Tag Archives: Thrilling Wonder Stories

Pulp Parade #314: Gator Bait in space!

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for October 1947, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here.

The reference of my title snark is obscure. It’s this oddly-compelling 1974 Cajunsploitation movie, which the boys at the the Grindbin Podcast sent up back in March 2017.

I extracted this version of the cover from the issue as preserved at the Internet Archive. This issue also has at least two Virgil Finlay illustrations on inside pages, one illustrating Frederick Pohl’s “Donovan Had a Dream:”

And another illustrating Leslie Charteris’s “The Darker Drink:”

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

Pulp Parade #312: Out of my lab, frat boy!

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for August 1950, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I extracted this cover from the copy of the issue preserved at the Internet Archive. Along with the cover, I also extracted this interior art by Vincent Napoli, illustrating Walt Sheldon’s story “Spacemate:”

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

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Pulp Parade #311: Well, you should have gone out dressed properly

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for Spring 1954, cover by Walter Popp, and boy does this one really push the boundaries of “if you’re pretty enough your space costume doesn’t need to make sense,” because it looks like our intrepid space heroine is out there in the vacuum wearing a red bathing suit and sandals. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers.

Frrom the version of this issue preserve at the Internet Archive, here’s an interior illustration for Frank Belknap Long’s story “Manhunt” done by Ed Emshwiller:

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

Pulp Parade #310: Specimens

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for October 1952, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I extracted this version of the cover from the issue as preserved at the Internet Archive, along with this piece of interior art by Virgil Finlay, illustrating Wallace West’s novel The Bird of Time:

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

Pulp Parade #307: Mystery cover

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for December 1950, and none of my usually reliable sources can tell me who painted this strange cover. The ISFDB entry for the issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers, where the curators also provide some nice interior art. There is this drawing by Paul Orban illustrating Leigh Brackett’s story “Citadel of the Lost Ages.”

And this by Vincent Napoli illustrating Frank Belknap Long, Jr.’s “If You Don’t Watch Out.”

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

Pulp Parade #306: Ghostly vision

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for December 1948, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. The version of the cover above is extracted from the copy of this issue preserved at the Internet Archive. The index at Galactic Central has a smaller version of the cover which hasn’t been marked by some used bookstore clerk (seriously, what kind of thoughtless vandal marks a cover like that?).

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

Pulp Parade #305: Troll attack

This is Thrilling Wonder Stories for February 1950, cover by Earle Bergey. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. The cover preserved at the Internet Archive has somewhat less vivid color by less wear:

In addition to this rather dramatic Earle Bergey cover, there is a fetching Virgil Finlay illustration to Leigh Brackett’s story “The Dancing Girl of Ganymede.”

Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was a rare example of a woman writing in the pulp science fiction genre. She would survive the pulp era long enough to get a screenwriting credit on The Empire Strikes Back.

You can read and downland this entire issue at The Internet Archive.