Rayguns & Rocketships
Title | Rayguns & Rocketships PDF eBook |
Author | Rian Hughes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-02-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781912740338 |
Rayguns and rockets! Spacesuited heroes caught in the tentacles of evil insectoid aliens! Who could resist such wonders? Science-fiction paperbacks exploded over the 1940s and '50s literary landscape with the force of an alien gamma bomb. Titles such as Rodent Mutation, The Human Bat vs The Robot Gangster, Dawn of the Mutants and Mushroom Men from Mars appeared from fly-by-night publishers making the most of the end of post-war paper rationing. They were brash and seductive - for around a shilling the future was yours. The stories were often conceived around a pre-commissioned cover and a title suggested by the publisher, and the writers were paid by the word, and sometimes not paid at all. Titles were knocked out at a key-pounding pace, sometimes over a weekend, by authors now lost to literary history (plus a few professionals who could spot an opportunity) who were forced to write under pseudonyms like Ray Cosmic, Steve Future, Vector Magroon or Vargo Statten. Despite the tight deadlines and poor pay, the books' cover artists still managed to produce works of multi-hued, brain-bending brilliance, and collected here is an overview of their output during an unparalleled period of brash optimism and experimentation in publishing.
Ray Guns, Robots and Rocket Ships
Title | Ray Guns, Robots and Rocket Ships PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Weiss |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2004-11-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780972463126 |
History and description of all U.S. science-fiction movie serials 1930-1953. 246 stills, full CRST and production credits, detailed synopses.
Ray Guns & Rocket Ships
Title | Ray Guns & Rocket Ships PDF eBook |
Author | University of Otago. Library. Special Collections |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Science fiction |
ISBN |
Ray Guns and Rocket Ships
Title | Ray Guns and Rocket Ships PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fantasy literature |
ISBN |
Blast Off!
Title | Blast Off! PDF eBook |
Author | S. Mark Young |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9781569715765 |
Chronicles the golden era of space toys, an age of imagination unbound by the more mundane realities of space travel ushered in by Sputnik and the Space Age. This book unearths the nearly lost histories of these space treasures and the companies that created them.
Ray Gun
Title | Ray Gun PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr. |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2005-04-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780756789237 |
Toy ray guns conjure a wealth of meanings & associations. Their outlandish shapes & fanciful colors evoke fond childhood memories of Buck Rogers & Captain Video, of backyard spaceships that blasted off for the endless reaches of space. Toy ray guns are intended to protect us from our deepest fears of the dark unknown. The first toy ray guns were produced in the 1930s, part of the Buck Rogers craze that swept the U.S. This volume provides an intro. to the development of these toys, with vivid color photos of ray guns & their ephemera, such as ads, movie posters, comics, badges & buttons, up to the 1970s, when the toy space guns made in America, Europe & Japan were replaced by high-tech electronic ray guns made in China.
Rocket Jocks - Blast Into the Future
Title | Rocket Jocks - Blast Into the Future PDF eBook |
Author | Colin D Speirs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2019-01-31 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 1902500172 |
Role play in the B&W movies and shorts of the 1930s, before CGI was ever thought of, Rocket ships and rubber monster suits.?