From the exhibition
Mundo Sellado
· 1961

A Spanish science-fiction pulp cover featuring a woman's face emerging from a stylized planetary landscape. Her geometric headdress, marked with a red diamond, frames angular features rendered in vivid orange and red. Behind her, futuristic spires and rockets pierce a starfield while figures labor across a barren terrain below. The cover announces Vincent Flaming as author, positioning the work within the tradition of mid-century Spanish-language adventure magazines. Pulp covers like this one—with their airbrush techniques, impossible geometries, and populated futures—sold serialized fiction to working-class readers and directly influenced the visual language that comic books would adopt.
Public domain (copyright not renewed), restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain