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
Amazing Stories, the American pulp magazine, launched in April 1926 and was the very first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Enjoy the fast-paced storytelling, retro art and advertising of the 20’s. via @internetarchive
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
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
Two Complete Science-Adventure Books vol. 1, no. 10 (December 1953)
The poor woman in the top-left portion of the cover is about to meet a terrible fate, right? She's going to be read Vogon poetry from that book.
Lower right … "ballroom" of the skies? Those ships are *performing* for the giant creature, not just escaping from it?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/two-complete-science-adventure-books-v-01-n-10-1953-winter
Weird Tales vol. 24, no. 4 (October 1934)
Instagram influencers beware. This woman is violating social norms for clout and I'm pretty sure she comes to a bad end.
The weirdest story ever told! In Weird Tales magazine no less! All I get so far is "pretty lady kisses statue". I've done weirder stuff than that when drunk.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV24N04193410saspages4856Damaged
Amazing Stories vol. 10, no. 11 (August 1936)
The man who shrank, and whose strangely prosaic shorts luckily shrank with him, sparing his modesty. I'm not sure which giant-to-him phenomenon is shooting the lightning. Has he shrunk down to molecule lever, skipping the traditional threats like the cat and the vacuum cleaner?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v10n11_1936-08
Astounding vol. 51, no. 3 (May 1953)
This is both ugly and incomprehensible, so yeah. I can't find anything to like here at all. Which I suppose makes it unique among all the thousands of images posted by this account?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v51n03_1953-05_cape1736
Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 9, no. 5 (June 1948)
Wow, this is pretty wild. Lots of places in the UK are called "The Devil's Punchbowl" but this is very literal. He's going to eat the angel first and leave the regular humans with no wings for later?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v09n05_1948-06_TroutBreath
Weird Tales vol. 21, no. 3 (March 1933)
No subtlety here, just plain nudity, though the angle/posture is very careful I guess. She has amazing hair. Society was obsessed with red hair back then, right? Nowadays it's scorned. Who are our red-haired role models? Julianne Moore? Ellie Kemper?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV21N03193303
Amazing Stories vol. 9, no. 3 (July 1934)
I really like how the aliens are seen from the back only and we have to guess at what's going on with their … faces? Front … body parts?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v09n03_1934-07_Gorgon776_-ibc_bc
From March 1 to October 15, 1919.
Publication runs of the American pulp magazine The Thrill Book are oriented towards the fantasy genre or science fiction. It includes the serialization of The Heads of Cerberus, written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett as Francis Stevens, with its early thematic use of an alternate time-track, or parallel worlds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrill_Book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heads_of_Cerberus
The Thrill Books is available at LibriVoX:
https://librivox.org/group/676?primary_key=676&search_category=group&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha
Thrilling Wonder Stories vol. 25, no. 3 (1944)
Women of Mastodon, talk me through this whole metal brassiere situation we have here. How comfortable would you feel being rescued from alien walruses in this little item? Maybe that expression of anguish on her face isn't about the walri at all.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v25n03_1944-Spring
Universe #4 (March 1954)
This seems like a classical scene with nymphs (!) bathing in a waterfall, but why it is so brightly lit in red? Maybe it's on Mars. Her hair bothers me.
Lots of these stories are about travelling in space/to remote places/through time and meeting comely young maidens.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Universe_04_1954-03_LennyS-EXciter
