Armed Spaceman on Alien World – Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Nov 1959
A bearded, red-suited spaceman charges across a pale alien landscape, ray-rifle leveled and ready to fire — something just spooked him, or he's the hunter closing in for the kill. His bulbous glass helmet and twin backpack tanks mark him as a lone explorer far from help. The muted yellow-green terrain stretches empty behind him, amplifying the sense of isolation and imminent danger on this desolate extraterrestrial world.
A gloriously rugged spacefarer with a beard and a blaster — this is exactly the kind of cover that made a ten-year-old beg their dad for a quarter at the newsstand! Not completely unhinged, but that dynamic charging pose and lurid red suit against the sickly alien ground? Pure Atomic Age gold.
“Book-Length Novel by Robert Bloch Sneak Preview AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NOVEMBER 35¢ NOVEMBER, 1959 35¢ AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION STORIES VOL. 33 NO. 11 SCIENCE AND SUPERMAN: An Inquiry by Poul Anderson”
