Fantastic Adventures vol. 13, no. 2 (February 1951)
Yet another unconscious woman at the mercy of sinister men. We can't be sure if they're wrapping or unwrapping her, but either way she's going to have a bad time, mmkay. I love the lighting here, it adds lots of drama.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v13n02_1951-02_JMorgan-cape1736
Amazing Stories vol. 16, no. 10 (October 1942)
Everything is just so much more dramatic when it's diagonal, isn't it? We almost don't need the colours turned up to eleven.
Did you know every movie on IMDB has a score out of ten except for "This is Spinal Tap"?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v16n10_1942-10_cape1736
Creepy no. 123 (1980)
This cover is frankly, porn, let's face it. I mean it's well-painted, the chiaroscuro is on point, every contour is lovingly detailed. But why isn't her hair wet? It's so long, it would be trailing in the water, or whatever that liquid is.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-123
Amazing Stories vol. 4, no. 9 (December 1929)
This one is a bit confusing, the perspective isn't clear to me. The ship and/or submarine is on the banks of a pool or basin? The creature is, I'm sorry to say, not scary to me, it's about as scary as a Moomin.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v04n09_1929-12_-ifc_ibc_bc_sas
Amazing Stories vol. 2, no. 1 (April 1927)
Hard to see the science fiction content here, except that they're using SSOMOD, Some Sort Of Machine Or Device to examine our heroine here. She seems OK with it.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v02n01_1927-04_Missing_ifc_Saskia-Bogof
Weird Tales vol. 39, no. 8 (November 1946)
I assume it's some kind of weird production accident or other glitch which has a spooky floating letter "a" down there? Or is it part of the story?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n08_1946-11
Creepy no. 48 (1972)
I recognise a bunch of these, but I don't quite understand why they would have a special issue which feature previous covers.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-048
Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 8, no. 4 (April 1947)
It's a testament to the prevalence of this type of image that I literally can't remember if we've seen this before. A woman is encased in some kind of transparent/translucent substance. The only weird thing here is the giant skeleton hand holding the man.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v08_n04_1947-04.Popular_cape1736_edit
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
