Pellucidar Covers by David B. Mattingly
In 1990, David B. Mattingly was commissioned by Del Rey/Ballantine Books to paint the covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar series. Mattingly delivered some very nice pieces that were unfortunately paired with some pretty overbearing typography. The age of coverlines had finally taken over.
Collected below are the six covers. Book 4 in the Pellucidar series is Tarzan at the Earth’s Core, which is printed as part of the Tarzan series.
At the Earth’s Core
Pellucidar
Tanar of Pellucidar
Back to the Stone Age
Land of Terror
Savage Pellucidar
Although definitely not done by Mattingly, OCD-prone readers who’d rather class the “missing” fourth book as part of the “Pellucidar” series instead of/in parallel with the “Tarzan” one might find this matching cover I stumbled upon entirely accidentally rather interesting:
Yes, that’s Neal Adams’ art from Tarzan at the Earth’s Core. Nice mash-up. Thanks for sharing.