One-Eyed Alien Queen Attacks Astronaut, Super-Science Fiction April 1958
What makes this cover remarkable is the brazen gender inversion: a savage, dominant female alien — horned helmet, single cyclopean eye, fur-and-jewel bikini — gleefully menaces a helpless male astronaut tumbling helplessly in zero gravity. Far from the passive alien temptress common to the era, this creature is the aggressor, grinning with predatory delight. Lurid jungle-planet colors, exotic body markings, and a dangling cosmic weapon complete an image of gloriously unhinged pulp excess.
A one-eyed horned woman in a fur bikini defeating a spaceman while grinning maniacally is precisely the kind of cover that made parents across America deeply concerned about their children's reading habits. Mission accomplished.
“SUPER-SCIENCE FICTION APRIL 35¢ IND ALL THE TROUBLES OF THE WORLD by Issac Asimov PLANET OF PARISITES by Calvin M. Knox ALL-PURPOSE ROBOT by Jay Wallace”
