Emsh's Red Alien Menace — Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 — art by Ed Emshwiller (Emsh) — Galaxy Science Fiction — 1960s
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Emsh's Red Alien Menace — Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963

A grotesque red-skinned alien with wild crimson hair and bulging mechanical eyepiece looms in the foreground, grinning with menace over a scene of human peril — one man stands alert near a sleek silver rocket while another lies unconscious at his feet on an alien landscape. The composition radiates cold-blooded villainy against a murky green-hued world, perfectly capturing the paranoid tension of Golden Age sci-fi.

Category: Magazine Cover
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Decade: 1960s
Country: United States
Coolness: 8/10

A leering red devil from beyond the stars stands over your fallen crewmate — and that rocket won't save you now! Buy this issue or face the same fate.

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Galaxy DECEMBER • 1963 50c A Great New Science-Fiction Novel THE STAR KING by JACK VANCE Author of THE DRAGON MASTERS NO GREAT MAGIC by FRITZ LEIBER THE BIG PAT BOOM by DAMON KNIGHT EMSH

Public domain. This vintage illustration is free of known copyright restrictions — free to download, share, and reuse for any purpose.

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