Thrilling Wonder Stories June 1950 — Space Siren & Gunman Cover Art
A blast of hot pink dominates this classic pulp cover, wrapped around a voluptuous woman in a skimpy golden-trimmed space costume and winged helmet, her expression alert and defiant. Behind her, a square-jawed spaceman in a green flight suit clutches a headset and aims a ray gun toward an unseen threat, all framed by the riveted steel interior of a spacecraft cockpit. The composition is pure Golden Age pulp theater — danger, glamour, and retro-futurist hardware packed into every inch.
Bergey's signature brass-bra heroine in full effect — every square inch radiates pulp energy, from the gleaming gold costume trim to the tense gunman and lurking space threat. The contrast of pin-up glamour against cold riveted steel is quintessential late-1940s/early-1950s pulp maximalism.
“THRILLING WONDER STORIES JUNE 25¢ Sunday is 3,000 Years Away a novelet of the future By Raymond F. Jones No Hiding Place a space salvage novelet By Cleve Cartmill A THRILLING PUBLICATION Coffins to Mars an interplanetary novelet By Raymond Z. Gallun”
