Read All About It: 'The Man From Planet X'

EXTRA! EXTRA! INVASION FROM SPACE - The Man from Planet X, 1951 (USA) promotional news sheet. (image via wrong side of the art)

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If you have time for a movie, you can view The Man From Planet X below.


The Man from Planet X by MargaliMorwentari

What Curiosity Can't Show Us About Mars

The cities are underground!


Original Cinecolor theatrical trailer for the 1951 Monogram Pictures' space adventure, FLIGHT TO MARS, starring Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman and Arthur Franz.

Protective Wear For The Well-Dressed Interplanetary Traveler

Future Space Suits
Science Fiction Plus magazine, May 1953
Art by Frank R. Paul

Front Cover Artwork by Frank R. Paul

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Raining Rita

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by  Raining Rita

Way Cool Space Illustration Imagery via Dreams of Space

These images are just a sample of the neat bunch you'll find on Dreams of Space two part series covering the Nestlé 'chocolate stamp' book, The Conquest of Space, c.1962. The book was available for purchase and was designed so that kids could fill in the illustration spots with collectable stamps found with their Nestlé chocolate bars. For more images and info check out Part 1 and Part 2.

The Future According To Bürgle

Klaus Bürgle - an illustrator and visionary extraordinaire from Stuttgart, Germany. In the 1950s and '60s he created a rich visual world of the future. The exploration of space was certainly his favorite subject, but many of his images also show futuristic cities and transportation. Bürgle specialized in technical and scientific issues and created cover and interior illustrations for a variety of popular science books and magazines. His contributions to the large-format fold-out picture youth annual, The New Universe, were especially popular.

One of the coolest aspects of Bürgle's work were the cutaways in his illustrations. Below are some examples of the future according to Bürgle.

(Images via Retro-Futurismus)

I Like Dreaming

It started like this:

The front page of the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda after the 1957 launch of world's first satellite: Sputnik.

...and now it's like this:

A Beehive of Satellites: The debris objects shown in the images are an artist's impression based on actual density data. Image Credit: European Space Agency via NASA

...we're still dreaming of this:

To The Other Planets, Prague 1962. Illustrated by František Škoda. (via josefskrhola).

I like dreaming.