Jack and Jill magazine, October 1953. Cover art by Rae Owings.

See also Todd Franklin's image of the entire front and back covers of this issue.

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The cover of this May 1959 issue of Flying Saucers: The Magazine of Space Conquest has retained its pleasant garishness even after the passage of more than fifty-five years. The illustration, a scene from the 1950 movie Destination Moon, shows astronauts in their spacecraft during their perilous journey to and from the moon (I believe that the one fellow is actually dispensing a space sickness pill, although it looks like he's performing dental work).

Raymond A. Palmer, who authored books on flying saucers and edited Amazing Stories and Fate magazines, was also the editor of Flying Saucers.

Originally posted on Ipernity: Flying Saucers Magazine, May 1959.

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"See—flying saucers are real!"

An advertising postcard with a postmark dated July 27, 1967. Excerpts from the back of the postcard: "Extraterrestrial Spaceship. Actual photograph of a flying saucer taken by Paul Villa on June 16, 1963, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Learn: Why spaceships and their crews from other worlds are visiting our planet…. Subscribe to: Flying Saucers International…. Send for free brochure and saucer book to: Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. (AFSCA)…."

The Flying Saucers Are Real was also the title of a popular paperback book written by Donald Keyhoe and published by Fawcett Publications in 1950.

Originally posted on Ipernity: Flying Saucers Are Real!

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