Pulp Science Fiction Merch
Description: Super Science Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine published by Popular Publications from 1940 to 1943, and again from 1949 to 1951. Popular launched it under their Fictioneers imprint, which they used for magazines, paying writers less than one cent per word. Frederik Pohl was hired in late 1939, at 19 years old, to edit the magazine; he also edited Astonishing Stories, a companion science fiction publication. Pohl left in mid-1941 and Super Science Stories was given to Alden H. Norton to edit; a few months later Norton rehired Pohl as an assistant. Popular gave Pohl a very low budget, so most manuscripts submitted to Super Science Stories had already been rejected by the higher-paying magazines.
Description: Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction.
Description: Operator 5 was really Jimmy Christopher, a maverick secret service agent who worked as main operative for an ambiguous government organization. For this organization, Jimmy Christopher fought against America's enemies' efforts to take over America. The enemies were often from countries with fictional names and veiled references to nations such as Germany and Japan. Examples of foes fought by Operator 5 included the Thirteenth Darkness, The Atlantis (a flying fortress), The Yellow Scourge, Zaava, and the Black Menace.
Description: Fantastic Novels was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine published by the Munsey Company of New York from 1940 to 1941, and again by Popular Publications, also of New York, from 1948 to 1951. It was a companion to Famous Fantastic Mysteries. Like that magazine, it mostly reprinted science fiction and fantasy classics from earlier decades, such as novels by A. Merritt, George Allan England, and Victor Rousseau, though it occasionally published reprints of more recent work, such as Earth's Last Citadel, by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.
Description: Astonishing Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Popular Publications between 1940 and 1943. It was founded under Popular's "Fictioneers" imprint, which paid lower rates than Popular's other magazines. The magazine's first editor was Frederik Pohl, who also edited a companion publication, Super Science Stories. After nine issues Pohl was replaced by Alden H. Norton, who subsequently rehired Pohl as an assistant. The budget for Astonishing was very low, which made it difficult to acquire good fiction, but through his membership in the Futurians, a group of young science fiction fans and aspiring writers, Pohl was able to find material to fill the early issues.
Description: Inspired by the success of Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories, Clayton Publishing Co. released, in January of 1930, the first issue of Astounding Stories. Early issues lacked much of Gernsback's attention to the scientific and extrapolative possibilities of the SF genre, and instead featured many instances of stock, pulp adventure yarns simply transplanted into exotic or alien environments. While possibly a travesty in the eyes of SF purists, it attracted many SF fans and general pulp readers, and aided Astounding's first three years of survival, until its cancellation during the height of the Great Depression in March of 1933.
Description: Vintage science fiction pulp magazine cover for the March 1958 issue of Fantastic Universe, featuring an iconic surrealist illustration by Virgil Finlay depicting a man in a harlequin mask removing his head like a hat to reveal a robotic interior to a shocked blonde woman holding a green masquerade mask. The cover text highlights John Brunner's novel "Rendezvous with Destiny", "Shapes in the Sky" by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, and stories by Avram Davidson, Theodore Pratt, and R. M. Williams.
Description: At the end of WWII, when desperate Nazis struck a secret pact with invading aliens, Earth was on the brink of collapse—until she traveled back through time to stop them. Armed with grit, firepower, and future knowledge, she tore through France’s battle-scarred fields to shatter their alliance before history could break. This is the new edition in the Earth’s Last Bombshell series. If you’re into retro sci-fi, pulp war stories, and badass pin-up heroes, I made this for you!
Description: Step into the Golden Age of Sci-Fi with this iconic 1957 magazine cover. This striking illustration by the legendary Frank Kelly Freas—often called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists"—originally graced the November 1957 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The artwork brings to life the cover story, "The Gentle Earth" by Christopher Anvil, depicting blue-skinned alien invaders struggling against the unexpected, "gentle" environmental conditions of our planet.
Description: Travel back to the height of mid-century space-age imagination with this striking cover art from the April 1957 issue of Fantastic Science Fiction magazine. Illustrated by the iconic sci-fi artist Edward Valigursky, the vibrant design captures a classic mad scientist trope: a serious, green-goggled technician monitors control dials while a glamorous woman remains trapped inside a giant, bubbling glass incubation capsule. The cover boldly highlights the teaser line "Bottle Baby—This Gorgeous Man Trap Came Under Glass" alongside the premiere of the serial "The Vengeance of Kyvor". It is a quintessential collectible piece for fans of retro futurism, classic pulp digests, space-age graphics, and 1950s pop culture decor.
