Vintage Science Fiction Covers

A series of colorful magazine covers featuring imaginative sci-fi scenarios, including space battles, robots, and alien encounters, from the mid-20th century.

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

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1949, featuring the story 'The Octopus of Space' by Alexander Blade. A man watches another man in a wet suite fighting a huge octopus out of the round window of a submarine. Date: 1949

Science Fiction Adventures, February 1953, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

'MASTER OF THE ASTEROID' (Clark Ashton-Smith) A stranded astronaut is honoured as a god when he crashes on a distant planet Date: 1932

Warriors of Other Worlds, 1940's Visions of the Future

The front cover of Startling Stories magazine, showing an American spaceman emerging from a spaceship while under attack from three Viking warriors. They attack him with bows, arrows and swords. He defends himself with a ray gun. Behind, a man and woman hide from the conflict in the doorway of the spaceship. The lead story is entitled: "A Yank at Valhalla" by Edmond Hamilton. Date: 1941

Fantastic Adventures - The Mermaid of Maracot Deep by Alexander Blade. A giant mermaid sits at the bottom of the ocean and holds up a tiny submarine in wonder. Date: 1949

Newmann's wonderful spirit mysteries, Magic & Mesmer

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1948, featuring the story 'Dimensions unlimeted' by Berkeley Livingston. A dark skinned warrior protects a young beautiful and royal looking woman. Date: 1948

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1948, featuring the story 'The black Arrow ' by Jamieson Wood. Huge black snake struggles in the water and destroys boats of American Indian. Date: 1948

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

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

'SEA SERPENTS DO EXIST !' Date: 1950

'Invasion of the Micro-Men' (Richard Shaver) Date: 1946

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, July 1948, featuring the story 'Queen of the Panther World' by Berkely Livingston. Amazon rides a black panther fighting a green dragon with a spea. Date: 1948

'THE DUAL WORLD' (Arthur K Barnes) An encounter with the 'Emotionals' on Venus Date: 1938

Startling Stories - When New York Vanished by Henry Kuttner. A large robotic alien insect is imprisoned under a glass dome and is being experimented on by two male scientists. One scientist aims and blasts a ray gun, directing it towards the brain of the creature. Date: 1940

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1947, featuring the story 'The Secret of Elena's Tomb' by Karl Tanzler von Cosel. A young woman in long white dress stands on a tomb with the inscription Elena while a man kneels in front of her looking surprised at the appearance. Date: 1947

Original Film Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET. English Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET. Film Director: FRED M. WILCOX. Year: 1956.

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1951, featuring the story 'Secret of the flaming ring' by P. F. Costello. A young beautiful woman and a futuristic looking warrior are surrounded by flames. Date: 1951

'THE EGGS FROM TANGANYIKA' (Curt Siodmak) A warship is attacked by a monster tsetse fly Date: 1926

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

THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE (1967).

'AN ADVENTURE ON EROS' (J Harvey Haggard) The space travellers are caught in a mysterious force. Date: 1931

Bed Bath & Beyond, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

TORA! TORA! TORA! (1970), directed by RICHARD FLEISCHER.

LOS AVENTUREROS (1954), directed by FERNANDO MENDEZ.

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1947, featuring the story 'Princess of the Sea' by Don Wilcox. Beautiful Amazon with red cloak rides a white horse through the waves of the sea. Date: 1947

'THE PASSING STAR' (Isaac R Nathansen) Poor New York, it's constantly victimised by science fiction writers : here the villain is a galactic near-miss. Date: 1930

Swivel-o-Matic Astronaut, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

'THIA OF THE DRYLANDS' (Harl Vincent) A secret service man from Earth navigates his 'ronsal' along a street in a Martian city Date: 1932

Science Fiction: Captured by the Red Giant, Pulp Magazine Covers

THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE (1961), directed by JOSE QUINTERO.

Frankenstein, Front cover. Illustrations, Book covers. 1958-09. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein , Adaptations, Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) , Comic books, strips, etc.

Man From Yesterday, Pulp Magazine Covers

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1945, featuring the story 'The Devil's Pigs' by Don Wilcox. A young beautiful woman looks softly at a strange creature. Date: 1945

Startling Stories - Strangers on the Heights by Manly Wade Wellman. A man holds a ray gun to the head of a scared skeletal being. The man uses his free hand to comfort the woman beside him, who is holding an illuminated cross. Date: 1944

'THE ROBOT ALIENS' (Eando Binder) The Earth is invaded by Martian robots who hope to succeed where H G Wells's Martians failed... Date: 1935

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1941, featuring the story 'The living Dead ' by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A tiger with pincers fights a weird looking red lion while a woman climb up a tree to escapes. Date: 1941

The front cover of Startling Stories magazine, showing a man and a woman (in skimpy gold costume) being attacked by three red ape-like monsters with fearsome teeth! As one ape clutches the woman, the man attacks it with a long chain. The lead story is entitled: "Shadow over Mars" by Leigh Brackett. Date: 1944

'THE DOUBLE MINDS' (John W Campbell junior) The Earthpeople fight the shleath of Ganymede. Date: 1937

Starcrossed by Ken Barr

Whom the Gods Would Slayó, Pulp Magazine Covers

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

Startling Stories - The Water World by Oscar J. Friend. A man and woman battle amphibian aliens. The man blasts a ray gun at the creatures (who are shooting back with their own weapons). Another man has been imprisoned by the aliens and is tied up to a board in the background. Date: 1941

Man versus robot - a dramatic moment in Arthur Tofte's science fiction story, 'Revolt of the Robots'. Date: 1939

Hollywood, California - A 'World Premiere' for a movie feature film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. circa 1920s

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1941, featuring the story 'The Return of Circe' by Nat Schachner. A knight holds a sword and shield and looks at a beautiful woman in long red dress who swings a whip. Date: 1941

Poster for Hero Land, a spectacular entertainment based on the battlefields of the First World War, Grand Central Palace, New York, November 24, 1917. The Britannia, formerly British tank in the center of the action.

