Thread by @MrTaedis, I've spent some time doing a deep(ish) dive of old pulp covers [...]

I've spent some time doing a deep(ish) dive of old pulp covers seeing what sorts of sizey goodness I could find. I'm sure most of these are ones those of you in #SizeTwitter have come across, but maybe there'll be a few you haven't.

I'll start with a lady who this lovely lady.

And follow up with a similar scene from the same artist. Based on the boob-to-planet ratio I think she's a hair smaller than the previous woman.

Also, "boob-to-planet ratio" is not the right term, but as soon as I thought it I knew I had to use it.

And here's the same artist (Earle Bergey) taking things in a different direction. This one I know has made the rounds, but there's a reason for that.

This one's from a little earlier in Bergey's career. The little men may be puppets, but who cares?

I'll end our look at Bergey with this little gem. Also fairly well circulated.

She almost looks like she's in the throes of ecstasy; he's ... freaking out cause it's a giant dude doing the grabbing?

I'm a little unclear about the scale in this one, but who cares?

I love the way her Godiva hair falls parallel to the waterfall. And the implication that she's the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Another Lilliput story. Another beautiful giant woman. Another well shared pulp cover.

Pulp artists weren't just looking to draw sexy ladies in their size scenarios. They weren't above the occasional sausage fest.

Though they did tend to get less sexy when dealing with dudes.

Here's an early cover (I believe the first) for MacIsaac's "The Hothouse World".

And a later, more sexualized, cover for the same story that came out about a decade later.

I don't want to get bogged down with tagging, but I'd be lying if I said the giant in this didn't remind me of @TOrialcon.

When giant women weren't towering over planets they just loved the water.

I mean LOVED the water.

And the bath toys the US Navy sent them.

There's a dirty joke to be made about the submarine that went too deep, but I am far too respectable to make it.

Even subs that hadn't submerged had to be weary of giant sea ladies messing with them.

I'm a little unsure of whether this should count as size or not. She's not bigger than the sub, but she seems a bit bigger than normal compared to the torpedo. Or maybe that's just me. I'll leave it to others to make that call.

This one blurs the line between giant person and monster a bit, but the expression is human enough I'll add it to the list.

Moving back to dry, if frozen, land we find this lovely cover. Possibly my. favorite from this round of searching. I need to find a better image; the others I've come across are much more washed out than this.

"Beyond The Vanishing Point" is one of those size classics I probably should read at one point, but haven't cause I pretty much know what to expect.

On the plus side, here's a shirtless giant who's clearly the focus of the cover.

I know it's symbolic size, but it's still beautiful.

CW: Blood and violence.

If anyone ever tells you shrunken stories were all peaches and cream before the internet show them this. Damn, this thing is graphic even by today's standards.

Found a new story in my explorations. I'll leave a link, but can't give any content warning since I haven't done the reading yet.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27248/27248-h/27248-h.htm

I don't know what the fuck was going on in this story, but I salute the people behind it. You were letting your freak flag fly before I was a glint in my father's eye.

Another cover I know has made the rounds.

CW: Old time racism

The sabertooth fangs and the pointy ears make me think evil genie instead of full on racial caricature, but it could be both so I'll leave a content warning.

CW: Threat of violence, yellow peril racism

This might qualify as the most lurid image I share in this thread. And that's saying something for pulp covers.

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