My original tumblr post was here. This image was originally posted on tumblr by Sci-Fi Covers with the explanatory text “Ace Books S-90: The Chaos Fighters by Robert Moore Williams, 1955. Cover art by Robert E. Schulz.”
Tag Archives: pulp art
Tumblr favorite #2812: A peek inside a pulp
My original tumblr post was here. This sequence of images was originally posted on tumblr by twofistedpulp with the following explanatory text:
Robots! Dames! Raygun! Exaggerated Fonts!
That’s Startling Stories for you.
And, That Cover.
One of the Later Captain Future stories by Edmond Hamilton appears here, Captain Future, one of the classic pulp scifi heroes, a mainstay in his own magazine as well as Startling for more then a decade, who would go on to success as of all things, a Japanese Anime series. Ha.
Startling Stories vol.20 #3, january 1950. Cover by Earle Bergey.
Tumblr favorite #2807: Mars Breaks Through
My original tumblr post was here. This image was originally posted on tumblr by Not Pulp Covers.
Tumblr favorite #2792: A tube girl! And a scientist! And a spaceman! And a dragon!
My original tumblr post was here. This iamge was originally posted on tumblr by Vintage Geek Problem. This is the February 1940 cover for Thrilling Wonder Stories, done by Harold V. Brown. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here.
Tumblr favorite #2791: Distracting the controllers
My original tumblr post was here. This image was originally posted by Vintage Geek Culture. This is the cover for the November 1950 edition of Super Science Stories; the ISFBD entry for the issue is here. The cover is by H.R. van Dongen.
Tumblr favorite #2785: I guess I’ll never understand space costumes
My original tumblr post was here. This is the December 1950 cover of Out of this World Adventures, a pulp magazine that was edited by Donald A. Wolheim and appears to have only had two issues; the ISFDB entry for the magazine is here. I found the cover tweeted by Victor M. Luoma. I’ve been unable to ascertain the identity of the artist, but I did find a larger version of the same image at Retrospace.
Tumblr favorite #2780: Venus enslaved!
My original tumblr post was here. These images were originally posted on tumblr by Diabolik Diabolik and identified as being from Planet Stories #11, 1942 (that would be Summer 1942; the ISFDB link for the issue is here), with an attribution of the cover art to Norman Saunders and the interior art to Winfield Scott Hoskins. The post comes to us via paranormallust-eroticart.
Tumblr favorite #2777: Apocalyptic bad robot
My original tumblr post was here. This is the cover of Famous Fantastic Mysteries for June 1950. The ISFDB entry for the issue is here. It was originally tweeted by Pulp Librarian.
Tumblr favorite #2771: Walter Popp, pulpist
My original tumblr post was here, from a tweet by 1whoknewcthulhu. There is a gallery of pulp and men’s magazine art by Walter Popp here which I strongly encourage you to visit. If you don’t thrill to a piece illustrating “Italian Nudist Girls Who Knocked Out Germany’s Underground Tank Depot,” perhaps you should check yourself for a pulse, just to be sure.
Tumblr favorite #2768: A ray gun and a tail
My original tumblr post was here. This image was tweeted by EYE STREAM. The image appears to be cover art for a sci-fi paperback:
Image found at Goodreads.