Planet Stories Spring 1940 – Goddess of the Moon Battle Cover Art
A quintessential pulp sci-fi cover embodying the genre's warrior-goddess trope at full throttle: a statuesque, scandalously clad blonde heroine in green scale armor dominates the foreground, cape billowing, while her earthman protector blasts away at a swarming horde of slimy green alien attackers on a crater-pocked lunar surface. A pink rocket ship glows in the murky background. The composition is frenzied, multi-layered, and unapologetically lurid — every square inch pulses with menace and melodrama.
An absolute eruption of pulp excess: a nearly-naked moon goddess, a swarming green alien army, a blazing ray gun, and a rocket ship all compete for attention in a single chaotic frame. Every narrative beat of classic planetary romance is crammed into one gloriously overwrought composition.
“PLANET STORIES STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS — THE UNIVERSE OF FUTURE CENTURIES 20c GODDESS OF THE MOON THE CRATERS SPEW A SLIMY GREEN ARMY BENT ON SMASHING THE MOON GODDESS AND HER EARTHMAN PROTECTOR by JOHN MURRAY REYNOLDS MARTIAN TERROR by ED EARL REPP THE GIRL FROM INFINITE SMALLNESS by RAY CUMMINGS ALSO NELSON S. BOND CARL SELWYN ALEXANDER M. PHILLIPS”
