Planet Stories Fall 1945 – Bubble Dwellers Cover by Parkhurst
More kinetic and flesh-forward than contemporaneous Planet Stories covers by Alexander Leydenfrost, this Parkhurst piece captures the magazine's signature formula: a scantily clad woman in gold and green lunging toward the viewer while a square-jawed hero fires a ray weapon behind her. A crowd of silhouetted figures surges in the smoky background, and a menacing alien machine looms at bottom center. The composition is all forward momentum and explosive light, emblematic of Fiction House's aggressive newsstand aesthetic.
A half-dressed woman lunging forward, a man blasting a ray gun, a mob of alien silhouettes, and a mysterious machine — all crammed into one explosive composition. This cover would have leapt off a 1945 newsstand like a grenade.
“PLANET STORIES FALL 1945 20c STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS – THE UNIVERSE OF FUTURE [STORIES] The BUBBLE DWELLERS by ROSS ROCKLYNNE JUGGERNAUT of SPACE by RAY CUMMINGS PARKHURST”
