Today in pulp... I look back at the wonderful pulp art of Johnny Bruck! #TuesdayThoughts
Johnny Bruck was one of the most prolific illustrators in science fiction. He painted over 6,000 covers during his career, as well as many interior illustrations. The vast majority were for one title: Perry Rhodan.
Johnny Bruck was born in hamburg in 1921 and spent his younger years in England learning his craft, before travelling around the world.
Today in pulp... let me introduce you to Mark Hardin: The Penetrator! #ThursdayMotivation
Mark Hardin is a one-man strike force against corruption. Orphaned at the age of four he was brought up mean and hungry. He learned his fighting skills in Vietnam before returning to an America gone bad.
Actually The Penetrator is one of a long list of vigilante pulp heroes thrown up in the 1970s counter-counterculture backlash, along with The Destroyer, The Iceman and The Marksman to name but a few.
Today in pulp I look back at that staple of sci-fi: the ray gun!
This thread will involve a mad professor from Cleveland and Archimedes #JustSaying
Directed-energy weapons have a long history. If historical sources are true Archimedes* developed one in 212 B.C. - a parabolic mirror that focussed the sun's burning rays on enemy ships attacking Syracuse.
(*told you!)
If it did happen* then it's more likely there were soldiers holding up dozens of mirrors, focussing the beams to a point right where the target was. The effect would be more powerful, but of course much harder to achieve.