Ink with brush on illustration paper of the military battling an invading alien force, signed by Fuqua at bottom center (toning, pinholes with some small losses, some stains, institutional notations at top margin). Sheet 13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. Provenance: Forrest J. Ackerman (1916-2008), American science fiction editor and publisher; acquired by the present owner directly from Ackerman.

Robert Fuqua is the pseudonym for Joseph Walt Tillotson, who adopted this nom de guerre when he began to publish illustrations in pulp magazines to supplement his income while working at a Chicago advertising agency. From 1938 to 1951 he illustrated eighty covers and back covers for Amazing Stories, and would later contribute black and white interior illustrations under his own name to Other Worlds and Imagination. Accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity dated 8 March 2004 and SIGNED BY FORREST J. ACKERMAN.