A Planet for Texas, by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, cover art by by Arthur Renshaw 1958, original art below.
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Ellington Fantasy
Hugo Monenegro and his orchestra covering Duke Ellington songs. The cover of Caravan is especially haunting.
Santa Baby, 1958
Joyce Nizzari in a photo shoot dressed as “Santa”. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its December 1958, in the following year she was one of the Wild Women of Wongo.
Gift Wrapping
Christmas Pin-up girl by Bill Randal, 1958
Cry Terror
Cry Terror by Andrew L. Stone, 1958. Cover by Robert Maguire
The Spider, 1958
Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider. (IMDb.com)
Screaming Skull, 1958
Narrator: The Screaming Skull is a motion picture that reaches its climax in shocking horror. Its impact is so terrifying that it may have an unforeseen affect. It may kill you. Therefore its producers feel they must secure free burial services to anyone who dies of fright while seeing The Screaming Skull!
Love Under Hypnosis
Vamp #26, Love under Hypnosis by Mike Splane.
Soviet Cities on the Moon?
Science Digest, Feb, 1958
We advertise our failures, but the Soviets don’t. For all we know, Moscow’s scientists and engineers did try to shoot a rocket to the moon last November 7, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Communist seizure of power in Russia, but failed.
You will recall that for a while, during that weekend, some mysterious radio signals were heard from outer space. They were not accountable by the two Sputniks, and soon they faded out.
We may surmise that, in their try for the moon, the Soviet shooting team took a wrong aim, and that the rocket they fired is now either orbiting around the sun or is lost in space…
G.I. Combat, Issue 66
G.I Combat, #66, November, 1958. Featuring The Eagle of Easy Company!
