New Worlds vol. 22, no. 66 (December 1957)
This is a weird one. Not sure what the science fiction content is exactly but those people in regular clothing seem to be threatened by that glowing cylinder, although their eyelines tell me that's not what they're looking at.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_066v22_1957-12
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
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. 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
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
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
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
Astounding vol. 12, no. 1 (March 1933)
I have had a couple of drinks by this point and would love someone to explain this to me. Are the people being shot out or pulled in? The word "salvage" implies the latter but those beams are just appearing through the sides of the ship? Lots of colour here, but it's not helping.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v12n01_1933-03
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. 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
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
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
