57 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 Lawrence Sterne Stevens
This handsy cover is from 1946.
56 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 show how people imagined life on the Moon before Neil Armstrong took his one small step.
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
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens
This is from 1950.
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 Lawrence Sterne Stevens
This is from 1949. I’m wondering how he transformed from being a naked caveman into being a man wearing a suit. This cover was done by the prolific Lawrence Sterne Stevens!
This is from 1949. I guess back then people thought that future would involve putting women in bubbles and then shooting them out of cannons. I’m not sure. I’m glad that future didn’t come to pass, though. This cover was done by Lawrence Sterne Stevens.
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens
Famous Fantastic Mysteries was published from 1939 to 1953. The covers, which were done by some of the best illustrators of the day, are highly valued by collectors and, from the examples below, it’s easy to see why. Check out these exciting covers from Famous Fantastic Mysteries!
by Virgil Finlay
by Virgil Finlay
by Virgil Finlay
by Virgil Finlay
by Virgil Finlay
by Norman Saunders
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens
by Frank R. Paul
Through the Shattered Lens 