by Enoch Bolles

54 years ago today, the first manned spaceflight to the Moon touched down on the lunar surface.  Let’s celebrate this wonderful anniversary with a little help from the pulps!  Not only were these covers illustrated by some of the finest artists working in the business but they also provide a clue as to how people imagined life on the Moon before Neil Armstrong first stepped out of the capsule.

by Albert Drake

by Edmund Emshwiller

by Frank Frazetta

by Howard V. Brown

by Joe Orlando

by Lawrence Sterne Stevens

by Robert Graef

by Roger Kastel

by Walter Popp

by John Melo