PopKulture's photos with the keyword: robot

This amazing pulp title from Avon only lasted two issues, but in addition to the standard sci-fi fare, each issue featured 32 pages of color comics! A great insert making them true cross-over collectibles, for pulp and comic collectors alike. Out of this World Adventures issue No. 1 - July 1950.

Look out! This fully-articulated clankster has a full head of steam - catching him is going to be more difficult than it looks. Scholastic Books TX 863 - The Runaway Robot by Lester Del Rey, 1966. Cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff.

That's one bad-ass robot! Ace D-99 - Conquest of the Space Sea by Robert Moore Williams, 1955. Cover art by Ed Valigursky.

Hint to industrial designers of the future: if humans and robots are to interact on a wide scale, can you please make them less menacing in appearance at least? Ace D-223 - The 13th Immortal by Robert Silverberg, 1957.

What more could you ask of a magazine cover?? This rare, Depression-era one-shot was published in 1933 by Graphic Arts Corp. of Minneapolis, and sports a wonderful cover painting by Norman Saunders.

This is third in a trio of pulp magazines that I was lucky enough to purchase at the recent Windy City paper show for the ridiculously low cover price - in this case, a whole 25 cents. One of the exhibitors had a spinner rack full of similar magazines from the 1930's thru the 50's. A sign atop the rack read something to the effect: "Old pulps - cover price. Limit 3. No dealers please." Well, my friend Larry and I walked past it several times, as did so many others, all of us who noticed the sign thinking it had to be a joke. An aisle or two removed, we looked at each other and wondered if he was serious, so we decided to go back and check. When we got back there, one browser was putting back a really nice issue of Planet Stories, which Larry quickly snatched up along with two copies of Argosy. I found five sci-fi pulps and stressed for about five minutes which ones would comprise my final trio. The exhibitor was even adamant about making change for a dollar, digging in his pocket for fifty cents in change. I think he just wanted to have a little fun with it all and wanted to get the magazines into the hands of the collectors who would enjoy them most. All I can say is thanks, Randy. It was a generous experiment and great fun. Famous Fantastic Mysteries - June 1950 issue. A fantastically-terrifying science-fiction classic of a cover by Norman Saunders.

Ace D-283 - City by Clifford Simak, 1958.