Infinity Science Fiction, August 1958

Infinity Science Fiction was a digest-sized pulp magazine that competed in the crowded 1950s science fiction market alongside Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This cover advertises Charles L. Fontenay's "Beauty Interrupted," alongside the teaser "She Triggered a Star-Trap." The painted cover depicts a woman's leg and hands reaching toward an unseen figure, rendered in the sensational house style of mid-century SF pulps—lurid, dynamic, and designed to arrest attention on newsstand racks. Infinity ran from 1955 to 1968, publishing stories by established and emerging writers. Like most pulp covers of the era, its artwork prioritized narrative drama and visual excitement over literal scene depiction, using color saturation and human figures to signal genre and promise adventure.