The Nature of your Enemy

During the Cold War, America was bent on portraying the Eastern Bloc as a grim, mysterious anti-hero that would forever destroy the American Way of Life. It was the duty of every American citizen to fight, despise or otherwise take a stand against it.

Here's a leading magazine offering a book about the dangers of Communism  -including the techniques and goals of "the world's Number One Communist", Nikita Khrushchev -the Soviet Premier of the time.

Should be entertaining reading today, when the Soviet Union is no more and the U.S. is on the brink of implosion.

"Communism", 1962

The old maxim stands firm: in the editorial world, fear sells.

Space artist needed

Another one selling "the knowledge" to get a plum job in the "High Pay Missile Industry". Drawing rockets and missiles, and other technical things.

The line art is just fantastic- legit pulp space madness. Think of The Jetsons. Guaranteed to get someone to send some money.

"Space artist", 1962
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For the entry price to get your booklet of secrets ($2 in 1962) you could buy six issues of the science magazine it was published in. Being a space-age artist is not cheap.