In Which A Great Mystery Is Solved by Frank Frazetta

Okay, I know I say this a lot, but never before with such a big grin on my face: Noth'n is new here except for the first image!  It's the original painting for The Moon Men!  After more than fifty years!  For milliennium (okay, for about a decade) and over a bazillion posts (okay, about a dozen), you've got to hear myself and others grouse about this "missing" painting.  None of the coffee table books mentioned it or said, "here it is," or anything.  It wasn't repainted like Buccaneer.  It wasn't stolen like Conan of Aquilonia.  Turns out that original is noted as being purchased in Sept 1974, a year or less after it was published (no publication date in the first Ace editions with this cover, but a Kent cig ad in the middle of onea my copies says 1973), and about a year before the first Frazetta coffee table book (Betty Ballantine was a super-genius). viola, now it all makes sense