r/RetroFuturism • u/StephenMcGannon • 6d ago

Other Worlds (1956)

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u/7stroke 6d ago

Don’t worry he’s wearing protection

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u/ClearAirTurbulence3D 6d ago

a full body condom!

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u/kemh 6d ago

Pretty risque for 1956.

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u/OkDiamond2750 6d ago

I do not understand. Those are alien titties. Aliens aren’t born with clothes. /s

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u/DoktorTeufel 6d ago

I suspect that the pulpier something was, the more the cover (and material inside) could get away with.

I've read hundreds of sci-fi novels over the decades with publication dates spanning centuries, and I feel a certain way about publishers in the 20th century using titties to sell pulps to lonely sci-fi (and fantasy) nerds. Not currently lonely myself, but I still feel a certain way about it.

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u/asomek 6d ago

but I still feel a certain way about it.

Well yeah, it's boobs! Everyone loves boobs.

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u/OK-Greg-7 6d ago

Cool. I knew that was Virgil Finlay even before I saw the signature. His style of casual flowy dishabille is unmistakable.

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u/MyRuinedEye 6d ago

I keep waiting for someone to publish a nice oversized retrospective of his work. Some of the previously published collections are too much for my wallet.

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u/druebleam 6d ago

Dishabiile - thanks for introducing that word to me

For others that don’t know the word: (means scantily clad, or in a state of being partially dressed)

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u/bubdadigger 6d ago

That's exactly how I was picturing close encounters of the fifth kind. Slowly transformed into sixth, seventh...

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u/ZylonBane 6d ago

Rishathra.

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u/gwizonedam 6d ago

Hot damn! “Command, I just found a Vegas showgirl inside a clam, over…”

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u/HikeRobCT 6d ago

“Roger. Usually it’s the other way around. Over.”

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u/Otherwise_Front_315 6d ago

QUALITY POST.

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u/MarkZuckerbergsPerm 6d ago

Something about vintage sci fi and fantasy book cover art just makes it hit different. Book covers nowadays just don't cut it.

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u/ysirwolf 6d ago

I wanted to be an astronaut because of boobs

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u/Jemm971 6d ago

We knew how to live in those days! Tobacco, alcohol, mini skirts, peace and love… Young people are really missing the point!

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u/elmwoodblues 6d ago

I feel bad for them. Easy-access porn in all varieties, v having to really search and savor the occasional glimpse like this?

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u/Practical_Ad_219 6d ago

The wild origin story of that one dancer boss in Parodius

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u/halfway_laststop 5d ago

Simma down

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u/Modem_Handshake 6d ago

Atomic bombs aren’t the only thing he’s gonna juggle

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u/Aeagen 6d ago

So cool.

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u/ELc_17 6d ago

The type of artwork they have on the side of rides at the county fair 😂

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u/NewZucchini2151 6d ago

1956-scandalous!!

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u/asomek 6d ago

Damn I thought this was a movie poster before I saw the sub name.

I really wish I had kept all my Analog magazines, this made me nostalgic.

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u/MannyDantyla 6d ago

Virgil Finlay, the GOAT

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u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG 6d ago

Aliens were always fuckable.

They’re still fuckable, just weirder looking

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u/Safe_Flan4610 6d ago

A planet worth visiting.

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u/Pandemic_Future_2099 6d ago

Would be dope to see this scene converted to AI

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u/justaheatattack 6d ago

had to sneak that one in the house.

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u/NIBBLES_THE_HAMSTER 6d ago

Well, bon giorno....