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I’ve compiled a gallery on Flickr of ten Mars science fiction & fantasy pulp magazine covers, all from Astounding Stories and Astounding Science Fiction, ranging from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. Please let me know which cover you like best!
Thursday, April 29, 2010
10 astounding Mars pulp covers
I’ve compiled a gallery on Flickr of ten Mars science fiction & fantasy pulp magazine covers, all from Astounding Stories and Astounding Science Fiction, ranging from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. Please let me know which cover you like best!
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I met Mr. Freas in 1982, the the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago...as I recall a rather nice fellow. I like his work.
The Freas cover is one of the few pulp covers to have had a life of its own, as it has been re-used elsewhere, and it probably the best.
However, for sheer pulpiness I like the "Monsters of Mars" one, with those alligator creatures on the cover and the Earthman boldly leaping, boots first, towards them.
Hi Paul,
Great, great covers!
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Agreed, the Freas Martian is probably one of the most enduring SF images. If I recall, the Merril Collection at the Toronto Public Library uses it as a promotional piece.
i love all of them! there's a quaint kitschiness to these old covers
I'm more of a "what does Mars look like?" kind of guy. So I'm digging the Dec 1952 cover which conveys a sense of the 'magnificent desolation' of the martian landscape.
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