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 Robert Graef
This cover, which celebrates a culture clash unlike any other, is from 1930.
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 Robert Graef
This is from 1929.
by Robert Graef
This exciting cover is from 1929. As can be told by the signature in the bottom right-hand corner, the artist was was Robert Graef.
By Robert Graef
This dangerous angel is from 1930.
All of the covers below were done, for Argosy, by the artist Robert Graef. Born in New York City, Robert Graef started his career in 1900 and was still active and working at the time of his death in 1951. For those five decades, Graef worked out of the same art studio at 70 Fifth Avenue in New York. As shown below, the work that he created in that studio has lived on:
Through the Shattered Lens 