A complete issue · 133 pages · 1958
Imaginative Tales, Vol. 5, No. 3
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1958 — all 133 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 133 pages · 1958
This May 1958 issue of Imaginative Tales features science fiction stories alongside instructional mail-order courses. The main content includes: "Giant Killer," a 20,000-word novel by Dwight V. Swain about unexplained human gigantism spreading across the solar system colonies; "Gravity vs Space Flight," a 3,500-word science article by Henry Bott addressing fundamental physics for the space-travel age; "Ghost World," a 4,500-word short story by A. Bertram Chandler; "Refueling Station" by Rog Phillips (5,000 words); "The Fire Dancers"; and "Unknown Soldier of Space," a 3,000-word story by Robert Silverberg. The editorial discusses the editor's new telescope and advocates for science features alongside fiction. The OCR-garbled text prevents full description of the remaining stories' plots.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.