A complete issue · 117 pages · 1956
Nebula Science Fiction, Number 17
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1956 — all 117 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 117 pages · 1956
A British science-fiction pulp magazine featuring a painted cover of a ringed space station in orbit above an alien landscape. Two sleek spacecraft approach from above while a desolate terrain of rocky outcrops stretches below, lit by an enormous planet in the distance. Published bi-monthly at two shillings, Nebula competed in Britain's crowded pulp market by promising serious speculative fiction. The magazine's bold sans-serif typography and vivid chromatic palette—characteristic of 1950s digest-magazine design—advertised adventure to readers seeking imaginative escape. Nebula was voted Britain's top science-fiction magazine, reflecting the genre's growing popularity as postwar technological optimism fueled demand for futures both utopian and hazardous.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.