Planet Stories Cover: Woman Rides Winged Dragon Over Alien Monsters, 1940s
A fierce, scantily-clad woman cracks a whip to control a massive winged, serpentine dragon-beast while smaller alien creatures scramble beneath her feet on an alien world. Red-shelled crustacean monsters swarm the foreground as a green ape-like alien cowers nearby. The scene crackles with pulp energy — she is clearly dominating these extraterrestrial horrors through sheer will, commanding the chaos of an alien landscape beneath a vivid blue sky.
Oh my stars — a half-dressed woman WHIP-TAMING a winged dragon while red lobster-aliens and a green ape-thing writhe at her feet?! This is peak Fiction House chaos and I am absolutely losing my mind over it. This cover is a perfect ten-cent fever dream wrapped in twenty cents of glory.
“PLANET STORIES STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS — THE UNIVERSE OF FUTURE CENTURIES THE LORELEI DEATH by NELSON S. BOND THIEF OF MARS by HENRY HASSE MONSTER OF THE ASTEROID by RAY CUMMINGS 20c FICTION HOUSE MAGAZINES CONNELL • NORMAN • MOSKOWITZ • F. B. LONG”
