#Alan Craddock

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Dueling a dragon -- Alan Craddock's cover art on White Dwarf 44, August 1983, was previously used on a 1982 Methuen edition of CJ Cherryh's Fires of Azeroth. This issue's credits incorrectly list Jim Burns as cover artist, omitting Craddock's name.

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Panel from Wurtham View written by Dave Huxley, drawn by Angus McKie and coloured by Alan Craddock (1982)

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Alan Craddock

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Alan Craddock

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Alan Craddock

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Alan Craddock's original artwork for the 1988 home computer game Soldier of Light, and the pack-in poster.

The game was a port of the original arcade game Xain'd Sleena released by Technos into Japan arcades in September 1986. In 1987, the arcade game was exported to the US as Solar-Warrior and the UK as Soldier of Light.

It was ported to the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Amiga, and Atari ST.

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A look back at the Radio Times Doctor Who strip

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ISFDB only gives those two other uses of that cover:

(Being French, I was familiar with the Paul Béra one)

On the Recycling of Cover Artwork

So we were discussing this image...

I mentioned in that post that I'd previously seen an image of a book by Andy Offutt that also sported this cover art. I hate not being able to cite things, so I headed over to Google Images to see if I could find it.

And I couldn't. But what I did discover—once I'd taken another run at the problem by cropping the lettering off the art and resubmitting the search—was that the image also appeared as cover art for a Canadian-based thrash metal band called Exciter, on a 1985 album called "Long Live The Loud."

(It also appears in a Pinterest collection of Real Dumb Album Covers, but that strikes me as unnecessarily judgmental.)

At any rate, examining that album's Discogs page a little more thoroughly, I found to my delight that they've got an artist credit there! And on finding it, I headed straight off to check my copy of the Methuen paperback for any possible confirmation... and sure enough, there it was (though in a place I somehow previously missed checking: the back of the book) So now I've finally been able to amend Fire's page at DianeDuane.com to add a credit.

The artist turns out to be Alan Craddock, who's gone on over the years since the above painting to do a whole lot of cover work on all kinds of British SF. He's now a much-respected colorist on 2000AD and elsewhere in the comics world—for both Marvel and DC, as well as various other comics, including some of @neil-gaiman's mid-90s projects for Tekno Comics). The above work would've been one of his very earliest ones, done while he was just starting to settle into his craft. (While in the meantime doing what a cover artist must do: whatever the art director tells him. So I willingly forgive him the metal booty shorts and spear-spiked heads and so forth.) :)

Anyway, there's a mystery unexpectedly solved! And happily, too.

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Orc air cav (Alan Craddock, Warlock 4, 1985)

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Alan Craddock

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Alan Craddock

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Alan Craddock's art on the UK release of Wizard was also seen on the cover of Warlock magazine 1

UK 1985

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JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #10

THE HUNTRESS, HUNTED! Ruby's search for her father continues, and she'll stop at nothing to find him, even if it means killing the Huntress and destroying the Justice Society of America!

Writer: Geoff Johns

Artists: Mikel Janin and Marco Santucci

Colors: Jordie Bellaire, Ivan Plascencia, and John Kalisz

Letters: Rob Leigh

Cover A: Mikel Janin

Available at your local comic shop and online today!

Variant covers:

Cover B: Tony Harris (card stock)

Cover C: Paris Alleyne (1:25 card stock)

The preview for this issue is below the cut: