Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 10, no. 4 (April 1949)

I'm all cool with her being some kind of pure Aryan goddess who commands "primitive" men to fight each other, par for the course.

What I can't get over is her bra is silver on one side and gold on the other.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v10n04_1949-04_unz.org

Fantastic Adventures vol. 9, no. 7 (November 1947)

I suppose the figure out in front is portrayed as being invulnerable, though it would be more clear if we saw the bullet bouncing off, right? Him just smirking isn't quite enough for me, although the giant version of him is smirking at Olympic level.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v09n07_1947-11_unz.org

Amazing Stories vol. 30, no. 12 (December 1956)

They are in control, not being saved, for a change. The fact that they're dressed in, what, cheerleader uniforms(?), doesn't detract. They're saving him from a sinking submarine, at a wild guess? And he has someone or something he wants to go back and save? An Enigma machine! IYKYK.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v30n12_1956-12_cape1736_fixed

Amazing Stories vol. 3, no. 4 1928 7 (July 1928)

It's curious that this scary fireball isn't shooting straight toward him, it's on a looping spiral path. Somehow that makes it less scary? If I had to guess I'd say this was happening on an airship? Please read the story and report back.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v03n04_1928-07

Worlds of IF (November 1966)

I wrote in the Alt text they're fighting, but where's the evidence? They could be about to make sweet robot love!

Weird that Mac App was a writer—but SF is about the future. If there are writers called F. Acebook or T. Witter we're going to need to investigate further.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1966-11_IF

New Worlds vol. 22, no. 65 (November 1957)

That yellow thing is a living creature, right? It's some kind of alien which has grown in, or infiltrated that sterile machine? Or was it trapped/imprisoned in it and it's broken out? Wait whose side are we on? Yellow thing or red space guys?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_065v22_1957-11

Worlds of IF (May 1961)

These guys are all on their way to clichéd office jobs with their clichéd props like briefcases and newspapers, and they even have clichéd wives waving goodbye to them.

I don't quite know how they're all going to fit in that autogyro-hover-thing which is presumably their bus.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1961-05_IF

Astounding vol. 25, no. 5 (July 1940)

I can't make out exactly what's going on behind them, there's a dome? A fishbowl?

Interesting representation of dark-skinned people for 1940 but you'd have to read the story to see if it was related to/analogous to race in the human sense.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v25n05_1940-07_dtsg0318

Amazing Stories vol. 15, no. 5 (May 1941)

I'm terrified of spiders, but luckily this thing doesn't really look like a spider. As is often the case with these things, she looks weirdly calm. Or maybe she's poisoned like Frodo.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v15n05_1941-05_cape1736

Creepy no. 98 (1978)

Love the concept, love the monster. It's "The Purple Rose Of Cairo" but with a frog-eyed, lizard-scaled, multi-fanged and -clawed monster as the leading man.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-098

Thrilling Wonder Stories vol. 42, no. 1 (April 1953)

Yet again, a woman trapped in a tube or capsule. It's a theme of these images and someone should be writing a PhD thesis on it.

I love the composition, how it has a distinct foreground, middle and back, each adding to the atmosphere as the sea-mountains recede in the distance.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v42n01_1953-04

Weird Tales vol. 42, no. 6 (September 1950)

"Even a ghost who died by violence shouldn't lose his legal rights, should he?"

I mean, in the law, sorry, yes. It would be his *estate* which had the rights—but seriously. I love the concept and the setup and the fact that the ghost is kind of … smoking? Evaporating?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v42n06_1950-09

Amazing Stories vol. 15, no. 12 (December 1941)

The perspective is weird here—where's the rest of his space ship? Where would his legs go exactly? Is he lying down, kneeling? Or maybe his body just ends at the waist or merges with the ship, who can say? Lucky he's got his headlights on so he can see where he's going.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v15n12_1941-12_cape1736

Amazing Stories vol. 26, no. 2 (February 1952)

For some reason I really love this robot's head, I feel it echoes the shape of a jet engine like the ones on the planes it's shooting down. Either this thing is immense or the perspective makes no sense.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesV26N02195202

Science Fiction Stories vol. 10, no. 1 (March 1959)

Interesting! Clearly they had illustrations which were, you know, OK, a little dull, then someone said "hey let's invert them!" and now they're much cooler and sciencefictiony.

Someone remind me to invert this whole image and reply with it so you can compare and contrast.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Stories_v10n01_1959-03

Science Fiction Quarterly vol. 1, no. 9 (December 1942)

This somehow embodies a lot of deep, almost Freudian themes of science fiction, the human body merging with machinery/weapons, and not for nothing, an attractive body at that. This resonates for me with Japanese stuff like Evangelion.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/ScienceFictionQuarterlyV01N091942Winter

Science Fiction Quarterly New Series vol. 1, no. 6 (August 1952)

Excellent stuff, all the drama and movement is right there, and we know we only have seconds to save our heroes because they have no space suits.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Quarterly_New_Series_v01n06_1952-08

Weird Tales vol. 15, no. 6 (June 1930)

Not sure if this depiction is racist or not, is it a Black person or some kind of spooky apparition who happens to be black?

The contrasting very white person in the foreground isn't showing much concern for the guy in the Hershey's-kisses hat, is she?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV15N06193006

Fantastic Adventures vol. 1, no. 4 (November 1939)

Futuristic flying machine but it still has turbo-props, it's weird how the imagination only went so far.

I like how the artist had to include some kind of detail behind the skyscraper to make us understand it was being vaporised, not just turning blue.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v01n04_1939-11_missing_ifc

Fantastic Adventures vol. 5, no. 4 (April 1943)

Almost perfect as these things go; incredibly sexy but with a kind of get-out clause that she's metallic or otherworldly so it doesn't count. Her, let's say "central portion" is human, right?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v05n04_1943-04_cape1736