Creepy no. 98 (1978)

Love the concept, love the monster. It's "The Purple Rose Of Cairo" but with a frog-eyed, lizard-scaled, multi-fanged and -clawed monster as the leading man.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-098

Thrilling Wonder Stories vol. 42, no. 1 (April 1953)

Yet again, a woman trapped in a tube or capsule. It's a theme of these images and someone should be writing a PhD thesis on it.

I love the composition, how it has a distinct foreground, middle and back, each adding to the atmosphere as the sea-mountains recede in the distance.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v42n01_1953-04

Weird Tales vol. 42, no. 6 (September 1950)

"Even a ghost who died by violence shouldn't lose his legal rights, should he?"

I mean, in the law, sorry, yes. It would be his *estate* which had the rights—but seriously. I love the concept and the setup and the fact that the ghost is kind of … smoking? Evaporating?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v42n06_1950-09

Amazing Stories vol. 15, no. 12 (December 1941)

The perspective is weird here—where's the rest of his space ship? Where would his legs go exactly? Is he lying down, kneeling? Or maybe his body just ends at the waist or merges with the ship, who can say? Lucky he's got his headlights on so he can see where he's going.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v15n12_1941-12_cape1736

Amazing Stories vol. 26, no. 2 (February 1952)

For some reason I really love this robot's head, I feel it echoes the shape of a jet engine like the ones on the planes it's shooting down. Either this thing is immense or the perspective makes no sense.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesV26N02195202

Science Fiction Stories vol. 10, no. 1 (March 1959)

Interesting! Clearly they had illustrations which were, you know, OK, a little dull, then someone said "hey let's invert them!" and now they're much cooler and sciencefictiony.

Someone remind me to invert this whole image and reply with it so you can compare and contrast.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Stories_v10n01_1959-03

Science Fiction Quarterly vol. 1, no. 9 (December 1942)

This somehow embodies a lot of deep, almost Freudian themes of science fiction, the human body merging with machinery/weapons, and not for nothing, an attractive body at that. This resonates for me with Japanese stuff like Evangelion.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/ScienceFictionQuarterlyV01N091942Winter

Science Fiction Quarterly New Series vol. 1, no. 6 (August 1952)

Excellent stuff, all the drama and movement is right there, and we know we only have seconds to save our heroes because they have no space suits.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Quarterly_New_Series_v01n06_1952-08

Weird Tales vol. 15, no. 6 (June 1930)

Not sure if this depiction is racist or not, is it a Black person or some kind of spooky apparition who happens to be black?

The contrasting very white person in the foreground isn't showing much concern for the guy in the Hershey's-kisses hat, is she?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV15N06193006

Fantastic Adventures vol. 1, no. 4 (November 1939)

Futuristic flying machine but it still has turbo-props, it's weird how the imagination only went so far.

I like how the artist had to include some kind of detail behind the skyscraper to make us understand it was being vaporised, not just turning blue.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v01n04_1939-11_missing_ifc

Fantastic Adventures vol. 5, no. 4 (April 1943)

Almost perfect as these things go; incredibly sexy but with a kind of get-out clause that she's metallic or otherworldly so it doesn't count. Her, let's say "central portion" is human, right?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v05n04_1943-04_cape1736

Creepy no. 141 (1982)

No idea what's going on here. I really struggled with the Alt text but yeah, "bunch of people struggling" about covers it. Are the blue guys fighting the green guys, is that how it works?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-141

Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 11, no. 1 (October 1949)

Lots going on here. I love the mummy creature and the fact that she's so calm means she's in charge of it, right? She's sending it out to menace us, from the top of her tiger-head furnace. Wait did that rhyme?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v11_n01_1949-10.Popular_cape1736_edit

When Jules De Grandin callssomeone "apache" he's:

1-NOT talking about the native american tribe

2-Intead he thinks about a famous french criminal gangs

3-Is a very strong swear word.

So, if Dr. De Grandin call someone 2apache", believe me.He's using the most offensive insult ever known by french people.

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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New Worlds Canadian Ed. vol. 9, no. 25 (September 1954)

OK where is the light coming from here? Reflected from Saturn? It's Saturn-shine? Seems unlikely.

I like the colours and the design though there's no real story here except "people explore place". Perhaps the most interesting thing is that it's the Canadian edition of the magazine?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_Canadian_Ed._025v09_1954-09

Science Fantasy vol. 7, no. 19 1956 8 (August 1956)

Those are some scary-ass birds, is all I have to say. The colours on this are hurting my eyes but it's powerful.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fantasy_v07n19_1956-08_Bogof39-slpn

Fantastic Films 10 September 1979 (September 1979)

This is fascinating. Whoever drew this had some kind of vague idea what the alien spaceship from "Alien" looked like, but maybe not an official one. Maybe they'd seen some clips or stills and reconstructed it from memory?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Films_010_September_1979_vol2_no4_c2c-Tranzor-HQS

Weird Tales vol. 23, no. 5 (May 1934)

The guy is holding the knife rather noncommittally, as if to say "I have this knife, would that scare you at all …?”

Cannot unsee, her bejewelled bra thingy looks like a goofy bird looking out at us.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v23n05_1934-05_sas