“I mean, Jesus lady, you could put an eye out with those things!” This is Amazing Stories from October 1950, cover by Robert Gibson Jones. 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 from the Internet Archive.
This is Amazing Stories for January 1951, cover by Robert Gibson Jones. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. You can download and read the entire issue from the Internet Archive.
This is Amazing Stories for March 1948, cover by Robert Gibson Jones. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. You can read and download this whole issue from the Internet Archive.
This is Amazing Stories for November 1942, cover by Robert Gibson Jones. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found the version of the cover above at Pulp Covers. There is a smaller, brighter version at Galactic Central.
You can download and read the entire issue from the Internet Archive.
This is Amazing Stories for December 1926, cover by Frank R. Paul. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers, whose curators add the following editorial remark:
That’s right, folks. Someone painted this for no good reason, then had a contest to find some context for their insanity.
That $500 prize offered by the editors was a very rich one, assuming they were serious about it. The U.S. Department of Labor inflation calculator tells us that $500 in December 1926 would be the equivalent of $6,913.36 in May 2017.
You can read and download the entire issue from the Internet Archive.
This is Amazing Stories for July 1927, cover by Frank R. Paul. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this cover at Pulp Covers. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a copy of this issue in the Internet Archive. One remarkable detail from this early cover (at the top, middle) is the call sign of WRNY, an AM radio station in New York started by editor Hugo Gernsback to promote the magazine. WRNY was a very early (1928) experimenter with television broadcasting and also had a shortwave affiliate sometimes heard across the globe.
This is Amazing Stories for August 1946, cover by Harold McCauley. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. You can download and read the entire issue at the Internet Archive.
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This is Amazing Stories for November 1939, cover by H.W. McCauley. The cover illustrates a human-duplication story “The Four-Sided Triangle,” the 1953 movie version of which I blogged about in the early days of this site. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. You can download and read this issue from the Internet Archive.
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I know I’ve probably run this cover any number of times before among my tumblr re-blogs, but fuck it, it’s awesome. This is Amazing Stories for May 1952, cover by Lawrence Sterne Stevens. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. You can download and read the whole issue from the Internet Archive.
This is Amazing Stories for January 1950, cover by Arnold Kohn. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers. You can download and read the entire issue (missing its front cover, sadly) from the Internet Archive.
