Classic Pulp Fiction Art

Vivid covers of vintage sci-fi and fantasy magazines, illustrating captivating stories with striking artwork that draws viewers into imaginary worlds.

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1946 , featuring the story 'Toka and the man bats' by J. W. Pelkie. A beautiful young woman lies on the floor of a dark cave scared by a huge paranormal half man half bat creature with red batwings. Date: 1946

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1948, featuring the story 'The Lavender vine of death' by Don Wilcox. A huge purple monster devours a modern building. Two woman and a officer watch the incident from a save place far away. Date: 1948

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1947, featuring the story 'The Tale of the red dwarf who writes with his tail' by the red dwarf. A big plump looking devil is writing with his own tail in a book. He is interrupted by an weird looking musculus blue skinned man. Date: 1946

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1951, featuring the story 'Nine worlds west' by Clee Garson. Green skinned weird looking man watches a young screaming woman falling into a burning abyss. Date: 1951

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1942, featuring the story 'Dwellers of the Deep' by Don Wilcox. Man in wet suit looks through a round window of a submarine. In there is a pretty woman stares dreamy into the distance. Both are surrounded by fishy looking green creatures. Date: 1942

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1946 , featuring the story 'Toka and the man bats' by J. W. Pelkie. A beautiful young woman lies on the floor of a dark cave scared by a huge paranormal half man half bat creature with red batwings. Date: 1946

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, July 1947, featuring the story 'Goddess of the Golden Flame' by William P. McGivern. A powerful-looking fantasy woman directs a thunderbolt at an approaching man and blasts the gun from his hand while a blue and green dragon watches. Date: 1947

Thrilling Wonder Stories: Sheena and the X Machine, 1940's Visions of the Future

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, July 1946, featuring the story 'Cult of the Eagle' by Berkeley Livingston. A bird-man throws a young woman in the air while a man in a blue suite pointing a gun hat him. Date: 1946

Magic poster - Carter The Great sweeps the secret of the Sphinx and marvels of the tomb of old king Tut to the modern world

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1948, featuring the story 'Lair of the Grimalkin' by G. H. Irwin. Amazonian beauty in purple dress with flowers in her hair walks nervously through a swamp with an entourage of four very odd alien creatures. Date: 1948

'THE RETURN OF THE TRIPEDS' (Neil R Jones) The Professor (as a metal man) fights the flying beings until his rescue ship arrives. Date: 1932

THIS WAY TO HEAVEN by Harold M Sherman. A golden figure falls through space on this dramatic Sci Fi Cover Date: 1948

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1948, featuring the story 'Slaves of the worm' by Richard S. Shaver. Two witches standing at the abyss of a hole. A bizarre and huge looking monster looks out of the hole showing its spiky teeth. Date: 1948

Face Beyond the Veil, Pulp Magazine Covers

Startling Stories - The Great Ego by Norman A. Daniels. A woman tied to a chair and a man who has fallen to the floor, are attacked by a serpent man as flames burn all around them. Date: 1944

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1946, featuring the story 'Minions of the Tiger' by Chester S. Geier. A young beautiful woman stares into the distance like in trance. A tiger face reflects in her eyes. Two dark wrinkled hands try to grab her. Date: 1946

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1949, featuring the story 'The Man who laughed at time' by Alexander Blade. Man in white cloak holds a golden scale. A little man is standing in one scale pan laughing lustily. Date: 1949

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1945, featuring the story 'The serpent has five fangs' by Don Wilcox. A man in safari suit is hiding in the jungle and watches how a young woman is kidnapped by a man in aztec clothing. He tug her to the entrance of a golden temple. Date: 1945

THE TIME MACHINE (1960), directed by GEORGE PAL.

Dreaming Jewels, Pulp Magazine Covers

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1940, featuring the story 'Jongor of lost Land' by Robert Moore Williams. Warrior sits on the back of a huge dinosaur and tries to shoot a attacking pterosaur. Date: 1940

Startling Stories - Tarnished Utopia by Malcolm Jameson. A man in a space suit and a woman are attacked by possessed trees. As the branches of the tree entangle the woman, the man heroically shoots a ray gun at the bedeviled tree in an attempt to rescue the trapped woman. Date: 1942

THE FORTRESS OF UTOPIA: On a lifeless mystery satellite, five lone mortals summon the secret forces of science to free the earth from the doom of the black nebula! Date: 1939

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1941, featuring the story 'Land of the Shadow Dragons' by Eando Binder. Man in overall defend a pretty woman from a huge dragon after their plane crashed. Date: 1941

