In the early 1950s , illustrator Edd Cartier provided a clutch of uncanny , colorful drawings to accompany the school text in an anthology call Visitors of Space . And somehow he managed to give rise a set of extraterrestrial being who look so much like private parts that I did a dual take . I ’m not sure if his penis - headed and vadge - mouthed organism were intend to look quite so . . . au naturel . But if they were n’t , Cartier has a mass of explaining to do . specially when it come to that green phalloscrotoballoon on the left there .
Cartier was a wide - publish pulp magazine magazine artist , whose work come out in everything from The Shadow to Astounding Science Fiction . His employment here is a kind of bizarre crossing between Dr. Seuss and H.P. Lovecraft . He work steady throughout most of the twentieth century , and died in 2008 at the years of 94 .
See more of Cartier ’s imagesat Golden Age Comic Books
Here ’s the 1951 book that all these images come in from . I love the fashion the transcription of the stranger on the cover make do to make them look even more like unearthly genitals than they do by themselves .
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