A babe, a beast and Edgar Rice Burroughs bring six-figure result for Frazetta painting at US auction

Frank Frazetta’s painting Escape on Venus does not feature any of the pirates, zombies or ugly communists that appear in the story it accompanies. Still, the picture easily attracted enough attention to make it the top lot at a recent Heritage Auctions sale.

The 1972 painting was used as the cover image for a 1974 re-issue of a novel with the same name by U…

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