My original tumblr post was here. This cover image of the February 1956 issue Imagination Science Fiction was originally posted on Tumblr by pulpbizzare with the enigmatic (to me, anyway) text “3641-1852-10939.” It comes to us via Reginald Juice. The ISFDB entry for this issue is here, and identifies the artist as Lloyd Rognan.
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Tumblr favorite #2554: Insane injection
My original tumblr post was here. This cover image of the November 1935 edition of Dime Mystery Magazine was first posted on Tumblr by Damsel Lover. The ISFDB entry for the issue is here.
Tumblr favorite #2550: Virgil Finlay set
My original tumblr post was here. This set of Virgil Finlay images was first posted on Tumblr by Ungoliantschilde and comes to us via scottpvaughn.
Tumblr favorite #2544: Kidnapped into utopia
My original tumblr post was here. This image was first posted by 70s Sci-Fi Art and comes to us via goddessoftheblackcoast. It appears to be a crop of cover art for an edition of Fletcher Pratt’s Alien Planet.
Cover found here.
Tumblr favorite #2539: Uncanny tube
My original tumblr post was here. I’ve probably done a reblog on this one before and probably will again, but sometimes you just have to deal. This image is the cover of Uncanny Tales for August 1939: ISFDB entry here. It was originally posted on tumblr by Vintage Geek Culture.
Tumblr favorite #2538: The girl in the gem
My original tumblr post was here. This image was originally posted by UDHCMH with the following explanatory text:
Astonishing Stories, November 1941.
Not quite a science-fiction-woman-in-a-glass-tube cover but close.
Cover illustrates Wilfred Owen Morley’s “My Lady of the Emerald” in which a scientific expedition travels deep into the wilds of South America seeking traces of a super-civilization that predated Atlantis and Mu. They find an ancient beauty, imprisoned in a jewel, who bewitches them all.
The image comes to us via notpulpcovers.
Tumblr favorite #2529: Girl-zapper ray
My original tumblr post was here. This image is the April 1946 (Vol. 30, #3) issue of Popular Detective. The Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index has issue details here, but unfortunately I have been unable to determine the artist. The image was originally posted by pulpbizarre and comes to us via dieselpunkflimflam.
..Tumblr favorite #2528: Astro-gods
My original tumblr post was here. This image is the December 1957 cover of Fantastic Universe. According to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, this cover was done by Virgil Finlay. The cover was first posted on tumblr by Vintage Geek Culture.
Tumblr favorite #2513: Something funky in the lab
My original tumblr post was here. This image was originally posted on Tumblr by Sci-fi Covers with the explanatory text “If vol 13 no 1, March 1963. Cover art by Virgil Finlay illustrating “The Time Tombs” by J. G. [sic] Ballard.”
Tumblr favorite #2492: The Mutants Rebel
My original tumblr post was here. This image was originally posted on Pulp Covers with the explanatory text “E.C. Tubb, The Mutants Rebel. ‘An evil matriarchy guides an unwitting world to its doom.'”