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Book covers, "Tom Edision, Boy Inventor" and "George Carver, Boy Scientist", art by Wally Wood. Picture-cover editions of two titles in the Bobbs-Merrill Company's "Childhood of Famous Americans" series.

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To illustrate the work of the visual artist who is the article's subject, and specifically to exemplify rare non-comics-related art by the artist. The text notes, "Wood expanded into book illustrations, including for the picture-cover editions (though not the dust-jacket editions) of titles in the 1959 Aladdin Books reissues of Bobbs Merrill's 1947 'Childhood of Famous Americans" series.'" This creative expansion from the field in which he was well-known and established into a realm requiring a different style of art is biographically significant. Seeing only the artist's primary style does not give an appreciable understanding of the artist in terms of his scope and stylistic range.

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Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It illustrates an educational article about the visual artist.
2. The image is used as the sole means of visual identification of Wood's non-comics work, for which an illustrative depiction of the artist's work is necessary for encyclopedic understanding
3. The image depicts a biographically significant work by the artist, as noted above and as discussed in the article
4. The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.
5. It is a low-resolution image.
6. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
7. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.