My original tumblr post was here. This image is the cover of Avon Science Fiction Reader #1 (1951). It has an ISFDB entry, but unfortunately neither it nor my searches have revealed the identity of the cover artist. The image was first posted on Tumblr by Good Girl Art.
Tag Archives: pulp art
Tumblr favorite #2663: Otherworldly
My original tumblr post was here. These images of issues of Other Worlds were originally posted on Tumblr by Hevelin Collection with the following explanatory text:
These issues of Other Worlds are incredible examples of pulp art. Each digest-size magazine is lushly illustrated on both covers, featuring works from pulp masters such as J. Allen St. John and Hannes Bok. Enjoy!
Other Worlds. Edited by Bea Mahafley and Ray Palmer. Issue 26, February 1953. Front cover by Malcom H. Smith, back cover by J. Allen St. John.
Other Worlds. Edited by Bea Mahafley and Ray Palmer. Issue 24, December 1952. Front cover by Malcom H. Smith, back cover by Robert Gibson Jones.
Other Worlds. Edited by Bea Mahafley and Ray Palmer. Issue 30, June 1953. Front cover by Hannes Bok, back cover by Robert Gibson Jones.
Other Worlds. Edited by Bea Mahafley and Ray Palmer. Issue 23, November 1952. Front cover by Robert Gibson Jones , back cover by J. Allen St. John.
Other Worlds. Edited by Bea Mahafley and Ray Palmer. Issue 25, January 1953. Front cover by H. W. McCauley, back cover by Hannes Bok.
?-Laura H.
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Tumblr favorite #2652: Spawn of the Green Abyss
My original tumblr pot was here. This image is the November 1946 cover of Weird Tales done by Boris Dolgov. The ISFDB entry for the issue is here. It was first posted on Tumblr by Vintage Geek Culture.
Tumblr favorite #2650: Blonde carried off
My original tumblr post was here. This image by Frank Kelly Freas was posted on Tumblr by Vintage Geek Culture. While it appears to be paperback cover art, I have been unable to find an example of it used in that context.
Tumblr favorite #2642: The Golden Amazon
My original tumblr post was here. This image was first posted on Tumblr by Reginald Juice and comes to us via letshavoc.
Tumblr favorite #2635: A grand tradition
My original tumblr post was here, with a comment “Take that, enormous brain.” They were originally posted on Tumblr by Vintage Geek Culture with the comment “‘In the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs.’ Oh, most definitely.” I have been unable to discover the name of the artist or artists who created these covers.
Tumblr favorite #2633: The fiction of tomorrow today!
My original tumblr post was here. This image is the cover of Super Science Stories (January 1950). The cover is by Lawrence Sterne Stevens and the ISFDB entry for the issue is here. The image was first posted on Tumblr by Vintage Geek Culture.
Tumblr favorite #2632: The Robot Empire
My original tumblr post was here. This image is the cover of Avon Science Fiction Reader (No. 3, January 1952). The cover illustration is by Earle Bergey, and the ISFDB entry for this issue can be found here. It was originally posted on Tumblr by When I forget how to talk I sing and comes to us via Women fucking monsters.
Tumblr favorite #2629: Why vote for the lesser evil?
My original tumblr post was here. These images were first posted on Tumblr by Vintage Geek Culture with the explanatory text “The Manchurian Candidate has the exact same plot – the exact same one – as President Fu Manchu, written earlier.” They come to us via Supervillain Seeking Minions.
Tumblr favorite #2563: The Female Man
My original tumblr post was here. This cropped paperback cover image was first posted by Pulp Desire with the following explanatory text:
The Female Man
Bantam Books Q8765
Published 1975
Cover Artist: Morgan Kane
“Across the boundaries of alternate worlds, beyond all sexual barriers, comes the only kind of man there is.”
The explanatory text oddly omits that the author of the underlying book was Joanna Russ. Here is the uncropped cover, found at Ravishly.com.
The original image comes to us via Science Blogtion.