New Worlds vol. 22, no. 66 (December 1957)
This is a weird one. Not sure what the science fiction content is exactly but those people in regular clothing seem to be threatened by that glowing cylinder, although their eyelines tell me that's not what they're looking at.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_066v22_1957-12
Astounding vol. 54, no. 3 (November 1954)
At first I thought this was a giant but then I wasn't sure. Are those pants prison pants? Has he escaped from prison and got tangled in a broken roller coaster? Does whatever he's doing spell doom for those people riding the coaster in the background?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v54n03_1954-11_cape1736
Astounding vol. 42, no. 2 (October 1948)
No real story here that we can make out, except for what looks like a crashed space ship lower left there. But it's a terrific image. I like the fact that his impractical suit has a kind of futuristic scoop neck and his belt has an uncomfortable rectangular object stuffed into it.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v42n02_1948-10_cape1736
Worlds of IF (October 1958)
This one really tells a story, doesn't it. Love the dust and small rocks kicked up by the, I assume, suddenly-opened crevasse on the moon.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1958-10_IF
Worlds of IF (October 1958)
This one really tells a story, doesn't it. Love the dust and small rocks kicked up by the, I assume, suddenly-opened crevasse on the moon.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1958-10_IF
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Astounding vol. 25, no. 4 SLiV (June 1940)
That cannot be safe. Or, I don't know, it's a futuristic motorbike with only one wheel, maybe it doesn't need two hands on the handlebars.
I like the moody lighting and the grimness of the whole thing.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v25n04_1940-06_SLiV
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New Worlds vol. 2, no. 05 (1949)
Nice sense of movement here, strong, unusual colours. What exactly is in the bottom right corner next to that person watching?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_005v02_1949
Creepy no. 91 (1977)
This is immediately recognisable as a Frazetta, isn't it? One of his signature voluptuous women but there's no way to see her as sexy, she's terrifying.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-091
Worlds of IF (September 1974)
Wild colours, cool alien. Would it intrigue me enough to buy the magazine, I'm going to say no, but maybe I'd open it to get an idea of the story.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1974-09-10_IF_modified
Vampirella no. 32 (1974)
This is a new Vampirella to me. Somewhere there's a list of all the women who modelled for the character, someone look it up and get back to me.
Presumably the reason she's clutching melty-face James Bond here is he's a victim of "the curse that rots flesh from the bones of men".
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warren-vampirella-032
Amazing Stories vol. 5, no. 1 (April 1930)
That building off in the distance is the US Capitol, is that right? And Professor Slug is explaining, from the seat of his completely illogical airplane which could never fly, where he comes from?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v05n01_1930-04_Missing_ifcibcbc
Amazing Stories vol. 20, no. 3 (June 1946)
This is almost comically homoerotic, is it just me? Also rather impractical. If you're going to harness muscular young men to your alien space-plough, maybe use an actual harness, not skinny little ropes.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v20n03_1946-06_cape1736
Amazing Stories vol. 27, no. 6 (August 1953)
I really feel the exhaustion of that unsuspecting guy and his mule. It's midday, going by the sun, maybe he's on his lunch break/siesta? The last thing he needs is to be ambushed by a shiny robot with a truly creepy protruding eye … thing.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v27n06_1953-08-09
Fantastic Adventures vol. 8, no. 1 (February 1946)
This is the kind of truly wild content which started me on this journey in the first place. Cat/bat guy with lovingly-detailed abdominal muscles and a glowy thing embedded in its arm! But with a kind of sad pleading expression!
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v08n01_1946-02_cape1736
Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 1, no. 6 (March 1940)
This is wildly trippy, if I'd had to guess I would have put this in the 70s, what with the sexiness and her wild coral (?) hair. That vehicle in the distance looks much more like a plane than a sub, right?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v01_n06_1940-03.Munsey_cape1736_edit
