Pulp Parade #274: Who needs armor when you’re hot?

This is Amazing Stories for June 1949, cover by Arnold Kohn. For all that I like to make fun of it (“How is she holding both a shield and the reins?”), it is still a remarkably dynamic cover painting. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. You can read and download the entire issue (apparently lacking its front cover) from the Internet Archive.

Pulp Parade #270: Tube girl hot damn!

This is Amazing Stories for January 1942, cover by Malcolm Smith. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. While far from the first instance of the artistic trope of a “tube girl,” I do think it might have been this particular illustration that motivated the proprietor of of the (apparently) now-defunct blog Promethean Blues to coin the term “tube girl,” whence I have taken it. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. You can download and read this entire issue from the Internet Archive.

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

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.