Astounding Surprises on the Frontiers of Tomorrow

I feel like one person saw this and came up with Terminator and another saw it and came up with Mad Men. Also, I want that wallpaper.

Fantastic Universe

1955

from Retrospace

Planet of the Knob Heads

Why? Why do they want human women so very badly? Robots, aliens, creatures from black lagoons, they all want those Earthly babes.

Cover of Science Fiction Magazine

1939, illustrator Frank R. Paul

from Ski-Ffy

Turned On To Jesus in California

This is not, in fact, a groovy underground rag out of San Francisco. It is, in fact, a pseudogroovy, anti-drug rag done by a preacher in Texas. Be careful, kids: the propaganda pusher can take many forms.

Brian Ruud's "Scenes from the Trip Beyond"

1971

from Feed Your Head

Frisky

Orgies used to be so much wackier.

Rogue

1968

from Vintage Girlie Mags

Depression Era Shark and Octopus Death Battle

I call shenanigans.

Modern Mechanix Magazine

1933

from Modern Mechanix Blog

Super Bugger Camper

Wait, what? I fuckin want one.

Dune Buggys and Hot VWs

1976

from Cover Browser

Anatomy of a Beatnik

Naked Twister, anyone?

Scamp Magazine Vol. 6, No. 1

1962

from Vintage Girlie Mags

Reefer Queen

If I owned a bar, I would paint one whole wall with this image.

Current Detective Magazine

1945

from Schaffer Library of Drug Policy

with gusto

Three of the elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it all back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

[Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins]

French erotic magazine Paris Plaisirs

1932

from Pulp International

Beware Bootleg Meat

I knew they issued soldiers cigarettes. I just didn't know that the army issued singing monkeys.

Collier's

1943

from New York Public Library

HE PLAYED WITH DOLLS

This woman, climbing a space ladder in her cocktail dress, has awesome horrorface. Also, I dig her earrings.

Amazing Stories Magazine

1952

from Luminist

Erotic pain seems unusually thrilling to drug-sodden senses.

"Photos Posed by Professional Models." These are not real drug addicts, people. Do not be alarmed.

Click Photo Parade

1938

from Museum of Drugs

sharp.

Nothing deep on this one, it just made me laugh.

Computer Gaming World Issue Number: 3.1

1983

from CGW Museum

Click on it and check out the illustrations in the word Drag. Very cool.

Drag Cartoons
1966
from MC Art Webzine

Not the Flintstones

I can think of a lot of ways to describe a place where flower-wearing nymphs sit in trees to avoid being eaten by mutant T Rexes, but I don't think science is involved.

Science Stories Magazine
1953
from Magazine Covers

Cling to Physical Culture

Physical culture certainly seems shocking!

Magazine Cover
1903
from Cover Browser

Rugged Brute Force

Those dirty bikers, always stopping to... lick their old ladies' backs?

Cycle Orgy Magazine
1969 (natch)
from Bad Mags

Toothbrushes have been Modernized

I don't think you could physically cross toothbrushes like this, but I really like how it looks.

Dr. West's ad in Saturday Evening Post
1929
from Duke University Library

Shocking

"Come on, let's go electrocute some sharks!" Wait, what?

Science and Invention Magazine
1920, illustrator Howard Brown
from MagazineArt.org

Thigh Grab

Now that is one deliberate handful.

See For Men
1962
from Cover Browser