Planet Stories 'Goddess of the Moon' Cover – Slimy Alien Horde Attacks, c.1940
A golden-helmeted Moon Goddess in a glittering green bikini raises her spear defiantly atop a lunar rampart — the quintessential pulp femme triumphant. Below her, a horde of slimy green alien creatures surges forward in a chaotic tide, clashing with space-suited Earthmen armed with ray guns. A pink rocket blazes across the cratered moonscape in the background. This Planet Stories cover delivers maximum pulp spectacle: imperiled beauty, alien invasion, and interplanetary combat packed into every inch of the canvas.
The cover vision is deliriously ambitious — a scantily clad lunar deity, a seething green alien mob, multiple space heroes, and a rocket ship crammed into a single explosive composition. It epitomizes Fiction House's all-out commitment to maximum spectacle per square inch.
“PLANET STORIES STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS — THE UNIVERSE OF FUTURE CENTURIES 20c GODDESS OF THE MOON THE CRATERS SPEW A SLIMY GREEN ARMY BENT ON SMASHING THE MOON GODDESS AND HER EARTHMAN PROTECTOR. by JOHN MURRAY REYNOLDS MARTIAN TERROR by ED EARL REPP THE GIRL FROM INFINITE SMALLNESS by RAY CUMMINGS ALSO NELSON S. BOND CARL SELWYN ALEXANDER M. PHILLIPS FICTION HOUSE MAGAZINES”
