Comet Stories May 1941 – Disc Spacecraft Battle Over Alien Landscape
This cover of Comet Stories (May 1941, edited by Orlin Tremaine) blazes with pulp energy: a massive red disc-shaped spacecraft banks hard through a lurid green-and-yellow sky, its circular hull studded with portholes and engine pods, while explosive blasts erupt below across a surreal alien terrain. The composition is kinetic and bold, embodying the 'super time and space' promise of the magazine's tagline. Stories by Frank Belknap Long, Eando Binder, and J. Harvey Haggard appear inside.
This cover is cranked well past 'exciting airshow' and firmly into 'exploding space station' territory — a crimson flying saucer banking at full throttle over a hellish alien surface while the ground erupts in garish chemical fire. Peak early-40s pulp spectacle.
“MAY 1941 20c COMET STF STORIES OF SUPER TIME AND SPACE Locked in Ice Caverns on Neptune in ICE PLANET by Carl Selwyn STF ERELICTS OF URANUS by J. Harvey Haggard STF THE FACTS OF LIFE by P. Schuyler Miller STF SKY TRAP by Frank Belknap Long STF WE ARE ONE by Eando Binder STF WHEN TIME ROLLED BACK by Ed Earl Repp STF EDITED BY ORLIN TREMAINE”
