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

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

Amazing Stories vol. 28, no. 5 (November 1954)

This is excellent. I would have snapped up this magazine based on the cover alone. I wonder if they chickened out of making those structures straightforward crosses for fear of offending christians?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v28n05_1954-11_LennyS-cape1736

Galaxy vol. 1, no. 1 - 1950 - World Editions (October 1950)

That is a building up there on the top of the rocks on the left, right? This is a nicely almost-primitive style of illustration, I really like it, it's different from most of the stuff we see here. The shadows and the gloomy figures remind me of De Chirico.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v01n01_-_1950_-_World_Editions

Worlds of IF (September 1963)

Those creatures are too goofy to be scary, with their tiny rhino horns and Leela eyes. Also they seem to be merely curious. But I think the guy with the stylish man-purse has made the right decision.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1963-09_IF

Worlds of IF (June 1956)

It's a nice image but it's pretty devoid of any narrative content.

Is there any reason for those red-and-white rectangles? Did we use to paint rockets like that?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1956-06_IF_modified

New Worlds vol. 18, no. 54 (December 1956)

I cannot believe that this, three guys in gym wear hanging around the Giant Spherical Brain Container doing minor maintenance, is the most exciting scene in this magazine.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_054v18_1956-12

Amazing Stories vol. 21, no. 3 (March 1947)

Ooh an early use of the word "Titan" to mean "huge creature". I have watched every ep of "Attack On Titan" and I couldn't explain it to you if you held a gun to my head. Who are the good guys again? The Eldians or the Marleyspoons? Don't try to explain, I'm resigned to not knowing.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v21n03_1947-03_cape1736

Worlds of IF (October 1971)

Man, this is ugly. Apologies to whoever put this together but yeah. Don't love it. Is that a flamethrower?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1971-10_IF

Amazing Stories vol. 14, no. 10 (October 1940)

That is one goofy-ass robot but also goofy is how those guys are risking ricochets by firing directly at it while she's clutched in its goofy robot arms.

Clearly this story was written by a robot. Robot Moore Williams to be precise.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v14n10_1940-10_cape1736