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Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.

[Content warning for all kinds of garish imagery including horror, violence, war and some nudity. Racial stereotypes crop up from time to time.]

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Fantastic Adventures vol. 3, no. 4 (June 1941)

I'm fascinated by this one, particularly how she's so etiolated and pale. And how the gryphon has a kind of "I'm too old for this shit" look on its face. Beak.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v03n04_1941-06_cape1736

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Creepy no. 96 (1979)

The alien seems more worried about us than threatening. This was after “Close Encounters” but before “E.T.”.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-096

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Worlds of IF (April 1968)

I can't tell if this is in the sea or not, those plants look like seaweed. This style reeks of the late 60s, early 70s. I can almost smell the felt pens it was drawn with.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1968-04_IF

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Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.

[Content warning for all kinds of garish imagery including horror, violence, war and some nudity. Racial stereotypes crop up from time to time.]

#FollowFriday #Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

Weird Tales vol. 25, no. 6 (June 1935)

Oh they thought they were being edgy in 1935 at the idea there were monsters in the movie industry?

In 2026 you're going to have to be more specific.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v25n06_1935-06_sas

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Do people still respond to Lemurian Emergencies? Or has that skill been lost? From "Weird Tales", January 1942.
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Weird Tales vol. 37, no. 6 (July 1944)

Wow, lots going on in this one. I can't make out the relationship between the vampire and the skeleton, let alone why that tiny woman has to tightrope-walk the web. The candles look almost like medieval or Russian icon paintings with those halos.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v37n06_1944-07

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Weird Tales vol. 46, no. 1 (March 1954)

This is pretty unremarkable. It's a classic trope of science fiction/fantasy in this period to use archaic syntax isn't it? Your story is instantly 100 times more classy if its title is "Call Not Their Names" rather than "Do Not Call Their Names".

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v46n01_1954-03_jw

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@TidalFlats @12thRITS

Maybe I’ll just walk the earth, like Caine in Kung Fu

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Fantastic Adventures vol. 8, no. 3 (July 1946)

I'm guessing the bird-creature can throw her off the building, but then swoop down and grab her before she hits the ground? And if it does that then the man won't want to shoot it?

Watch out for the Gwen Stacey effect, bird creature …!

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v08n03_1946-07_cape1736

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Astounding vol. 45, no. 2 (April 1950)

This guy has a very contemporary look, despite being a wizard or whatever. He looks like an Oxbridge undergraduate not a space mage.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v45n02_1950-04_cape1736

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Astounding vol. 19, no. 5 (July 1937)

This is really great. The composition, the lighting, the amount of empty space alone, but the drama of the beam and the running figures is terrific.

What are they running toward? And why do people always run in a straight line!

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/astoundingv019n05193707

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Amazing Stories vol. 4, no. 7 (October 1929)

I like how there's a giant monster right there and the two mis-matched guys are just having a calm conversation about it. Is it eating from a trough?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v04n07_1929-10_-ifc

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Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.

[Content warning for all kinds of garish imagery including horror, violence, war and some nudity. Racial stereotypes crop up from time to time.]

#FollowFriday #Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

Worlds of IF (April 1958)

I like the chiaroscuro of this and the drama in his posture and how he's grasping for something just out of reach.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1958-04_IF

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To this day, many people wonder if the Jack Rabbit Slim’s seen in Tarantino’s film "Pulp Fiction" was a real location that could be found on a map. Several of Pulp Fiction’s shooting locations were (and are) real, but the interior of the time-warped venue only existed on a soundstage in Los Angeles. But is (or was) there such a thing as Jack Rabbit Slim's at all in the real world?

Yes. And here they are...

https://friendrewind.com/blog/real-pulp-fiction-connections-29980

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Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 4, no. 1 (April 1942)

• Love the dragon
• The woman isn't looking nearly scared enough
• How old is that plane? It doesn't look like 1942 vintage

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v04_n01_1942-04.Munsey_cape1736

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Astounding vol. 20, no. 1 (September 1937)

I think whoever scanned this one must have cranked up the saturation because there's no way these colours survived since 1937 but hey, imagine the effect on the audience back then.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v20n01_1937-09_docorlof

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Amazing Stories vol. 23, no. 7 (July 1949)

I know this was supposed to be super mysterious and magical but all I can see is a commercial for shampoo.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v23n07_1949-07_cape1736

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Once in a while I’ll buy a beer based solely on the can’s artwork. This was one of those times, and it was pretty tasty too! #ipa #beer #pulpfiction

Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #PulpFiction #QuentinTarantino 32 Years Later, Quentin Tarantino's 154-Minute Crime Masterpiece Officially Returns to Streaming http://dlvr.it/TTpQHN

Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 4, no. 2 (June 1942)

I have to say the imagery of her pose and the many stars floating around says more night-club to me, but the intensity of those people at the bottom is all witch-hunt.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v04_n02_1942-06.Munsey_dtsg0318-Anon

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Weird Tales vol. 32, no. 1 (July 1938)

That old guy looks like Vincent Schiavelli, is it just me?

Rather contrived arrangement of figures, just to hide the nudity.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v32n01_1938-07

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Creepy no. 51 (1973)

There's something uniquely horrible about burning at the stake for me, so thumbs down right away, but there's a creepiness about the little girl watching which takes it even further.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-051

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