Harpers Bazaar (1965)

Paul McCartney and Jean Shrimpton in Harpers Bazaar April 1965
Photos by Richard Avedon Mercury suit by NASA

Man on the Moon - A Daily Mail Special (1969)

Took myself on a little day trip to London today and stumbled across this down Brick Lane for a bargain £5.  And, given that we are very nearly the same age as each other, its actually in amazing condition!

This is a souvenirs magazine to celebrate the, as was then, impending moon landing.  I've only read a fraction of it so far but its fascinating to read about it before it had actually happened and also of note is the fact that it very nearly all paintings and drawing inside because obviously at this point there were no  photographs of the event.

Its also a bit of a double win for me because I'm a big fan of Neil Ardley from his children's futurology book series, World of Tomorrow.  If I haven't yet blogged the Out into Space edition  then I'll correct that as soon as is possible because that also has some very nice art inside

Steve

TV-Times Spetember 21 - 27 (1968)

I stumbled over this image a couple of days ago of the TV listing magazine  TV-Times from September 1968.  From what I can gather the cover is not a specific image from a TV show but it caught my eye because to me that looks like one of the Windak suits, which featured in a variety of places through out the 60s and 70s.  Ill update the post with more details should I discover them.

 

 

Steve

Man on the Moon - Daily Mirror special suppliment (1969)

 

Stumbled across this by default of researching one of its authors.  I don't have a specific named artist for the cover but Graphics and Design are attributed to John C Smith.  That's quite a nice wrap around cover

Steve

Advertising Space - Gallery 1

Do you see what I did there?

 

OK, time to clear the files a bit.  I've been holding onto these images for years waiting to date them but lets throw it out to you people out there.  If you know, or know how I can find out what year these images are from then feel free to pop a comment in below and I'll update accordingly.

 

 (1965)

 

 (1970)

 

 Smirnoff  Vodka (1967)

Its been suggested that this is the same space helmet as one featured in You Only Live Twice and on study I would have to agree.  Its also the same year as that James Bond film and given the smart dressed chap and the girl I'm now wonder if this whole advert is trying to capture the Bond thing, officially or not.  Thanks "Unknown" for spotting that

 

Twinkies TV advert (1970)

Galaxy Magazine, March Vol. 38, No. 1 (1977)

Galaxy Magazine, March 1977 (Vol. 38, No. 1)  Cover art by Stephen Fabian, illustrating part 3 of Gateway by Frederik Pohl.

And here it is in close up and rotated

Look Familiar?

Yes and so it should.  "Cheeky" Stephan didn't bank on the future development of the internet and the fact that people like us post images like that.  Still those spacewomen are very attractive and every artist deserves his muse.

Thanks for the keen-eyed find, Michel Van.


Steve

Space Face - Real Girl by Tussy (1969)

Cosmetics Advert from 1969


Steve

TV Times - July 17th 1969

Steve

Look and Learn (1968)

Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster, a long running science fiction comic strip - The Trigan Empire, adaptations of famous works of literature into comic form, as well as serialized works of fiction such as The First Men in the Moon.

Steve

Starblazer - Space Fiction Adventure in Pictures - A Large Gallery (1979 onwards)

Starblazer - Space Fiction Adventure in Pictures was a British small-format comics anthology in black and white published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. There were 281 issues in all with the first published in April 1979 and the last published in January 1991.

 

 

 

If you would like to see even more covers of a none space suited variety then go here:

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/starblazer.html

 

...its a very cool blog full of all kinds of wonderful put together with love.

Steve

Penthouse - October 1978 - Lust in Space (1978)

So....

We're looking at a Penthouse photo shoot from 1978, when everyone was jumping on the sci-fi/Star Wars bandwagon.  The name of the feature is Lust in Space.  The photo are by Earl Miller and they happen to feature the  Men into Space helmet.

 This gentleman below appears to be adrift when...

 ...he stumbles over this very attractive alien lady and her twin.  And then stuff happens!

...which I'm not going to talk about here.

....or show you either.

All of theses images and many more are from the Blog; The Seduction of Venus, which is definitely for grown ups only and is very good if you like that sort of thing*

Anyway to see more, so much more, go to:

http://theseductionofvenus.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/lust-in-space-by-earl-miller.html?zx=9c7bb3c731e5b0e

Enjoy
Steve

* Erotic artworks and photographs from throughout history

Look-In #41 (1981)

Long running British comic / magazine + Much loved English band: Madness =  the above cover image!

 

Beyond that I can't explain why the band members are in space suits or what the logic or reasoning was behind this 1981 cover. But its a nice and odd image to start November off with.  Be back with more soon.

 

 

Steve

Women in Space - Les Edwards (1980's)

Commissioned by TV listings magazine TV-Times in the 1980's.  Sexist?  well possibly but then you could argue that so is this....

...but no one ever has.

 

 

Steve

Spacemen Magazine #8 (1964)

Steve

Future Life #17 (1980)

Probably the best dolphin in a spacesuit picture ever.  A big hand to artist Rick Sternbach

 

 

Steve

3001 - A Ford Transit Van (1979)

6 wheeled, gull-wing doored Ford Transit van of the future from somewhere around about 1979. The star of this picture is undoubtedly the van and not the driver of the Stardust Rover although his presence justifies the coverage in this blog.

The van was commissioned by the Ford Motor Company for use at shows and the images were used in various magazines of the day and of the type which might excite van and custom car enthusiast.

Time has not been kind to the van and its story can be viewed over at the Rods 'n' Sods forum

 

http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/whatever-happened/3001-transit-50626

 

along with a lot more images and information.

 

 

Steve

The Best Of Omni Science Fiction No:3 (1982)

From the pages of The Best Of Omni Science Fiction No:3, a lovely piece of art by Don Maitz.

This was used to illustrate The Test by Stanislaw Lem

Steve

Life Magazine (1961)

When we looked at The Road to Hong Kong (1962) not too many posts back, blog follower; beamjockey, made comment about the story and images published in the 10th of November 1961 issues of Life magazine.  Being a good sort, he emailed me a scan of the page 46 and here it is including some close ups.  Its a great little story and adds hugely to the original post.  Thanks again, sir.

Brilliant stuff.

 

 

Steve