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.
Real Men Magazine ran from 1956 to 1975. It was a magazine full of pin-ups and stories about war, crime, and adventure. You can probably guess what the magazine was about just by looking at the covers below. If you think some of the covers below are racy, you should see the ones that I couldn’t include in this post!
by Clarence Doore
by Clarence Doore
by John Leone
by Mel Crair
by Milton Luros
by Roger Kastel
by Roger Kastel
by Sydney Shores
by Victor Prezio
by Victor Prezio
One of the most popular and financially successful pulp magazines, Adventure Magazine ran from 1910 t0 1971, for a total of 881 issues! That’s 881 covers, all done by some of the best illustrators and artists in the pulp field. I can’t share all 881 of those covers but I can still offer a small but representative sampling of the adventurous covers of Adventure Magazine! As you can see Adventure featured adventures that took place everywhere, including underwater, in the jungle, in war, and during the era of the Old West.
By Charles Dye
by Griffith Foxley
by Herb Mott
by Mel Crair
by Mort Kunstler
by Peter Stevens
by Rico Tomaso
by Roger Kastel
by Shannon Stirnweis
by Sydney Shores
by Victor Prezio
by Walter Baumhofer
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 Roger Kastel
Happy Star Wars Day!
by Roger Kastel
Through the Shattered Lens 