SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers

Creepy no. 81 (1976)

This is absolutely wild and I love it. How we arrive at this scenario I have no idea. Maybe these are an early depiction of Gremlins.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-081

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Creepy no. 51 (1973)

There's something uniquely horrible about burning at the stake for me, so thumbs down right away, but there's a creepiness about the little girl watching which takes it even further.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-051

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Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 4, no. 1 (April 1942)

• Love the dragon
• The woman isn't looking nearly scared enough
• How old is that plane? It doesn't look like 1942 vintage

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v04_n01_1942-04.Munsey_cape1736

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Amazing Stories vol. 23, no. 7 (July 1949)

I know this was supposed to be super mysterious and magical but all I can see is a commercial for shampoo.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v23n07_1949-07_cape1736

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Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 4, no. 2 (June 1942)

I have to say the imagery of her pose and the many stars floating around says more night-club to me, but the intensity of those people at the bottom is all witch-hunt.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v04_n02_1942-06.Munsey_dtsg0318-Anon

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Fantastic Adventures vol. 9, no. 1 (January 1947)

This era's obsession with red hair at its peak. Incredibly sexy but also powerful, not like the swooning maidens we've seen so much of.

The horse on the other hand looks rather downcast.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v09n01_1947-01_unz.org

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New Worlds vol. 2, no. 04 (1949)

Love the speed depicted here and the subtle red highlights on the rocket.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_004v02_1949

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Astounding vol. 27, no. 6 (August 1941)

Wow, that thing is big! Love the sense of scale with the tiny people. Always include people to show me how big things are, sci-fi artists!

There's a nice contrast between the shiny ship and the rather battered and worn launch mechanism that it's housed in.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v27n06_1941-08

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Worlds of IF (April 1958)

I like the chiaroscuro of this and the drama in his posture and how he's grasping for something just out of reach.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1958-04_IF

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Fantastic Adventures vol. 3, no. 3 (May 1941)

I was just about to say "oh cool they didn't show the dragon, they used its shadow instead" but then I saw the title.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v03n03_1941-05_cape1736

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Authentic Science Fiction Monthly 45 (1954)

Rather dull, in a way, but an interesting design.

Why *is* man's first starship a shuttlecock wrapped in a bandage? Inquiring minds need to know.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Authentic_Science_Fiction_Monthly_045_1954-05_Bogof39

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Amazing Stories vol. 16, no. 9 1942 9 Ziff Davis (September 1942)

This is a curious one. Very shortly after Pearl Harbor, we're imagining futuristic planes getting revenge rather than contemporary ones? Nice wish-fulfilment I guess.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v16n09_1942-09_-_Ziff-Davis

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Astounding vol. 56, no. 6 (February 1956)

I really like how the background posters are truncated and only partially visible but the figure in the front ties it together. "Build with" what exactly? "Bonfire" is the only word which comes to mind.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v56n06_1956-02_EXciter-LennyS

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New Worlds vol. 16, no. 47 (May 1956)

This looks like an audition for a futuristic "Idol" talent show.

Have you ever thought how those shows put people through to the main auditions who are awful, just to humiliate them so the audience get a laugh? They do it on purpose and it's pretty cruel.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_047v16_1956-05

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Worlds of IF (September 1960)

"Everyone's a critic" seems to be the vibe here. Everyone including four-armed alien Mr Magoo.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1960-09_IF

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Weird Tales vol. 32, no. 1 (July 1938)

That old guy looks like Vincent Schiavelli, is it just me?

Rather contrived arrangement of figures, just to hide the nudity.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v32n01_1938-07

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Weird Tales vol. 31, no. 2 (February 1938)

Seabury Quinn is a weird one. Not surprised this is kind of kinky and BDSM-coded. I perhaps am surprised how she's modelled on Botticelli's Venus.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v31n02_1938-02_slpn_Corrected

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Amazing Stories vol. 6, no. 12 (March 1932)

Simple, powerful image which tells a story.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v06n12_1932-03_sas

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Amazing Stories vol. 33, no. 5 (May 1959)

I don't know if having a kind of anemometer on top of a futuristic sniper rifle is weird or actually a good idea to measure wind speed.

