Planet Stories Spring 1945 Cover – Leigh Brackett's Vanishing Venusians
Surprisingly kinetic for wartime pulp, this cover deploys a bare-chested hero pistol-whipping a green-skinned alien while a chained woman in a draped toga watches from the right — all rendered with confident, almost theatrical swagger. The background teases a full-scale alien army under colorful banners. Leigh Brackett's Venus-set novella gets top billing alongside Albert De Pina's plague tale, making this a rare double-feature of planetary romance at its most gloriously overwrought.
A man punching a green alien while a chained woman in a toga watches approvingly is essentially the Platonic ideal of pulp cover art. Leigh Brackett presumably approved.
“PLANET STORIES SPRING 1945 20c STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS IN THE UNIVERSE OF FUTURE CENTURIES An Amazing Novelet The VANISHING VENUSIANS By Leigh Brackett The Silver Plague FROM NOWHERE CAME THE HORROR OF THE GLITTERING DEATH... A NOVELET OF TIMES TO COME — By ALBERT DE PINA FICTION HOUSE MAGAZINES”
