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The Covers of Science Fiction Adventures

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In the 1950s, there was actually two magazines called Science Fiction Adventures.  Neither one of them ran for very long.  The first Science Fiction Adventures lasted for two years, from 1952 to 1954 and it was canceled due to low sales.  The name was then used for another magazine, that ran from 1956 to 1958 and which was also canceled for low sales.  After the second cancellation, publishers got the hint and didn’t use the name again.

Below is a handful of covers from both versions of Science Fiction Adventures.

November, 1952, by H.R. Van Dongen

March, 1954. By Mel Hunter

December, 1956. By Edmumd Emshwiller

August, 1957. By Robert V. Engle

September, 1957. By Edmund Emshwiller

December, 1957. By Edmund Emshwiller

January, 1958. By John Schoenherr

April, 1958. By Edmund Emshwiller

The Futuristic Covers of Future Science Fiction

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January, 1954. Artwork by Alex Schomburg

Future Science Fiction was a magazine that started in 1939 and was initially published until 1943.  The World War II paper shortage brought the magazine to a temporary end but, in 1950, the magazine was relaunched and ran for another ten years.  Future featured stories about aliens, different worlds, and future wars.  Writers such as Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, and Philip K. Dick appeared in the magazine.  Today, though, the magazine is best remembered for covers that brought a distinct pulp sensibility to the science fiction genre.

Here are just a few of the covers of Future Science Fiction.

March, 1939. Artwork by Frank R. Paul

August, 1942. Artwork by John Forte, Jr.

October, 1942. Cover by Hannes Bok

August, 1950. Artwork by Earle Bergey

October, 1950. Artwork by Leo Morey

March, 1951. Artwork by Milton Luros

1952, September. Artwork by Peter Poulton

1954, March. Artwork by Alex Schomburg

Summer, 1957. Artwork by Frank Kelly Freas

February, 1959. Artwork by Edmund Emshwiller

June, 1959. Artwork by Virgil Finlay

February, 1960. Artwork by Paul Orban

The Out Of This World Covers Of The Pulps

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by Leo Morey

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)!

by Albert Drake

by Carmine Infantino

by Edmund Emshwiller

by Frank R. Paul

by Fred Kirberger

by Leo Morey

by Leo Morey

by Lou Morales

by Mel Hunter

by Peter Poulton

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Virgil Finlay

Celebrate Moon Day With The Pulps

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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