Spacemen Magazine #8 (1964)

Steve

Spacemen Magazine #2 (1961)

The cover of Spacemen Magazine issue 2 with art by one Bruce Minney, of whome I know nothing.

The spaceman pictured here is sporting a Gemini mission suit, I think, and although they did turn up in movies and TV later on, I would have thought the reference material for this were direct from NASA.

Steve

Spacemen Magazine #7 (1963)

Issue 7 of Warren's Spacemen Magazine.  This is the second of only two issues published in that year and unusually has a photo cover rather that the prefered fully painted artwork.

The still is clearly from; 12 To the Moon. Which is technically the films second cover and seems a rather lackluster movie to be blessed with such exposure.

Steve

Spacemen Magazine #1 (1961)

This is the cover to Spacemen Magazine #1 which was put out by Warren Publishing in 1961.

They had been doing quite well with their Famous Monsters of Filmland, magazine and thought a similar venture dealing with Sci-fi films might prove equally popular.  It didn’t especially and the whole thing ran to only eight issues and one yearbook, although due to a very erratic publishing schedule they somehow managed to get all the way to 1965 before calling it a day.

The cover art is an early example by Basil Gogos, whose work on Famous Monsters is horrifically beautiful.... but that's for somebody else to blog about.

Reference for the painting seems to be from 12 To the Moon, a bit of B-movie fluff released the previous year. 

Steve