Planet Stories 1942 – Serpent Monster Attacks Woman on Alien World
In the bold Fiction House cover style — characterized by vivid contrasting colors, dynamic figure-in-peril compositions, and luridly rendered alien creatures — a massive green serpentine monster with a grotesque fanged head coils around a screaming woman in a red dress on an alien planetary surface. In the background, an armored soldier fires a weapon at additional creatures under a deep violet sky dotted with distant moons, perfectly encapsulating Planet Stories' promise of wild interplanetary adventure.
This is pure unhinged Fiction House mayhem — closer to a fever dream than even a typical Startling Stories cover. The combination of a coiling snake-beast, screaming pinup, armed soldier, and multiple moons crammed into one composition cranks the pulp dial to near maximum.
“PLANET STORIES STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS — THE UNIVERSE OF FUTURE CENTURIES FICTION HOUSE MAGAZINES 20c THE THING OF VENUS by WILBUR S. PEACOCK THE LAST MARTIAN by RAYMOND VAN HOUTON BLACK FRIAR OF THE FLAME Novelet by ISAAC ASIMOV BOND • KUMMER • F. BROWN • CUMMINGS • BRACKETT”
