The Pulps Go To The Moon


by John Melo

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 Joe Orlando
by Roger Kastel
by Frank Frazetta
by Edmund Emshwiller
by Albert Drake
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens
by Robert Graef
by Howard V. Brown
by Walter Popp
by Enoch Bolles

 

Celebrate Moon Day With The Pulps


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

 

Artist Profile: Robert Graef (1879 — 1951)


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: