Pulp Parade #266: Your gown is fabulous, but I’m still taking this ship

Pulp Parade #265: Workplace safety hazard from outer space
Pulp Parade #267: It's a kind of inverted "I Dream of Jeannie"

This is a cover painting for Amazing Stories, August 1942, by Harold McCauley. The cover:

The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found both the painting and the cover at Pulp Covers, which also gives us a bonus back cover.

Either something in that description is missing, or this was a concept come up with someone who really doesn’t understand physics. You can download and read this issue from the Internet Archive.

3 thoughts on “Pulp Parade #266: Your gown is fabulous, but I’m still taking this ship

  1. A ramjet by any other name…

    In a denser atmosphere, the aircraft is more buoyant and the jet probably works more effectively.

    And, that’s one happy looking Uranian.

    • Of course, the details on page 238 show up all sorts of errors. Such as assuming that liquids can be compressed (they can’t!). And what kind of a creature is part-amphibian and part-land dwelling? An amphibian, that’s what!

  2. I like the overstuffed easy chair at the pilot’ station the lady is manning.

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