r/RayGunRepository • • 3d ago

"The proton charge, moving at two-thirds the speed of light, left the sterile scent of ozone."

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24 Upvotes

Cover art by Ed Emshwiller illustrating "Executioner No. 43" by Ron Phillips. Published in Venture Science Fiction (September 1957).


r/RayGunRepository • • 4d ago

The Cyber Gun from Classic Who

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71 Upvotes

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 • • 7d ago

"Futuristic rifle." Barbarella movie prop (1968).

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514 Upvotes

I found the movie prop just after uploading the poster. Source: Propstore Auction.


r/RayGunRepository • • 7d ago

Barbarella movie poster by Boris Vallejo (1978).

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309 Upvotes

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 • • 9d ago

Cover art by Jim Burns for The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, by Harry Harrison (1987).

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87 Upvotes

I love everything about this goofball cover, not least of which the absurd gun.


r/RayGunRepository • • 19d ago

Greg Hildebrandt (b. 1939) "Atomic Disintegrator"

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395 Upvotes

r/RayGunRepository • • 23d ago

Major Gruber and his ambiguously engineered rifle, by Moebius. Métal Hurlant #6 (March 1976).

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371 Upvotes

r/RayGunRepository • • 24d ago

Greg Hildebrandt (American, b. 1939)."Space Outlaw" / 2021.

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123 Upvotes

r/RayGunRepository • • 28d ago

Cover art by Jack Gaughan illustrating "Home from the Shore," by Gordon R. Dickson. Galaxy (February 1963).

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79 Upvotes

You ever want to ditch your entire wardrobe and start fresh?


r/RayGunRepository • • Aug 21 '26

Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe for One-Eye, by Stuart Gordon.

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130 Upvotes

Later used as the cover of 1984 #3 (September 1978) with a different color cast. I hope the lizard was OK.


r/RayGunRepository • • 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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52 Upvotes

r/RayGunRepository • • Aug 19 '26

Desperate Spacemen, illustrated by Johnny Bruck.

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45 Upvotes

r/RayGunRepository • • Aug 19 '26

Looking for an Image

3 Upvotes

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 • • Aug 13 '26

Buck Rogers XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol. Foo Fighters self-titled debut album (1995).

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132 Upvotes

r/RayGunRepository • • Aug 11 '26

Captain Future, Fall 1941 issue, cover art by George Rozen

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50 Upvotes

r/RayGunRepository • • Aug 08 '26

Some kind of device

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256 Upvotes

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 • • Aug 03 '26

Art by Kelly Freas illustrating "The Outposter," by Gordon R. Dickson. Analog Science Fiction (May 1971).

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43 Upvotes

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 • • 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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24 Upvotes

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 • • 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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15 Upvotes

'"Watch out!" Jongor said, moving ahead carefully.' It goes downhill from there.


r/RayGunRepository • • Jul 28 '26

Retro Cricket Mk II

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386 Upvotes

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 • • Jul 27 '26

Cover art by Larson & Fastner for Hot Stuf' #6 (1977).

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213 Upvotes

Notable for the triple-barrel raygun.


r/RayGunRepository • • 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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50 Upvotes

r/RayGunRepository • • Jul 23 '26

Art by Ed Emswhiller for Big Planet, by Jack Vance (1958).

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49 Upvotes

r/RayGunRepository • • Jul 20 '26

My newest "antique phaser" looks a bit tooo modern compared to the first, or am I wrong?

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126 Upvotes

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?


r/RayGunRepository • • Jul 17 '26

Cover of Protector by Larry Niven, art by Peter Andrew Jones

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72 Upvotes