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1944, featuring the story 'Outlaw Queen of Venus' by Wallace West. Woman in red suit rides a white horse. A group of men standing in front of her. Date: 1944

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1946, featuring the story 'Shadow of the Sphinx' by William Lawrence Hamling. A scary looking skeleton lies its hand on the shoulder of a young beautiful woman with a seductive look. Date: 1946

'Preview of Peril' (Story by Alfred Copper) Date: 1950

Magic poster - Thurston the Famous Magician - East Indian Rope-Trick

'THE MOON MISTRESS' (Raymond Gallun) - the insect god prepares to give his hungry followers a tasty dinner of raw Earthman. Date: 1932

Eye of the World, Pulp Magazine Covers

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1942, featuring the story 'The Giant from Jupiter' by Gerald Vance and Bruce Dennis. A huge green fishy looking alien creature is wounded by a shooting speedboat. Date: 1942

The Man From Beyond (John Baynon Harris) - Gratz steals the spaceship, leaving his companions stranded on Venus Date: 1934

'ROBOT A.1' (Oscar J Friend) A giant robot controlled by a human brain runs amok Date: 1939

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1945, featuring the story 'King of the Dinsaurs' by J. W. Pelkie. A warrior on a huge dangers looking dinosaur wields his axe against an attacking enemy. Date: 1945

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1941, featuring the story 'Onslaught of the druid girls' by Ray Cummings. A young beautiful woman rides a hippogriff. Date: 1941

Cabiria, Vintage Film Posters

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953), directed by BYRON HASKIN.

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, July 1945, featuring the story 'Diamond of Doom' by Alexander Blade. A man with grey skin holds a shining diamond in front of a young woman looking terrified by it. Date: 1945

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1949, featuring the story 'TITLE' by S. M. Tenneshaw. A huge beautiful woman stands in front of a red mountain and looks angrily at two men in snowsuit. Date: 1949

THE MAD ROBOT by William P McGivern. A brave man fires a ray-gun at an advancing metal robot with large claws and a brain encassed in a glass-domed head Date: 1944

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923), directed by WALLACE WORSLEY.

Magic poster - Carter The Great - The Vanishing Sacred Elephant

Miss Baldwin, a modern witch of Endor, Magic & Mesmer

THE METAL MONSTER by E K Jarvis. A massive metallic machine strides through the sea on four legs grabbing battleships in its clutches and firing a ray-gun Date: 1943

The front cover of Startling Stories magazine, showing spaceships destroying a city of the future. The lead story is entitled: "Pirates of the Time Trail" by sci-fi Ross Rocklynne. Date: 1943

'THE REIGN OF THE ROBOTS' (Edmond Hamilton) In Chicago, ten thousand years hence, the robots are the masters - but two intrepid time-travellers save the girl. Date: 1931

Startling Stories - Speak of the Devil by Norman A. Daniels. A figure of Satan looms over a man and a woman. The satanic creature possesses the man by holding a device over his head, inducing the man to attack the woman. With his other hand satan grasps the hair of the woman so she cannot escape. Date: 1943

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 American film directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney, and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg. The film was Universal's 'Super Jewel' of 1923 and was their most successful silent film, grossing over $3 million.

Mistress of the Djinn, Pulp Magazine Covers

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1942, featuring the story 'Mystery of the lost race' by E. K. Jarvis. Young woman fires with a futuristic looking weapon at tanks. The woman is surrounded by three men with bow and arrow. Date: 1942

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1940 featuring The Golden Princess, story by Robert Moore Williams. A magical fantasy woman hypnotises two men. Date: 1940

Q (1982), directed by LARRY COHEN.

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1941, featuring the story 'Slaves of the Fish Men' by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A bizzar fish-man creature is kidnapping a young woman. A crowed of weird looking people running after them trying to catch them. Date: 1941

Magic poster - One of Thurston's Astounding Mysteries

Fighting Robot, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1948, featuring the story 'The Man from yesterdayr' by Lee Francis. Two dishabille men are fighting in the jungle with spears. One man grasp the other on his throat to hit him to the ground. A spearhead stick in his back. Date: 1948

THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928), directed by PAUL LENI.

