited illustrations to his favorite pulp magazine, Weird
Tales, and he was soon thrilled to recieve his first payments as a published
freelance artist. In 1938 he moved to New York City and studied art at
night classes at the Mechanics Institute, which is a socially conscious
institution created by philanthropists to offer free technical classes
to workers and their families. Finlay found steady work illustrating for
The American Weekly. He also did interior art for pulp magazines such as
Amazing, Fantastic Adventures, Strange Stories, and Captain Future. He
married his high school sweetheart from Rochester, NY, Beverly Stiles,
on November 16, 1938. They moved to 55 Cobalt Lane in Westbury, on Long
Island, where they raised their daughter, Lail. During WWII, Finlay served
in the U.S. Army as a combat engineer on Okinawa. After the war, he resumed
his freelance art career by creating interior illustrations and cover paintings
for Fantastic Novels, Super Science Stories, Thrilling Wonder, and Famous
Fantastic Mysteries. In the 1950s Virgil Finlay worked for digest magazines
like Astrology, Famous Science Fiction, If, and Galaxy. He also experimented
with abstract art, creating large paintings on canvas. In the 1960s he
worked for Magazine of Horror and even some DC comic books. Finaly also
wrote poetry throughout his life, but it has only been published posthumously.
He died of cancer at age 56 on January 18, 1971. ~ © David
Saunders 2009















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