Startling Stories Nov 1942 – Rocket Attack on the Moon Cover

Rendered in bold gouache with a sweeping astronomical drama, this cover deploys rich teal and gold tones to dramatize a pair of sleek red rocketships firing their engines at a crater-pocked Moon, with Earth looming in the lower foreground. The illustration's technique is classically pulp — thick, confident brushwork, a deep starfield background, and dynamic diagonal composition that pulls the eye from Earth to Moon to rocket exhaust. It is a quintessential wartime Golden Age space-opera image, vivid and kinetically charged.