Planet Stories Jan 1954 – Warrior Woman vs Aliens, Ray Bradbury Issue
Raw pulp adventure energy crackles off this cover — a scantily-clad green-haired warrior woman leaps through glowing energy rings, wielding a futuristic weapon above a battlefield strewn with fallen green-skinned aliens and armored soldiers. The fiery red Martian landscape stretches behind her, dotted with sleek rockets and crumbling alien ruins. Every element screams planetary romance at full throttle: danger, spectacle, and barely-contained chaos rendered in vivid gouache.
A green-haired midriff-baring warrior woman wielding a multi-barreled space pistol while leaping through glowing energy halos over a pile of dying green monsters is essentially the Platonic ideal of pulp excess. The fact that Ray Bradbury's 'A Sound of Thunder' is tucked quietly at the bottom makes this cover even more gloriously unhinged by contrast.
“STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS— PLANET Stories A.N.C. JAN. 25¢ A SOUND OF THUNDER by RAY BRADBURY MARS MINUS BISHA novelet by LEIGH BRACKETT”
