by Robert Gibson Jones
First published in 1926, Amazing Stories was the first magazine to be devoted to science fiction and it’s still going, nearly 100 years later! There have been many amazing covers over the course of this magazine’s history. Here are just a few of them.
by Arnold Kohn
by Ed Valigursky
by Frank R. Paul
by H.R. Hammond
by Harold W. McCauley
by J. Allen St. John
by Leo Morey
by Robert Frank
by Robert Fuqua
by Robert Gibson Jones
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
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
by Alex Schomburg
Happy Dinosaur Day! Today is the day when we celebrate the former rulers of our planet! Dinosaurs were alwasy a popular subject with the pulps. Pulp magazines were full of stories about modern-day dinosaurs and speculation about why the real ones when extinct. Putting a dinosaur on the cover of a magazine or a paperback was a good way to catch the attention of readers all over. Today, let’s celebrate Dinosaur Day with the help of the pulps!
Artist Unknown
Artist Unknown
by Edmund Emshwiller
by Frank R. Paul
by George Gross
by Howard V. Brown
by J. Allen St. John
by J. Allen St. John
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens
by Thomas Beecham
Happy Dinosaur Day!
by Jerome Podwil
by Henry Fox
Where would be without science? We would have less mad scientists and Halloween would be much less interesting! The pulp ere was full of men and women of science who had been driven crazy by the search for knowledge. Today, we pay tribute to the terrifying scientists of the pulp era!
by David Berger
by Frank R. Paul
by George Menendez Rae
by Herman Bischoff
by John Doolin
by Rafael DeSoto
by Rafael DeSoto
by Ralph Joiner
by Robert Fuqua
by Sol Immerman
by Graves Gladney
by Edmund Emshwiller
Science Fiction Quarterly began it’s initial run in 1940 and, with the world distracted by war in the present, it ceased publication in 1943. However, once the war was over and people were once again looking to the future, Science Fiction Quarterly was revived in 1951 and ran until 1958. Over the course of its run, it published many of the current and future “big names” in science fiction. Isaac Asimon, Arthur C. Clarke, James Blish, and Donald Wolheim were among the writers whose work appeared in the pages of Science Fiction Quarterly. When Science Fiction Quarterly ceased publication in 1958, it was the last of the science fiction pulp magazines. When there were no more issues of Science Fiction Quarterly, it was the end of the era but, considering the future success of the magazine’s writers, it would also be the beginning of a new age.
With 2020 soon coming to a close, now seems like a good time to look to the future with the covers of Science Fiction Quarterly.
by A. Leslie Ross
by Alex Schomburg
by Allen Gustav Anderson
by Edmund Emshwiller
by Edmund Emswhiller
by Frank Kelly Freas
by Frank Kelly Freas
by Frank R. Paul
by Jack Binder
by Leo Morey
by Milton Luros
by Milton Luros
by Milton Luros
The first issue of Science Wonder Stories appeared in 1929. It was published by Luxembourg-born businessman, Hugo Gernsback. Along with publishing magazines, Gernsback also owned a radio station and was an amateur inventor. He was also a tireless supporter of science fiction, arguing that his pulp magazines should be read by students in school because science fiction was educational as well as being entertaining.
Science Wonder Stories was one of the many magazines that Gernsbeck founded. The first issue was published in 1929 and featured stories and artwork from several pioneers of the science fiction genre. In 1930, Gernsbeck merged Science Wonder Stories with another magazine, Air Wonder Stories. The new magazine was called Wonder Stories and ran until 1964.
Below are some of the covers of Science Wonder Stories. All of these covers were done by Frank R. Paul.
by Frank R. Paul
Through the Shattered Lens 