Amazing Stories vol. 6, no. 5 (August 1931)

Love the drama, the depth, the diagonals everywhere, lots of story being told.

Spherical space ships again! I know we have a few fans out there.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesV06N05193108

Creepy no. 53 (1973)

This is rather underpowered as artwork goes, ghoul, swamp, moonlight, whatevs, until we get to that teddy bear. That's the wrong note. What's it holding? And is it alive? Is it looking back at the ghoul?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-053

Amazing Stories Volume 5 Number 10 (January 1931)

I don't know whose side I'm on, Octo-spider-guy or space-gorilla-with-too-much-makeup guy!

Or are they fighting at all? Who am I to judge their relationship?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume05Number10

Astounding vol. 55, no. 2 (April 1955)

I got stuck on the order of English adjectives when doing the alt text. Is it "wild curly bright red hair"? "bright red wild curly hair"?

What does this dude have in his hand? What's with the silly string?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v55n02_1955-04_UnkSc-cape1736

Amazing Stories vol. 24, no. 6 (June 1950)

Well there's a goddess and there's a volcano, and she's the goddess of it. Pretty simple proposition. Do those figures in the foreground look Tibetan to you?

I love the colours of this one.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v24n06_1950-06

New Worlds vol. 10, no. 30 (December 1954)

Wildly homoerotic, or is it just me? Interesting that the chains are white.

Aren't we all just prisoners of our skulls, if you think about it? [Nods meaningfully, strokes chin]

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_030v10_1954-12

Worlds of IF (January 1953)

Love it. Completely mad but instantly understandable.

Fun fact, the farming term for doing this used to be "broadcasting".

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1953-01_IF

Science Fiction Stories vol. 7, no. 4 (January 1957)

I love the prosaic quality of this contrasted with the space setting. No knock on the door from an officious-looking old dude carrying a briefcase is good news, right?

Also "Male Strikebreaker"? Someone has to read that story please, so. many. questions.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Stories_v07n04_1957-01_cape1736

Amazing Stories vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1943)

I wasn't sure if the guy on the right was a giant or the one on the left was tiny but the word "mites" in the title says it's the latter.

The snarl on his face contrasts with the relative calm of the victim. Really Dave, you're putting me into the retro-encabulator? OK I guess.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v17n06_1943-06_cape1736

Amazing Stories vol. 3, no. 11 (February 1929)

Somehow the weirdest part is that the giant beetles have hands with little fingers.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v03n11_1929-02_cape1736-David_V

Weird Tales vol. 15, no. 4 (April 1930)

This is a bit messy, but I'm guessing that some mysterious wizard type person, off-screen, is holding that thing and using it to conjure up the two figures?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV15N04193004jvhSas

Weird Tales vol. 43, no. 3 (March 1951)

This is a bit of a mishmash, I don't really like it. If you're going to do a collage of ten different images, tie them together better?

Forgive me for being so judgemental, underpaid genre-magazine designer from 1951. I don't know your life.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v43n03_1951-03

Amazing Stories vol. 22, no. 2 (February 1948)

It's not just me, right? That round spaceship looks like a fruit surrounded by leaves? Maybe I'm just hungry.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v22n02_1948-02_cape1736

Worlds of IF (April 1957)

Her pose is so outrageously cheesecakey you have to laugh. Oh my, you've caught me clad only in an impractically small towel! And the alien is wolf-whistling with one of his many limbs, seriously?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1957-04_IF

Worlds of IF (May 1955)

I appreciate the where's-Waldo level of detail on the left, can you spot the nun? The violinist? But the scale is all wrong, pardon the pun. The things on the right are ten or a hundred times the size of a person.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1955-05_IF_modified