Invasion of the Plant Men – Fantastic Adventures, September 1949
Published in September 1949, as American science fiction was riding a postwar boom in pulp magazines, this cover for Fantastic Adventures depicts a tense jungle standoff between two human protagonists and a group of eerily humanoid green plant-men. A rugged man in red aims a rifle from behind a boulder while a blonde woman clutches a pistol at his side. The grey-green alien invaders advance menacingly from a forest clearing, their near-human forms making them all the more unsettling.
Grey-green humanoid plant invaders from outer space menacing a buxom blonde and a square-jawed hero with a rifle — it's peak late-40s pulp wish fulfillment. The tagline 'Weird Creatures From Outer Space Attack the Earth!' leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination.
“THRILLING TALES OF SUPER SCIENCE fantastic ADVENTURES SEPTEMBER 25¢ INVASION of the PLANT MEN by BERKELEY LIVINGSTON RD CREATURES FROM OUTER SPACE ATTACK THE EARTH!”
