This is Marvel Science Stories for August 1938, cover by Norman Saunders. The ISFDB entry is here. I found this version of the cover at
Pulp Parade #325: The Great Brain Am Winning Again!
![](https://pulpcovers.com/avengers-of-space/#1">Pulp Covers</a>, which also included some of the interior art (all of it uncredited, unfortunately). There is this monster-and-girl image:</p>
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<p>And this fine piece of mad-science distressed damsel illustration:</p>
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<p>You can <a href="https://archive.org/details/Marvel_Science_Stories_v01n01_1938-08.Red_Circle_nbc_Ufikus-DPP">download and read</a> the entire issue at the Internet Archive.</p>
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“Avengers of Space” versus a giant brain? This is an early draft of Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2, right?
Zardu Hasselfrau!
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Could be anything, really.
I do think that contemporary cinema suffers badly by its shortage of blond girls in metal bikinis running away from atomic-powered robot race cars to which they’re chained.
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Nowadays, ladies like to kick can. And metal bikinis chafe. ^_^
Nice Futurama ref., by the way.
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The big brain am winning again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKMLQ_RgJ4A
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