Planet Stories Vol.4 No.9 — Green Alien Menaces Human in Deep Space
This cover graces Planet Stories Volume 4, Number 9, a fixture of pulp science fiction publishing under Fiction House. A hulking green-skinned alien warrior in gold armor looms over a fallen human man, gripping a futuristic weapon with menace. A distressed woman lies to the left. The chaotic scene unfolds against a vivid red-orange cosmic backdrop, encapsulating the magazine's signature brand of interplanetary adventure, alien peril, and pulp melodrama at full throttle.
This cover is closer to an exploding space station than anything with a library card. A muscular green alien dominates a fallen human while a woman swoons — every square inch radiates unhinged interplanetary melodrama at maximum pulp voltage.
“FIRST BI-MONTHLY ISSUE — PLANET stories CARGO TO CALLISTO by JAY DREXEL Another famous STAR-MOUSE story by FREDERIC BROWN A man and a woman survivors of chaos—alone in dead-star vastness... THE LAST TWO ALIVE! A Novel of Exploding Suns by ALFRED COPPEL Also ALLEN K. LANG • JOHN D. McDONALD • C. H. LIDDELL”
