Skulls and bones were a mainstay on the covers of pulp and especially horror related magazines. For this Halloween, take a trip back into the bony past with a few skeletal covers from the pulp era!
by Rudolph Belarski
by Rafael De Soto
by Robert Stanley
by Robert Gibson Jones
by Robert Gibson Jones
This amazing cover comes from 1947.
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
by Robert Gibson Jones
“Could a lone girl fight against the horror of these living dead?” Why should she have to? Are there no men willing step up? This cover is from 1951 and it shows that the bystander syndrome is not a new thing.
by Robert Gibson Jones
This Roman cover is from 1951.
by Robert Gibson Jones
This is from 1948. I don’t know if it’s scary but it’s certainly grotesque.
by Robert Gibson Jones
Happy Labor Day!
by Robert Gibson Jones
This is from 1951.
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 Robert Gibson Jones
This cover is from 1943. Always have a whip handy.
Through the Shattered Lens 