George Wilson (2 August 1921 – 7 December 1998; age 77) was a prolific comic book cover illustrator. He is known for his realistic style using oils and acrylics.
A Richmond Art School and the Pratt Institute graduate and World War II veteran, Wilson worked for Western Publishing, doing the covers for a number of their titles, including over forty issues of "Space Family Robinson", more than thirty issues of Star Trek, and a few covers of The Phantom, and Mighty Samsom. The other company he created numerous comic book covers for was Dell Comics for their Tarzan and Combat releases.
Starting out as commercial illustrator after the war he worked for advertisement agencies and publishers such as Dell Publications, Bombay Boomerang, Jove, Avon, and Harlequin Books. It was at Dell that Wilson found his calling as comic book cover illustrator in 1955.
Artist credits[]
- Gold Key TOS
- #10: "Sceptre of the Sun"
- #11: "The Brain Shockers"
- #12: "The Flight of the Buccaneer"
- #13: "Dark Traveler"
- #14: "The Enterprise Mutiny"
- #15: "Museum at the End of Time"
- #16: "Day of the Inquisitors"
- #17: "The Cosmic Cavemen"
- #18: "The Hijacked Planet"
- #19: "The Haunted Asteroid"
- #20: "A World Gone Mad"
- #21: "The Mummies of Heitius VII"
- #22: "Siege in Superspace"
- #23: "Child's Play"
- #24: "The Trial of Captain Kirk"
- #25: "Dwarf Planet"
- #26: "The Perfect Dream"
- #27: "Ice Journey"
- #28: "The Mimicking Menace"
- #29: "The Planet of No Return" (reprint)
- #31: "The Final Truth"
- #32: "The Animal People"
- #33: "The Choice"
- #34: "The PsychoCrystals"
- #35: "The Peril of Planet Quick Change" (reprint)
- #36: "A Bomb in Time"
- #37: "The Ghost Planet" (reprint)
- #38: "One of Our Captains Is Missing!"
- #39: "Prophet of Peace"
- #40: "Furlough to Fury"
- #41: "The Evictors"
- #42: "World Against Time"
- #43: "World Beneath the Waves"
- #44: "Prince Traitor"
- #46: "Mr. Oracle"
- #47: "This Tree Bears Bitter Fruit"
- #48: "Murder Boards the Enterprise"
- #49: "A Warp in Space"
- #50: "The Planet of No Life"
- #51: "Destination Annihilation"
- #52: "And a Child Shall Lead Them"
- #53: "What Fools These Mortals Be"
- #54: "Sport of Knaves"
- #55: "A World Against Itself"
- #56: "No Time Like the Past"
- #57: "Spore of the Devil"
- #58: "Brain-Damaged Planet"
- #59: "To Err Is Vulcan"