Love the depth and perspective.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v33n05_1959-05_cape1736

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Worlds of IF (December 1965)

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

An absolute classic, which I re-read recently. Does it stand up? I'll say … mostly?

We need Lin-Manual Miranda to do a rap version, just saying.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1965-12_IF

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Science Fiction Quarterly New Series vol. 2, no. 4 (August 1953)

I'm not quite getting the metaphor here, the giant space-compasses, presumably symbolic not literal, are comparing one red planet with another. I like the idea but I don't really love the execution.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Quarterly_New_Series_v02n04_1953-08

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Astounding vol. 34, no. 5 (January 1945)

The posture here is what makes it interesting. Normally falling people in space suits are tumbling and struggling, or clearly unconscious, but there's a kind of intentionality here, as if he's a diver.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v34n05_1945-01_AK

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Thrilling Wonder Stories vol. 44, no. 3 1955 Winter (1955)

Her posture is kind of classical, isn't it? Like a greek statue maybe? I really like the depth of this image as our gaze is drawn off into the distance by their eyelines.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v44n03_1955-Winter_bogof39-slpn

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Weird Tales vol. 35, no. 9 (May 1941)

Nice scary image. However isn't the doll supposed to be tricked out to resemble the victim as much as possible? If the victim looks like this already, bloated and mostly bald with patches of green hair, haven't they suffered enough?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v35n09_1941-05

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Creepy no. 99 (1978)

Very simple concept, powerful image, made a little distracting by the guy in the lower-right corner looking so like Roger Moore, the Worst Bond.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-099

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Astounding vol. 31, no. 2 (April 1943)

I honestly don't know if I've ever seen a *burning* spaceship before. It's kind of a vertical Hindenburg?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v31n02_1943-04_AK

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Vampirella no. 56 (1976)

Is that guy coming to save the day with his syringe? I fear not, I think he's on the side of the monster guys.

The precise location where that left-hand guy is biting her is somehow making me cringe whereas biting her neck doesn't bother me at all. I can almost feel it!

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warren-vampirella-056

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Creepy no. 45 (1972)

Love the chiaroscuro.

Somehow the creature's comfy jacket is more Mister Rogers than Count Dracula.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-045

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Creepy no. 13 (1966)

That is a lot of exclamation marks, even for CREEPY magazine.

The werewolf doesn't seem like he's going to attack her, right? Quite the opposite.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-013

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Weird Tales vol. 9, no. 1 (January 1927)

Wild stuff for 1927. Is that some kind of known composite-mythical-beast or did the artist simply throw together a few animals off their own bat, so to speak?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV09N01192701

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Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 8, no. 5 (June 1947)

Is that green guy another version of the main guy, from a different time? Is he dead and only imagining his apocalypse date with the woman, in a kind of Owl Creek Bridge situation?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v08_n05_1947-06.Popular_cape1736_edit

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Worlds of IF (February 1957)

Is this person putting the flag up or taking it down? Also why is the tool needed? Is it some kind of steel flag which needs to be attached securely to withstand the cruel winds of Titan?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1957-02_IF

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Amazing Stories vol. 18, no. 4 1944 9 (September 1944)

The creepy bald alien guy (faun? he has hooves?) seems more upset than murderous or angry. The servicewoman he's grabbing is dressed for work but the other guy is in full dress uniform as if he's on his way to a ceremony.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v18n04_1944-09_Ziff-Daviscape1736

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Worlds of IF (September 1968)

Nice powerful image, not sure how the lighting works. The only question is, should it be hurtling toward the earth or has something gone horribly wrong.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1968-09_IF

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New Worlds vol. 23, no. 67 (January 1958)

Pretty sure when Russia launched its first manned satellite, they wouldn't have lots of rockets/planes flying dangerously close to it but hey, great image.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_067v23_1958-01

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