Notices by SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers (sffmagazinecovers@zirk.us)

Fantastic Adventures vol. 2, no. 4 (April 1940)

Nice to remember a time when people still don't quite know what was in Antarctica and we could still write crazy fantasy about Lost Worlds that Time Forgot.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v02n04_1940-04_missing_ifcibcbc

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Worlds of IF (December 1956)

The guy is naked, but he had shoes, only he's left them behind. Did he emerge from that hatch on the right there? Why does he have a model rocket ship on a tiny trolley? Are the eggs and bones from the same creature? It's Daliesque, or an attempt at Daliesque anyway.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1956-12_IF

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Creepy no. 26 (1969)

I feel like this is Mr Hyde, based on very little information except the hint of formal Edwardian clothing and the similarity to other depictions of Mr H.

Why he's got green stuff coming out of his eye-bags I don't know.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-026

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New Worlds vol. 15, no. 45 (March 1956)

This is a misfire in about every level. The colours are dull, the interesting parts are cropped out somehow and the composition is all wrong, Try harder "Jerry".

I do somehow want to read the story just to resolve the many uncertainties this leaves me with.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_045v15_1956-03

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Amazing Stories vol. 20, no. 8 (November 1946)

This is amazing, isn't it? I assume the demon guy is enormous and the woman regular-sized but who knows? And that tail is weird and rather suggestive.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v20n08_1946-11_cape1736

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Thrilling Wonder Stories vol. 26, no. 3 (January 1945)

The wildest thing here is the giant scary bird, but her shoes are a close second.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV26N031945Wi

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Fantastic Adventures vol. 13, no. 12 (December 1951)

I love her and her very impractical dress (she didn't wake up this morning expecting to escape from giant clawed hands on a white horse) and the submerged heads are bonkers. This rings a bell, but I don't know if I've featured this one before. Anyone?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v13n12_1951-12_cape1736

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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

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Weird Tales vol. 26, no. 1 (July 1935)

Oh so that's what happened to Atlantis? A volcano erupted and it shot all the Atlanteans out into the sky? Because of this young woman and her nun friend?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v26n01_1935-07_ATLPM-Sas

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Astounding vol. 45, no. 3 (May 1950)

Be honest, the only thing we care about on this cover is “Dianetics”, a new science of the mind. This must have been one of its first appearances? And it's in a fiction magazine?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v45n03_1950-05_cape1736

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Weird Tales vol. 34, no. 5 (November 1939)

I mean, we've got vultures, and we've got a dead body, but we don't have the courage to show the one eating the other?

Not sure what's going on with that white thing over his legs. Is the vulture using a napkin?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v34n05_1939-11

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Weird Tales vol. 39, no. 9 (January 1947)

Yeah I have no idea what's going on here. I can't even make out which bits the monster exactly. But you have to admit it has brio.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n09_1947-01

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Everyday Science and Mechanics (December 1933)

I don't know if anyone was proposing this scheme for trains back in 1933 but it's both attractive and hilariously impractical if you think about it for a moment.

It reminded me to re-watch Feynman on “How the train stays on the track’ though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/everyday-science-and-mechanics-1933-12

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Vampirella no. 45 (1975)

Not sure how to put this any other way, but what's going on between her legs there? A black rectangle covering something up? Why? What? And why?

Otherwise this is obv. just "collage some old covers together please we're close to deadline".

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warren-vampirella-045

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Editorial / Personal note.

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