Rakked's Blog

Call me Rakked. I am a happily married man in my thirties, a Christian, a writer, and the father of two beautiful children. I mostly post about tanks, classic SF and fantasy, the World Wars, vintage ads and pin-ups, and cartoons. I love cooking, history, heavy metal, and apologetics.

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gloria grahame

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Earl Moran - "Don't Try Any Pincer Movements On Me" - 1942 Iron & Steel Products, Inc. Advertising Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - The American Pin-up Calendar Collection

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Ann Rutherford

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Project Shadowchaser II (John Eyres, 1994)

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1957 Yellow Pages Advertisement (via: eBay)

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1930's

[rakkedyman]

Tie her to the head-ensquarening machine!

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Scourge of the Blood Cult https://pulpcovers.com/scourge-of-the-blood-cult/

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"Fantastic Planet" by Peter Elson was the artist's first published work, in Science Fiction Monthly V2 N11, November 1975, after winning the Readers Painting Competition. The printed centerfold reversed the painting, but I prefer this original version.

Spherical spaceships and space stations were popular subjects in the 1970s, even before the May 1977 premiere of Star Wars.

[rakkedyman]

This Vallejo cover for Saberhagen's first Berserker book is great - it was painted in 1978, so post-A New Hope, but the spherical space station Berserkers are from the '60s!

[rakkedyman]

Happy St. George's Day! Slay dragons. Cast down the enemies of mankind and the Cross.

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That Girl https://pulpcovers.com/that-girl/

[theactioneer]

Dragon Ninja (Imagine, 1989)

[rakkedyman]

Me at 5 PM every day brother.

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book cover illustration: Tristan Elwell

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William Stout (1&3) and Dave Stevens (2&4) “Alien Worlds” (1982-1983)

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Spicy Adventure March 1935

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Dress on the Colors by Ron Lesser