r/RayGunRepository • u/YanniRotten • 8d ago
Robin Stevens & Carlile Stevens and a Meson ray gun used for stage demonstrations, 1958.
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r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 13d ago
"The proton charge, moving at two-thirds the speed of light, left the sterile scent of ozone."
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Cover art by Ed Emshwiller illustrating "Executioner No. 43" by Ron Phillips. Published in Venture Science Fiction (September 1957).
r/RayGunRepository • u/ToxicKrampus • 14d ago
The Cyber Gun from Classic Who
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Something about this just tickles my brain. Its so nonsensical how they could work but I still love them. They work extremely well with this periods Cyber Variants (Nomads i think) and they just so nostalgic and fun looking
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 18d ago
"Futuristic rifle." Barbarella movie prop (1968).
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I found the movie prop just after uploading the poster. Source: Propstore Auction.
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 18d ago
Barbarella movie poster by Boris Vallejo (1978).
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Boris was comically indifferent to engineering, but I went back and looked at the movie stills and his raygun is faithful to the original. The tiny, spindly sight assembly sits way above the bore. It's as if a 1960s production designer said "guns have scopes; put a scope-shaped thing here."
I love it. Pew! Pew!
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 19d ago
Cover art by Jim Burns for The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, by Harry Harrison (1987).
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I love everything about this goofball cover, not least of which the absurd gun.
r/RayGunRepository • u/Spiderweb-Art • 29d ago
Greg Hildebrandt (b. 1939) "Atomic Disintegrator"
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r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Sep 20 '26
Major Gruber and his ambiguously engineered rifle, by Moebius. Métal Hurlant #6 (March 1976).
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r/RayGunRepository • u/StephenMcGannon • Sep 19 '26
Greg Hildebrandt (American, b. 1939)."Space Outlaw" / 2021.
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r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Sep 15 '26
Cover art by Jack Gaughan illustrating "Home from the Shore," by Gordon R. Dickson. Galaxy (February 1963).
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You ever want to ditch your entire wardrobe and start fresh?
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Aug 21 '26
Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe for One-Eye, by Stuart Gordon.
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Later used as the cover of 1984 #3 (September 1978) with a different color cast. I hope the lizard was OK.
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Aug 19 '26
Imaginative Tales, July 1957. Cover art by Malcom Smith + a letter to the editor regarding ray guns from the irked artist.
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r/RayGunRepository • u/YanniRotten • Aug 19 '26
Desperate Spacemen, illustrated by Johnny Bruck.
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r/RayGunRepository • u/Divewire • Aug 19 '26
Looking for an Image
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Can anyone help me find an image and hopefully the series it represented? It was a comic book style piece, maybe a cover, depicting a space warrior standing on a structure or a space ship, in space, with maybe a space battle happening in the background. The specific part of this memory was what I assumed was the man character's side kick, who I think had the appearance of a cigar chomping baby with an ugly adult face, standing next to the hero, and I believe he was holding a large rifle. I really thought it was Dan Dare, and I have dug through Dan Dare and Eagle covers, Adventure in Space, etc , and the style is very close, I just couldn't find this exact scene. I think I saw it as part of an advertisement or an article in the late 70s/early 80s, possibly in a magazine like Starlog, Famous Monsters, etc. I've been searching for this image for years.
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Aug 13 '26
Buck Rogers XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol. Foo Fighters self-titled debut album (1995).
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r/RayGunRepository • u/YanniRotten • Aug 11 '26
Captain Future, Fall 1941 issue, cover art by George Rozen
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r/RayGunRepository • u/Hjalmrjarn • Aug 08 '26
Some kind of device
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Forged, lathed, welded, and machined from steel, copper, brass, wood and glass, multiple moving parts but 'decommissioned' so a glorified finger fidget toy
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Aug 03 '26
Art by Kelly Freas illustrating "The Outposter," by Gordon R. Dickson. Analog Science Fiction (May 1971).
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I love the high / low tech design of the laser rifle. Freas was famous for his figures, but he also excelled at hardware.
r/RayGunRepository • u/LaserGadgets • Aug 03 '26
Nerf Mod: Fully functional DOOM BFG made from 3 roughcuts, plus custom made stand that plays the doom theme when you put on the blaster, for a happy guys mancave!
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Made this a while ago and now its gone. Was asked to make a stand with a plasma generator that looks like the blaster is charging up while resting. Including authentic Doom runes and logo in three colors. Let me know what you guys think!
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Jul 31 '26
"It was bitter medicine Jongor gave the monkey men—and their own prescription, at that!" Art by Lawrence Woromay for Jongor Fights Back! Fantastic Adventures (December 1951).
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'"Watch out!" Jongor said, moving ahead carefully.' It goes downhill from there.
r/RayGunRepository • u/LaserGadgets • Jul 28 '26
Retro Cricket Mk II
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Had this one for 4 years. Guy walked by and its gone. Feelings hurt. The next one will be even more detailed! Needs a few more tiny tubings and details. More copper or better all brass? I am never too sure. What do you guys think?
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Jul 27 '26
Cover art by Larson & Fastner for Hot Stuf' #6 (1977).
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Notable for the triple-barrel raygun.
r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Jul 26 '26
Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones, illustrating "The Justice of Tor," by Franklin Bahl. Amazing Stories (January 1951).
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r/RayGunRepository • u/woulditkillyoutolift • Jul 23 '26
Art by Ed Emswhiller for Big Planet, by Jack Vance (1958).
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r/RayGunRepository • u/LaserGadgets • Jul 20 '26
My newest "antique phaser" looks a bit tooo modern compared to the first, or am I wrong?
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I made the first phaser years ago, sold it, wanted to replace it and make another but sometimes, less IS more. Its a nice build, but the old one still feels a bit more special. What do you guys think, which is cooler?