Welcome to the Future!


by Raymond L. Jones

Happy New Year and welcome to the future!  Whenever we start a new year, I always like to go back and see what people thought the future would be like.  While a visitor from the 1950s would be astounded by much of what we take for granted in 2020, they might still wonder why we don’t have a single lunar colony.

Here are just a few examples of what the pulp era expected from the future:

by Stanley Meltzoff

Artist Unknown

by Earle Bergey

by Earle Bergey

by Earle Bergey

by Earle Bergey

by Rudolph Belarski

by Ed Valigursky

Artist Unknown

by Elliott Dold

by Milton Luros

by John Forte Jr.

by Milton Luros

Artist Profile: Milton Luros (1911–1999)


LurosMilton Luros was born in Brooklyn, New York.  After graduating high school, he attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he studied commercial illustration.  By 1937, he was freelance artist whose work appeared on the covers of magazines like Crack Detective, True Gangsters, and Western Aces.  In the 1950s, Luros wrote and drew a nationally syndicated comic strip called  Roger Lincoln, S-Man.  Later in his career, Luros worked as both an agent and a publisher.

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