Stanley Mullen

Born in Colorado Springs on June 20, 1911, Stanley Mullen was an American artist, writer, and publisher. He studied writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder and trained in drawing, painting, and lithography at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, where he was accepted as a professional member in 1937.

Mullen is best remembered for science fiction and fantasy stories published from the late 1940s into the 1950s. Reference sources describe him as an artist and museum curator as well as a pulp author, noting that he wrote more than thirty stories, many of them space opera, for magazines including Planet Stories. He also wrote novels such as Kinsmen of the Dragon and was involved with Gorgon Press and Shasta Publishers.

He died in 1974. Though he is not among the best-known names of his era, his career captures the lively overlap between visual art, small-press publishing, and magazine science fiction in the middle of the twentieth century.