He's behind you! Description: Design for a theatre poster advertising a production of the pantomime Aladdin. Date: 1886 christmas, theatre, panto, copy1

Cover of Startling Stories, September 1940. A striking woman from the future in a red dress is threatened with alien injection, while a man with a ray gun and snazzy winged helmet tries to scare the aliens away. Date: 1940

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1941, featuring the story 'The Liquid Man' by Bernard C. Gilford. Weird looking man with green skin is going to drink a steaming liquid out of a test tube. A young woman bound and gagged looks frightened into the distance. Date: 1941

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1943, featuring the story 'The Ice Queen ' by Don Wilcox. A young woman rides a white lioness holding a sword in her hands. Date: 1943

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1944, featuring the story 'Cats of Kadenza' by Don Wilcox. Old man stares terrified in a mysterious glowing hand mirror. Cats scramble over some skulls. Date: 1944

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, July 1941, featuring the story 'Goddess of Fire' by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Young pretty woman with torch and crystal ball stands in front of a weird looking creature with a beak and blue wings. Date: 1941

'The Exterminators' (F A Kummer Jur) An attack from alien marauders Date: 1938

Greeting Card. ca. 1938, Greeting Card

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1942, featuring the story 'War on Venus ' by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A tiger catches a warrior with a spear while a young woman with spear in red dress tries to escape. Date: 1942

Science Fiction Quarterly: Astronaut Battle, Pulp Magazine Covers

Revista humorística infantil "Cuentos Vascos". Años 1940.

Startling Stories - City of Glass by Noel Loomis. A giant man attacks New York City. He has already plucked the Statue of Liberty out of the Hudson River (under one arm) and picked up the Empire State Building (held under the other arm). He is being attacked by the US Navy and Air Force from all sides. Date: 1942

'REVOLT OF THE ROBOTS' (Arthur R Tofte) Man finds himself challenged by the machines he himself created... Date: 1939

Creating a clone of the girl that two men are in love with - illustration to 'The Four-sided Triangle' by William F Temple. Date: 1939

Fox on the Run, Police, Law Enforce, & Crime

1860s 1870s THE DRUNKARD'S CAREER TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT LANTERN SLIDE SERIES SCENE 11 MANIA A POTU UNHINGED ALCOHOL INTOXICATION

Science Fiction Quarterly: Citizens Flee UFO Attack, Pulp Magazine Covers

Magic poster - Thurston The Great Magician

'50TH CENTURY REVOLT' (Arthur C Stangland) The Venusian solar power plant is destroyed by Terrestrials wearing 'appalaron' self- propelling space-suits Date: 1932

Magic poster - Maro Prince of Magic - Incubation A la Magique

A Spaceship blasts away from a dying planet in this Science Fiction Magazine cover Date: 1948

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1942, featuring the story ' The Daughter of Genghis Kahn' by John York Cabot. Beautiful young woman points a finger at something in front of her. Behind her a green dragon looks in the same direction. Date: 1942

The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and stars Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

Imagination: Slaves to the Metal Horde, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1943, featuring the story 'Jewels of the toad' by Frank Patton. A young pretty woman in a yellow overall and transparent mask experiment at vessels in a laboratory. Date: 1943

VERTIGO (1958), directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

Magic poster - Carter The Great - Shooting a Marked Bullet

Startling Stories - The Gods Hate Kansas by Joseph J. Millard. A tentacled alien grips a man and woman in its clutches. The man tries to defeat the monster by attacking it with a taser. In the background, several people lay in coffins, dead or unconscious. Date: 1941

'WHEN THE ATOMS FAILED' (John W Campbell Junior) A Martian invasion of Earth is repelled, but only just... Date: 1930

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1943, featuring the story 'Spawn of the Glacier' by Leroy Yerxa. A couple stares at four little green suited fairies who climed out of black floating bubbles. The young woman in a blue dress stares at the men in front of her. Date: 1943

Which of the Two, Vintage Film - Stenberg

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1950, featuring the story 'The Face beyond the veil' by Franklin Bahl. Two solders are surprised by a huge woman face which appears in a blue fountain. Date: 1950

Poster for Hero Land a spectacular entertainment based on the battlefields of World War I, Grand Central Palace, New York, 24 November-12 December 1917. The Britannia, early British tank at centre of action.

magi poster

Ice Queen, Pulp Magazine Covers

Magic poster - Thurston The Great Magician - The Wonder Show of the Universe

Witch's Whirl Waltzes, Sheet Music - E. T. Paul

DEMON PLANET (1965) -Original title: TERRORE NELLO SPAZIO-, directed by MARIO BAVA.

Fantastic Adventures: Floating Robot and Woman, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

Master of Mystery, Vintage Film Posters

The old reliable McFadden's flats everything . Theatre poster, American 1902

Back cover of a pulp fiction thriller called G-Man vs the Red X showing a sinister shadowy figure looking through a window at a riverside scene bathed in red. Date: 1936

Poster for 'Hero Land' a spectacular entertainment based on the battlefields of World War I, Grand Central Palace, New York, 24 November-12 December 1917. The Britannia, early British tank at centre of action.

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