Dark world indeed! Another Earle Bergey cover painting for the Summer 1946 issue of Startling Stories. An uncredited interior illustration to the same story suggests things really go kaboom there.
This issue is available for reading and download at the Internet Archive.
Fantastic Adventures published between 1939 and 1953 and rarely stinted on the sexy in its covers, as this cover by Walter Popp (1920-2002) shows, albeit perhaps a bit more subtly than many similar covers in its genre.
Interior art by Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990) illustrating Rog Phillips’s story “The Man who Lived Twice” contributes a definite Erotic Mad Science feel.
This issue of Fantastic Adventures is available to be read or downloaded at the Internet Archive.
Hat tip to Pulp Covers for bringing this issue to my attention.
My original tumblr post was here. This image was created and posted on Tumblr by ThDark’s Blog of Art and Things with the comment “Another drawing in my “Characters vaguely from the early 20th century with some sort of weapon” series. (The revolver here is the Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver, which is a really interesting design!)” It comes to us via turner-d-century.
My original tumblr post was here. this image was first posted on Tumblr by A guy and his blog, where it was attributed to Luis Royo.
My original tumblr post was here. This image was first posted on Tumblr by Reginald Juice and comes to us via letshavoc.
My original tumblr post was here. This image was first posted on Tumblr by Hell House and comes to us via The Delectably Unadulterated Hideout. I think it is Aphrodite by Eddy Swan, although this is a tentative identification.
My original tumblr post was here. This image is D.Va (Overwatch) by Karn Kirk Ratanasin (DigiFlohw). It was first posted on Tumblr by Sexy ero-art.
My original tumblr post was here. This image was first posted by dustrial-inc and attributed to Masamune Shirow. It comes to us via napalm-memories.
