Pulp Parade #330: Tube girl oh yeah…and some more dubious stuff

This is Marvel Tales for May 1940, with a cover by H.W. Scott. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers, where the curators have made the entire issue available for download, and have also posted some interesting interior art, all of it uncredited, unfortunately. There is this, illustrating Nils O. Sonderlund’s “Mistress of Machine-Age Madness.”

This illustrating Robert Wentworth’s “World without Sex.” (As the illustration suggests, the story is something of a doozy and in publishing I’ve had to weigh its undoubted historical significance against whatever bullshit MRA types will generate out of it.)

This illustrating George E. Clark’s cover story “Test Tube Monster.” I like the conceit that by the year 1978 we’d be making beautiful women in test tubes.

And finally this illustrating Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.’s “Princess of Power.”

Pulp Parade #329: That’s…entertainment?

This is the cover for Marvel Science Stories for November 1938, cover by Frank R. Paul. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers, the curators of which have also made the entire issue available for download. As an example of this issue’s interior art, this illustration to Henry Kuttner’s cover story “The Time Trap,” also by Frank R. Paul.

Pulp Parade #328: An earth-shattering ka-boom

This is Marvel Science Stories for February 1951, cover by Norman Saunders. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers, where the curators have also made the entire issue available for download as well as some fine interior art, in this case all by Vincent Napoli. For example, this illustration for Bryce Walton’s story “The Man.”

This example of the tube-girl meme for another Bryce Walton story, “The Difference.”

And this warrior-girl illustration to the title story, Alfred Coppel’s “Forbidden Weapon.”

Pulp Parade #326: The Guilding Gun

This is Marvel Science Stories for November 1950, cover by Norman Saunders. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers, where the curators also include some interior art, including this piece by Frank R. Paul illustrating Lloyd Arthur Eschback’s “Overlord of Earth.”

And this rather dynamic illustration by Vincent Napoli illustrating A Bertram Chandler’s “Fire Brand!”

You can download and read the entire issue at the Internet Archive.

Pulp Parade #325: The Great Brain Am Winning Again!

This is Marvel Science Stories for August 1938, cover by Norman Saunders. The ISFDB entry is here. I found this version of the cover at New Image: “Allegory of Censorship”

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