A complete issue · 132 pages · 1957
Imaginative Tales, March 1957
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1957 — all 132 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 132 pages · 1957
This science fiction pulp magazine contains six stories. The lead novella is Alexander Blade's "The Tattooed Man" (20,000 words), about a spaceman named Joe Chattan who becomes entangled with a mysterious tattooed man of limited intellect while on the planet Rigel Two. After being shot during an alley brawl, Chattan wakes aboard a strange ship—not his own—with an unfamiliar woman caring for him. The issue also features "Suicide Run" by Mark Reinsberg, "Starship Saboteur" by Bob Silvorberg, "The Drainers" by Robert Moore Williams, "Hungry World" by Randall Garrett, and "The Man Who Hated Noise" by S. M. Tenneshaw. Additional non-fiction columns include "Jets Against Missiles!" and "Automation's Horrors." The publication includes editorial commentary and reader correspondence sections.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.