
by Rafael DeSoto
This is from 1942. There’s a lot happening on this cover.

by Rafael DeSoto
This is from 1942. There’s a lot happening on this cover.
Years before any whistleblowers testified at any Congressional hearings about crashed UFOS and “non-human remains,” the pulps told the world all that it needed to know about spaceships, aliens, and what lies beyond the Milky Way. Here’s a small sampling of the out of this world covers of the pulps (and one comic book that I included because I liked the cover)!

Artist Unknown
This is from 1953 and apparently deals with the dangers of letting friends cut your hair.

by Clark Hulings
This is from 1956. Everyone looks a little old to still be living in the sorority house.
Eyeful Magazine was a pin-up publication published from 1943 to 1955. Considered to be racy for its day, the magazine today seems tame if not exactly innocent. Compared to the sultry pin-ups that appeared in similar publications, the pin-ups in Eyeful were innocently flirtatious. The magazine’s covers announced that the magazine’s main goal was “Glorifying the American girl,” but, judging from the covers, it looks like the main theme was that you could do anything high heels. Though many artists contributed cover for Eyeful, all of the covers featured here were done by Peter Driben.
My favorite cover is the last one because the cow looks just as confused by the model’s reaction as the reader.

Artist Unknown
This is from 1948. If holding hands is twisted, I guess we’re all a little twisted.

Artist Unknown
This is from 1965.

by Stanley Borack
Actually, both sisters are totally normal. One of them should give up smoking, though.

by Harold W. McCauley
This cover is from 1960. They don’t look that tormented to me. It looks like everyone’s having fun!