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Robots! Dames! Raygun! Exaggerated Fonts!
That’s Startling Stories for you.
And, That Cover.
One of the Later Captain Future stories by Edmond Hamilton appears here, Captain Future, one of the classic pulp scifi heroes, a mainstay in his own magazine as well as Startling for more then a decade, who would go on to success as of all things, a Japanese Anime series. Ha.
Startling Stories vol.20 #3, january 1950. Cover by Earle Bergey.
I’ve often wondered just what the octopoid aliens had in mind for the lithesome earth girls they were always abducting. To say nothing of the equally acquisitive robots.
A lithesome earth girl, carefully seasoned and prepared, would be delicious to many octopoid aliens. With robots I am less certain, except to note that their programming likely reflects the minds of their creators.