Planet Stories Sep 1951

Allen Gustav Anderson

Planet Stories, September 1952 cover by Herman Vestal

"The Monster Maker" by Ray Bradbury Planet Stories, Spring 1944 Illustration by Joseph Doolin

5 Random Pulps

Planet Stories March, 1951 issue. Cover by Allen Anderson.

The cover story, Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett, was an Eric John Stark episode, his final appearance in a magazine until Brackett revived the character in the 1970s. The aforementioned Black Amazon, featured so prominently on the cover, begins as Stark's antagonist but ends up an ally.

The attitudes of the time did not allow for Stark (the guy with the sword) to be depicted as Brackett described him. Stark had Caucasian features, but his skin was almost pitch black from having been raised on the surface of Mercury with its close proximity to the Sun.

Planet Stories, March 1953 Art by Allen Anderson

Ed Emshwiller - "Mars Minus Bisha" by Leigh Brackett, Planet Stories January 1954

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Witch of the Demon Seas - Planet Stories, January 1951. Artist uncredited.

Great covers from Planet Stories featuring empowering women.

If you knew about the artists behind those, please let me know!

Planet Stories Mar 1953

Allen Gustav Anderson

Planet Stories (Spring 1947) Cover by Allen Gustav Anderson

Planet Stories, Spring 1944 Cover by Graham Ingels

PLANET STORIES #1 (Fiction House, 1939)

After The Leopard Women of Venus.. .let's switch to the Golden Amazons...

Art: uncredited, but signed "A Drake" -- no, not Arnold Drake of Doom Patrol infamy! -- it's Stanley ' Stan' Albert Drake, who painted this cover when he was 18. He sold his first illustrations to Pulp mags when he was 16! He enlisted in '41 and ended up in a camouflage unit painting and disguising runways! After WW2, he joined an advertising agency, but continued illustrating Pulp covers... by the 40s and 50s his work was incredible.

Planet Stories - Summer 1949