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Imagination vol. 4, no. 2 (February 1953)

This is curious—not the frisbee space ships, but the fact that someone's reading about the alien invasion via a bell-jar ticker-tape machine which surely would have been antique, even in 1953?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Imagination_v04n02_1953-02_UnkSc-cape1736

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Earth is seen from space, a bright red disk-shaped ship moving toward it, other similar ships ahead of it. In the foreground a different scene superimposed—someone is reading a ticker-tape with the words "EARTH ALERT" on it.
Imagination Magazine cover from 1953.

Worlds of IF (October 1964)

This is great, isn't it? The colours are so powerful you need a second to grasp what's going on from the reflections.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1964-10_IF

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A helmeted figure in bright red and white is seen in extreme close-up, mouth open apparently in a shout; seen in the reflective surface of his goggles is a figure with pointed ears and a ribbed torso holding a futuristic pistol.
Worlds of IF magazine cover from 1964.

Avon Science Fiction And Fantasy Reader vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1953)

I took one look and thought ”she's a mermaid, OK” but then, no, the other guy is half-horse, which is not a thing? They're changing as they pass through the translucent thing?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Avon_Science_Fiction_And_Fantasy_Reader_v01n02_1953-04_qshadow-cape1736

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Two figures pass horizontally through what looks like a pane of glass, one of them has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse, the other the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a fish. A stylised depiction of some kind of structure on latticed legs is also seen.
Magazine cover from 1953.

Weird Tales vol. 34, no. 1 (June 1939)

I can't even figure out which of the stories mentioned this illustrates, but … probably not “Horror in the New York subways”? Although it is a subterranean setting.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV34N0119390607

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IN the background a man in Renaissance-era clothing holds a torch in one hand and a rapier in the other as he explores a cave. A skeleton is at his feet and various dinosaur and gargoyle creatures are in the foreground.
Weird Tales magazine cover from 1939.

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Weird Tales vol. 23, no. 4 (April 1934)

Wow, two offensive racial stereotypes for the price of one. Say the word and I'll delete this one and we shall never speak of it again.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTales193404damagedIBCATLPM

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A Black man with a whip menaces a white woman in harem clothing in a garden setting, a stylised floating image of a middle-eastern-looking turbaned man in the background.
Weird Tales magazine cover from 1934.

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Worlds of IF (February 1967)

Oof, that's going to leave a mark. I can't believe I'm saying this but I think this is TOO diagonal for me.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1967-02_IF

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A figure in a space suit, on a blue planet surface against a green sky, drops a pistol as it is shot with a beam weapon by a figure whose helmet has bug-like antennae.
Worlds of IF magazine cover from 1967.

Imagination vol. 4, no. 5 (June 1953)

“Star Lord”, now that's a great name for the hero of a story set in space! Some kind of Guardian of the Galaxy even?

This is terrific—so much action, and the composition is tantalising. Their hands are so close but not touching.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Imagination_v04n05_1953-06_cape1736

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A male and female figure reach out their hands to each other from diagonal corners of the image, their clothing torn, as a space ship explodes behind them. Multiple other figures are floating in space near the exploding ship.
Magazine cover from 1953.

Science Fiction Stories vol. 10, no. 4 (September 1959)

Another one where the publishers have gone "this is a bit meh, what if we invert everything?". I'm most interested in the bottom right vignette with the meeting between the human and the aliens, which is taking place in one inch of water.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Stories_v10n04_1959-09_LennyS-cape1736

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Three separate vignettes of: a woman grabbed by a six-armed humanoid monster; a woman grabbed by a crab-like robot; a meeting between a space suited figure and two alien creatures, water at their feet.
Science Fiction Stories magazine cover from 1959.

New Worlds vol. 6, no. 16 (July 1952)

Rather dull compared to some of the insanity in these covers but artistic and with that kind of off-kilter composition which is apparently typical of this magazine.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_016v06_1952-07

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A figure with multiple ellipses around a central point, as in a planetary system or atom, contains a scene of a launch pad at night with a silver rocket ship. This is superimposed on a scene with a red sky and interconnected spheres, a futuristic tower, and tropical-looking trees.
New Worlds magazine cover from 1952.

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Astounding vol. 43, no. 6 (August 1949)

There is a lot going on here, isn't there? This actually looks like a guy I know so it's even weirder for me, but … is he medieval? Why does he have an artist's palette on his, I want to say "tabard"? Is he wearing a wristwatch? And of course what does his ominous shadow tell us?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v43n06_1949-08_cape1736

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A figure with green hair wearing medieval clothing has a sword, a cigar in one hand, and a drawing of an artist's palette on his tunic. However his shadow, cast on a scene with a middle-eastern city on a hill, differs from his appearance, as it has a machine gun.
Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1949.

New Worlds vol. 12, no. 35 (May 1955)

I don't know if my interpretation is right but the person in the foreground is wearing a different type of suit to the one in the background and that looks like a spaceship not a submarine, so maybe the ship crashed in the sea and the white-suit guy is rescuing the red-suit guy?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_035v12_1955-05

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An underwater scene with tropical fish, some kind of craft on the sea bed in the background, and an unconscious-looking figure in a suit which is leaking bubbles, another figure in a different kind of suit approaching in the middle distance.
New Worlds magazine cover from 1955.

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Creepy no. 63 (1974)

The artist chose a great angle for this, but then again if you're going to show someone being attacked by creepy dolls … which reminds me, if you don't know Jonathan Coulton's song “Creepy Doll” check it out, it's terrific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgfklKnOg4w

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-063

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A man in suit, waistcoat and tie is being attacked from below by multiple sinister-looking dolls.
Creepy magazine cover 1974.

Amazing Stories vol. 33, no. 3 (March 1959)

It's not just a stylised image which looks like a roughly-textured wall: it actually IS a wall? You can see the shadow of the ship against it. Maybe that's the "Asimov surprise"?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v33n03_1959-03

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