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
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
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
Astounding vol. 42, no. 6 (February 1949)
Yeah no idea what's going on here, it's all a little mad. What are those three disks? Are those space-text-messages supposed to be literal, as in, he can see them floating in space? Or less literal, like he can hear them or see them on a console but they're reproduced for us?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v42n06_1949-02_cape1736
Worlds of IF (February 1973)
There's a volcano, obv. But also those meteor things are shooting down? What's the ship doing? Looking for survivors? I have some bad news if so. Maybe the dude in the corner is the survivor in which case shouldn't he be waving?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1973-02_IF
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
