Planet Stories Sept 1952 – 'The Star Plunderer' Poul Anderson Cover — Planet Stories — 1950s
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Planet Stories Sept 1952 – 'The Star Plunderer' Poul Anderson Cover

On a jagged alien world bathed in orange and ochre, a dark-haired space warrior in a low-cut yellow tunic and green cloak fires her ray-gun point-blank into a snarling, frog-faced alien creature. Her pose is explosive — legs kicking, necklace catching the light — while background figures clash in a rocky canyon. This is interplanetary adventure at full throttle: slavers, mutiny, and empire born in chaos across the stars.

Category: Magazine Cover
Publication: Planet Stories
Source: Internet Archive
Publisher: Fiction House
Decade: 1950s
Country: United States
Coolness: 9/10

A sizzling space vixen blasts a bug-eyed alien at point-blank range while empires crumble in the background — Planet Stories delivers the galaxy's hottest trouble and the dame who owns it!

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SEPT. 25¢ STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS— PLANET stories TRADE MARK REG. A.N.C. Empires start oddly. One grew from mutiny in the hold of a Gorzuni slave-ship The STAR PLUNDERER Novelet by POUL ANDERSON Easy enough to land on Onzar IV. But Thane had to mortgage the Allied Worlds to stay alive on the terror-planet. . . . EVIL out of ONZAR Novel of the Galactic Wars by MARK GANES Also Edwin James Charles Saphro Robt. Moore Williams

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