7 January 1913: birth of Francis De Wolff, who played Vasor in The Keys of Marinus (1964) and Agamemnon in The Myth Makers (1965).
7 January 1924: birth of Geoffrey Bayldon, who played Organon in The Creature from the Pit (1979) and the alternate timeline Doctor-who-never-left-Gallifrey in Big Finish audios Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005). Also Catweazle.
ii) broadcast anniversaries
7 January 1967: broadcast of fourth episode of The Highlanders. The Doctor rescues everyone, Grey is led off to jail, and Jamie leaves with the Tardis crew.
7 January 1978: broadcast of first episode of Underworld. The Doctor lands on the Minyans’ ship, and they are bombarded by space debris. I watched this again last week and the first two episodes are not as bad as I remembered (the second two, however, are).
I find that hard to believe for several reasons, the most obvious being the sheer amount of female flesh exposed. Also, the hairstyles of the man and woman on the cover seem to fit the 70s – 80s period. I also wonder as to whether a book from 1948 would have as detailed a cover art as we see above. The same point goes for the publisher’s tag in the upper right corner – were they seen in the 40s?
I also looked at the covers of the Sharon Green book, The Crystals of Mida, I mentioned earlier. At this link you can see both the British and US versions of her book – the British version being the one with the same cover art as your Conquest of the Amazon. The US version is interesting in that the art, whilst different from the British one, is near identical in composition. Taking our two differing contentions we then get these possible attribution-chains:
1. Racy 1948 cover of Conquest of the Amazon inspires US Artist to crib and modify cover for The Crystals of Mida, US Artist tells UK publisher about the 1948 cover and they decide to use 1948 cover for the UK edition.
or
2. Sharon Green’s US cover is inspired by the writing in the book (and so is appropriate to it), UK artist work is inspired by the US cover. Late 80s edition of CotA has a lazy producer who re-uses the Amazon artwork from Sharon Green’s UK Edition.
In support of (2) this discussion on Trojan Publications would seem to indicate they were into re-using artwork originally commissioned for major publishers.