Showing posts with label Iconography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iconography. Show all posts

Friday, February 14, 2014

Pulpy Sweet Covers

More awesome covers from the 1930s pulptastic "Astounding Stories!" Critter designs are pretty spectacular and awfully original...to bad the quality of the contents rarely rises to the occasion (man, what a jerk!).





Tuesday, February 4, 2014

A Smugly Happy Robot

This robot looks like he'd be a real jerk, you know?


From "Astounding Stories", January 1931.

Monday, February 3, 2014

A Rollicking Party

Looks like fun, doesn't it?


From "Astounding Stories", December 1930.

Astounding Stories Covers

Some awesome covers from the great sci-fi pulp "Astounding Stories"!


First up, from January 1930, a man fights a beetle while some lady looks on in horror.  Is he tiny, or are the beetles huge?  WE MAY NEVER KNOW (unless you read the story).


From February 1930, a melty puddle monster menaces a prop plane and its pilot. Goopy!


And, from October 1930, a dude throttles a mostly invisible fellow, who apparently doesn't understand how guns work. STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE, indeed! 

Saturday, January 18, 2014

A Diabolical Pact

Here, courtesy of Wikipedia, is a page written in backwards Latin, supposedly codifying the agreement between Catholic Priest Urbain Grandier and a whole bunch of Demons, including Lucifer, Satan, Astaroth, and a few others.  Apparently, in exchange for his soul, Grandier would become completely irresistible to women, would have the friendship of the rich and powerful, and would himself receive more than his fair share of worldly power and pleasure.  This document was used as evidence for Grandier's diabolical powers in his trial, eventually sending him to be burned at the stake.