Planet Stories Fall Issue: Time-Techs of Kra, Warrior Woman vs Alien Robots
A newsstand browser in 1955 would have stopped cold at this explosion of color — a flame-haired woman in checkered trousers wrestling a black mechanical creature while alien robots close in behind her against a blood-red Martian sky. The composition bursts with kinetic violence and lurid glamour, classic Planet Stories bravado: exotic alien landscapes, a fiercely capable heroine, and gleaming mechanical menace converging in one breathless moment of interplanetary peril.
This is peak Planet Stories madness — a half-dressed heroine throttling a robot spider while more mechanical horrors close in under a volcanic Martian sky. It belongs on every dorm room wall ever constructed, and also possibly in a museum dedicated to the glorious excess of mid-century pulp imagination.
“STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS — PLANET Stories A.N.C. FALL 25¢ With a song in their hearts the soldiers of Mars rallied — THE GEISHA MEMORY THE TIME-TECHS of KRA A lost world novel by Max Sheridan”
