After finding my old "brochure" drawing, I also ran into some old notebooks I kept from school between 6th and 9th grade, which were made by the Atlas paper and stationery company in 1980, and featured various science-fiction art examples in the front covers. After scanning them, I searched online, andd found out that most of them were originally front cover illustrations by German illustrator Johnny Bruck for different issues of Perry Rhodan novels. As an interesting note, I attended a German school, so I had heard of Perry Rhodan, but I never actually got to read any of those books...
This one was originally the cover art for Perry Rhodan #306, Keine Rettung für Schlachtschiff OMASO ("No salvation for battleship OMASO"), published in 1967.
This other one was featured at the front cover of Perry Rhodan #505, Die Gesiterflotte ("The Phantom Fleet"), originally published in the early 1970s.
The third one corresponds to the cover illustration for Perry Rhodan #530, Das nackte Auge ("The naked eye"), from 1971.
The next one was the cover for Perry Rhodan #610, Das Erbe der Ygullaner ("The heritage of the Ygullans"), originally published in 1973.
And this one belonged to Perry Rhodan #301, Der Göttherfresser ("The God Eater"), published in 1967.
Now this one was the cover for Perry Rhodan #531, Die Trümmerwelt ("The Debris World"), published in mid-1971.
This other one originally served as the front cover art for Perry Rhodan #617, Die Arena der Kyon ("The Arena of the Kyon"), published in 1973.
And this one was the cover of Perry Rhodan #612, Galaxis im Abgrund ("Galaxy on the edge of the abyss"), originally published in March 1973.
And this ninth one corresponds to Perry Rhodan #605, Der dynamic-Schild ("The dynamic shield"), originally published in February 1973.
Finally, this one isn't a Perry Rhodan cover illustration drawn by Johnny Bruck anymore, but instead, it's a photograph of the NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) being transported on piggyback by the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA 905), a modified Boeing 747-123, taken in 1977 during the Approach and Landing Tests carried out at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Other notebooks I found featured either duplicates of these covers or designs which didn't relate to science fiction or space exploratin at all (like, for example, the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles), so I didn't bother scanning them...
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