Science Fantasy: Robot with Human Friends, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

'SCIENCE ISLAND' (Eando Binder) 'A cold-blooded Scientific Napoleon with the Brain of a Genius and a Body of Metal threatens to Dominate Mankind' Date: 1939

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), directed by STANLEY KUBRICK.

'MONSTERS OF NEPTUNE' (Henrik Dahl Juve) Visitors to Neptune encounter powerful creatures who trample on their spacecraft Date: 1930

Battery Operated Television Spaceman, Robots, ray guns & rocket ships

LESLIE NIELSEN and ANNE FRANCIS in FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), directed by FRED M. WILCOX.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), directed by STANLEY KUBRICK.

Science Fiction Quarterly: Setting Explosives, Pulp Magazine Covers

TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003) -Original title: TOKYO GODDOFAZAZU-, directed by SATOSHI KON.

Film poster for George Lucas film 'Star Wars' an American epic space/science fiction film series created by George Lucas.

'LOST IN TIME' (Arthur Leo Zagat) Time travel to a city of the future. Date: 1937

DICK TRACY (1990), directed by WARREN BEATTY.

Metropolis.1927 German expressionist epic science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang

Original Film Title: PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. English Title: PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Film Director: ED WOOD. Year: 1959.

GRAVE ROBBERS FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) -Original title: PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE-, directed by ED WOOD.

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1942, featuring the story 'The Daughter of Thor' by Edmond Hamilton. A young beautiful woman with long blond hair sits on a black throne. Next to her a white lion roars at two men. Both wear black fur coats, one holds a modern pistol which is directed at the young woman. The other man wear a viking helmet and a shield. Date: 1942

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). 'ÁMarino mercante, raza de hŽroes, salud!' (Merchant sailor, race of heroes, hail!). Poster by Ortega edited in Valencia by the CNT. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Salamanca. Archivo Histrico Nacional.

Love-bite or is he drinking her blood The line between demon lover and vampire is a narrow one... Date: 1949

Artwork: "The Professionals" Artist: Stan Jones. Country: Unknown

YOR, THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE (1983), directed by ADRIAN DAWSON.

TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (1977), directed by ROBERT ALDRICH.

AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD (1972) -Original title: AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES-, directed by WERNER HERZOG.

African American Cartoon circa 1890

Comet: Beautiful Woman in Rocket Window, Pulp Magazine Covers

SOLDIER (1998), directed by PAUL W. S. ANDERSON. Copyright: Editorial use only. No merchandising or book covers. This is a publicly distributed handout. Access rights only, no license of copyright provided. Only to be reproduced in conjunction with promotion of this film.

Continent Makers, Pulp Magazine Covers

'CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD' (L Manning and Fletcher Pratt) 'people who have given up their consciousness to live the false life of the Adventure Machines...' Date: 1930

'WHERE DO THEY COME FROM WHAT DO THEY WANT ' Date: 1968

Science Fiction Quarterly: Attack of the Flying City, Pulp Magazine Covers

THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), directed by D. W. GRIFFITH.

Pleasure Ball, 1940's Visions of the Future

Comet: Giant Space Gun, Pulp Magazine Covers

GOJIRA (1984), directed by KOJI HASHIMOTO.

THE GAUNTLET (1977), directed by CLINT EASTWOOD.

'MAROONED IN ANDROMEDA' (Clark Ashton-Smith) The animal-eating flora of Andromeda are beautiful to look at but not much fun on closer acquaintance Date: 1930

Two men in spacesuits board a new red spaceship through a round metal hatch in the depths of space Date: 1931

Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1941, featuring the story 'The Floating Robot' by David Wright O'brien. Beautiful woman in white dress looks terrified at a floating robot with an old microphone in his hand. Date: 1941

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951), directed by ROBERT WISE.

'THE MIND MAGNET' (Paul Ernst) The duel between the two alien races Date: 1937

Prometheus, 1940's Visions of the Future

Pilgrimage to Mecca: Sells Brothers Circus, Circus & Clowns

La Guerre dans Mars (The War on Mars), by Arnould Galopin. The evil Zapatos attack the benevolent Megacephales. From Aventures Fantastiques d'un Jeune Parisien. Date: 1908

FLESH GORDON (1974), directed by MICHAEL BENVENISTE and HOWARD ZIEHM.

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935), directed by JAMES WHALE.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), directed by STANLEY KUBRICK.

Robin Hood, Book Cover

FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), directed by FRED M. WILCOX.

INGRID BERGMAN in STRÓMBOLI (1950), directed by ROBERTO ROSSELLINI.

COMORES - 1976: shows Good Little Henry, series Fairy Tales COMORES - CIRCA 1976: A stamp printed in Comores shows Good Little Henry, series Fairy Tales, circa 1976 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 6048118

PHASE IV (1974), directed by SAUL BASS. Copyright: Editorial use only. No merchandising or book covers. This is a publicly distributed handout. Access rights only, no license of copyright provided. Only to be reproduced in conjunction with promotion of this film.

DESPERTAFERRO (1990), directed by JORGE AMOROS.

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1996), directed by HENRY SELICK.

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