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
Creepy no. 103 (1978)
“Animals breaking out from a travelling circus” was a staple of the pulp literature I read as a little kid, but I'm guessing their red eyes are an indication of something a bit more supernatural?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-103
Worlds of IF (July 1954)
“That's right, Billy, these are the ships which will launch against the Russkies and precipitate a global nuclear apocalypse!”
“Golly gee grandpa, that's so neat! Hey what does this button do?”
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1954-07_IF
Astounding vol. 62, no. 3 (November 1958)
Two old friends talking about their jobs as, I'm guessing, space ship captains? They don't seem very happy, do they, despite the beers they're having. There's a clue in the story title but it just makes it more puzzling.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v62n03_1958-11_EXciter-LennyS
Amazing Stories vol. 7, no. 6 (September 1932)
I can't quite be sure what he's looking at here—some sort of forge/foundry in which a mechanical process is taking place? Maybe he's looking down at a fiery planet/sun? His expression does a lot of work here.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v07n06_1932-09_cape1736
Fantastic Adventures vol. 12, no. 5 (May 1950)
Evil plants! Always fun.
Whoever drew this very fit, very attractive damsel in distress went down to the millimetre in portraying her bikini top, didn't they? It's somehow more sexy than just drawing her topless, drawing the moment just before.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v12n05_1950-05_cape1736
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
Science Wonder Stories vol. 1, no. 6 (November 1929)
Three hundred dollars for the best short, SHORT story written around this picture!
Is it too late to enter?
I can't pay you $300 unfortunately but I will award you something for the best short short story in the replies to this post.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Wonder_Stories_v01n06_1929-11.Stellar
Amazing Stories vol. 6, no. 3 (June 1931)
The dude being carried looks quite calm about it, if determined, and is apparently a consenting adult so who are we to judge. Nice Golden Hour quality to the lighting.
Those domes in the background look very Tatooine, is it just me?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v06n03_1931-06_sas
Creepy no. 72 (1975)
I really love this robot/android/whatever. There's clearly something serious going on, but the posture and the expression on its androidy face make it ambiguous if it's the hero or the villain, the one who caused the fire or the one who will save the day.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-072
Worlds of IF (June 1968)
Long time readers of this bot's output will know what I'm about to say—what's the SCALE here? Is this building twenty feet tall or twenty thousand feet? How far away is it? Put a human figure in there somewhere please.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1968-06_IF
Astounding vol. 55, no. 5 (July 1955)
I like the less-is-more, don't-reveal-your-monster-too-soon quality of this one.
But is it a monster? It could be a cat-like-alien construction worker knocking off at the end of the day for all we can tell.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v55n05_1955-07_ATLPM
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
Science Fiction Quarterly vol. 1, no. 2 - 1951 - Columbia (August 1951)
Going out on a limb here but this is some guy's highly specific J G Ballardesque/Rule 34 fantasy, right? To become a human airplane with a sexy young woman chained to your back?
It's not my kind of thing but hey who am I to judge the author/artist? You do you.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Quarterly_v01n02_-_1951_-_Columbia
Creepy no. 106 (1979)
Yeah what exactly the hell is going on here. Anatomy itself takes a back seat to Science-fiction-Burt-Reynolds' desire to cut the tongue of this enormous monster—that will just make it angrier, right? Hopefully the young woman has some better ideas.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-106
Weird Tales vol. 35, no. 8 (March 1941)
No idea what's going on with the ladies in the background.
The man who loved…PLANKS? That's the least exciting possible ending to that sentence I can imagine, notwithstanding a possible guest appearance by Eric Sykes. But then they damp it down even further. Less. Is. More. Guys.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v35n08_1941-03_-ifc_slpn
Creepy no. 50 (1973)
Curiously heart-warming and twee.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-050
Worlds of IF (November 1953)
Wild stuff. They're out there observing the Sun, or playing trumpets to it, I don't know, but they're also those stiff little figures which rotate out of ancient clocks on the hour.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1953-11_IF
Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 2, no. 1 (April 1940)
Nice, simple, dramatic stuff. Evil plants again! I love an evil plant.
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v02_n01_1940-04.Munsey_wolfhound
