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.

[pulpcovers]

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

[oldschoolfrp]

"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.

[pulpcovers]

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

[theactioneer]

Dragon Ninja (Imagine, 1989)

[rakkedyman]

Me at 5 PM every day brother.

[queenoliviaiii]

book cover illustration: Tristan Elwell

[rakkedyman]

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[tomoleary]

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

[pulpsandcomics2]

Spicy Adventure March 1935

[pulpsandcomics2]

Dress on the Colors by Ron Lesser

[pulpsandcomics2]

Thundarr

[oldschoolfrp]

Bronze Age encounter (Cover art by "Grabuge," Graal magazine 18, July-August 1989). This issue included scenarios and new material for RuneQuest, AD&D, Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Marvel Super Heroes, Animonde, and Cry Havoc: Siege, plus a mini board game of Spartacus' slave rebellion across Italy.

[vintagepromotions]

'Announcing the big 3 for thirst!'

Advertisement for Stokely's Ping, Pong and Pi-Li fruit juice drinks (1959).

[pulpsandcomics2]

1962 Mars Attacks trading cards

[rakkedyman]

America can, should, must, and will nuke Mars.

[pulpsandcomics2]

Ron Wilber

[70sscifiart]

Stephen Fabian's unused cover art for L. Sprague de Camp's unpublished novel The Bronze God of Rhodes, 1983.

[the1920sinpictures]

1923 Photo caption "A Modern Flapper in an Old-Fashioned Gown" by Arthur Kales. From Vamps and Flappers of the 1910s, 1920s, FB.