Pulp Science Fiction Tapestries
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: 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: 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: 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 back into the Golden Age of science fiction with this authentic 1950s pulp B-movie poster style illustration. Featuring dramatic space age art, vintage typography, alien invaders, and retro cosmic adventures on the Red Planet, this piece is an absolute must-have for fans of classic cult cinema and pulp magazine covers.
Description: A desperate alien command launches Plan 9—the final warning to Earth—as flying saucers rip open the night sky and the dead rise from their graves to stop humanity’s fatal mistake before it destroys the universe itself. In glowing graveyards and shadowy streets, the invasion begins where fear walks again. If you’re a fan of 1950s sci-fi, Ed Wood cult classics, retro flying saucers, zombies, graveyard horror, and vintage B-movie poster art, then I made this for you!
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: High-energy retro Japanese bootleg illustration depicting a space heroine in a silver swimsuit aiming a retro raygun against a towering futuristic metropolis and glowing red halo. Framed with vintage distressed textures and bold Kanji. A classic pulp sci-fi piece from the Unwarranted Science Fiction series.
Description: "There Is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as time and space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and supserstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
Description: When the skies split open and the invaders arrive, one woman becomes humanity's last weapon. Feared as much as the monsters she hunts, Bombshell carries enough firepower to level cities and just enough hope to keep the world alive. A love letter to retro sci fi, alien invasion, and explosive B-movie action with unapologetic pulp energy. If you're a fan of retro sci fi, alien invasion, and b movie action, then I made this for you!
Description: Step into the thrilling world of vintage sci-fi with our 'Galactic Intrusion: Retro Odyssey' design! Inspired by the iconic 1950s American pulp comic book covers, this artwork takes you on a journey to a time of alien invasions and daring escapades across new and mysterious worlds.
