Pulp Sci Fi Shorts
Description: An action-packed September 1950 cover of the British edition of Black Mask magazine, showcasing a vibrant sci-fi noir illustration painted by renowned pulp artist Norman Saunders. The scene depicts a dramatic struggle where a caped woman wielding a heavy film reel defends herself against a man armed with a ray gun, highlighting Fred Lane's featured story "Slayer at Sea".
Description: On a quiet hillside beneath a fallen flying saucer, a conflicted young alien turns against his own invading force after falling for an Earth girl who refuses to surrender her world to monstrous lobster creatures bred as living harvest for another planet. As claws rise over the grass and chrome ships burn the sky, forbidden love becomes humanity’s last defense in this explosive 1950s and 1960s sci-fi creature feature nightmare straight from the golden age of drive-in terror. If you’re a fan of alien invasion movies, giant monster films, drive-in creature features, retro sci-fi horror, and classic B-movie posters, then 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: A retro-futuristic, post-apocalyptic poster-style artwork featuring a shaggy dog, a determined young man in a checkered cap, and a fallen woman, all set against bold typography and industrial backdrops. With crackled textures and punchy colors, the design echoes 70s sci-fi satire, imagining a grim yet oddly playful future where survival is strange—and companionship is everything.
Description: A dramatic vintage sci-fi comic book cover featuring menacing snowmen aliens wearing hats, smoking pipes, and shooting deadly red laser beams from their eyes. In the background, a sleek golden spaceship hovers over a frozen landscape, reinforcing the invasion theme. Bold, retro typography shouts “Strange Adventures” and “Invaders from the Ice World!” in bright red and yellow, while distressed textures capture the nostalgic pulp style of 1950s science fiction.
Description: Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, when his media company Experimenter Publishing went bankrupt. Within a few months of the bankruptcy, Gernsback launched three new magazines: Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Stories, and Science Wonder Quarterly.
