Carbon here, carbon there

Cover of Amazing Stories for July 1943 by Harold W. McCauley.

The dame holding the gun on Harold W. McCauley’s cover for the July 1943 Amazing Stories is more suggestive of crime pulp than science fiction…until we notice what looks surprisingly like a tube girl in the background, suggestive of rather more exotic goings-on.

Virgil Finlay’s interior art is featured in this number, with an appropriately surreal illustration for Alexander Blade’s story “Carbon-Copy Killer.”

Virgil Finlay interior illustration for Alexander Blade's "Carbon-Copy Killer" in Amazing Stories, July 1943. — “Her image was black with death…”

This issue of Amazing Stories is available to read and download from the Internet Archive.

3 thoughts on “Carbon here, carbon there”

Molly Whipple says:

2019/12/17 at 14:50

Tehehehe… I first read it as “The Great Britain Panic.”
- Wee Jim says:
  
  2019/12/18 at 05:45
  
  Boris Johnson’s new girlfriend…
Galane says:

2019/12/18 at 04:44

Could this be an inspiration for “Kirby Krackle”? https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/3997

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