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I& #39;ve spent some time doing a deep(ish) dive of old pulp covers seeing what sorts of sizey goodness I could find. I& #39;m sure most of these are ones those of you in #SizeTwitter have come across, but maybe there& #39;ll be a few you haven& #39;t.
I& #39;ll start with a lady who this lovely lady.
I& #39;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& #39;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.
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& #39;s the same artist (Earle Bergey) taking things in a different direction. This one I know has made the rounds, but there& #39;s a reason for that.
This one& #39;s from a little earlier in Bergey& #39;s career. The little men may be puppets, but who cares?
I& #39;ll end our look at Bergey with this little gem. Also fairly well circulated.
She almost looks like she& #39;s in the throes of ecstasy; he& #39;s ... freaking out cause it& #39;s a giant dude doing the grabbing?
She almost looks like she& #39;s in the throes of ecstasy; he& #39;s ... freaking out cause it& #39;s a giant dude doing the grabbing?
I& #39;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& #39;s the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
I love the way her Godiva hair falls parallel to the waterfall. And the implication that she& #39;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& #39;t just looking to draw sexy ladies in their size scenarios. They weren& #39;t above the occasional sausage fest.
Though they did tend to get less sexy when dealing with dudes.
Here& #39;s an early cover (I believe the first) for MacIsaac& #39;s "The Hothouse World".
Here& #39;s an early cover (I believe the first) for MacIsaac& #39;s "The Hothouse World".
And a later, more sexualized, cover for the same story that came out about a decade later.
I don& #39;t want to get bogged down with tagging, but I& #39;d be lying if I said the giant in this didn& #39;t remind me of @TOrialcon.
I don& #39;t want to get bogged down with tagging, but I& #39;d be lying if I said the giant in this didn& #39;t remind me of @TOrialcon.
When giant women weren& #39;t towering over planets they just loved the water.
I mean LOVED the water.
And the bath toys the US Navy sent them.
There& #39;s a dirty joke to be made about the submarine that went too deep, but I am far too respectable to make it.
I mean LOVED the water.
And the bath toys the US Navy sent them.
There& #39;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& #39;t submerged had to be weary of giant sea ladies messing with them.
I& #39;m a little unsure of whether this should count as size or not. She& #39;s not bigger than the sub, but she seems a bit bigger than normal compared to the torpedo. Or maybe that& #39;s just me. I& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;t cause I pretty much know what to expect.
On the plus side, here& #39;s a shirtless giant who& #39;s clearly the focus of the cover.
On the plus side, here& #39;s a shirtless giant who& #39;s clearly the focus of the cover.
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& #39;s standards.
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& #39;s standards.
Found a new story in my explorations. I& #39;ll leave a link, but can& #39;t give any content warning since I haven& #39;t done the reading yet.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27248/27248-h/27248-h.htm">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/272...
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27248/27248-h/27248-h.htm">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/272...
I don& #39;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& #39;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& #39;ll leave a content warning.
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& #39;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& #39;s saying something for pulp covers.
This might qualify as the most lurid image I share in this thread. And that& #39;s saying something for pulp covers.
