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"What are you working on?"

I put the soldering iron on its stand and inspected my work.

"A time travel receiver. I figured out the machine can't travel in time itself."

"Do you have a transmitter too?"

I plugged the power in. "Not yet."

A newspaper appeared in the machine.

"I will, next year."

Amazing Stories vol. 14, no. 6 1940 6 (June 1940)

Logically, this is the Titan story because that's Saturn in the sky? Love the alien and its crazy tentacle arms. Bit puzzled by the primitive spears being held by the space guys.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v14n06_1940-06

Two human figures in space suits, carrying spears, look up at a tall spindly alien creature more than twice their height. A space ship and pointed mountains are visible in the background and Saturn is seen in the sky. Amazing Stories magazine cover from 1940.

Fantastic Adventures vol. 10, no. 6 (June 1948)

This creature should be more scary but its big bulging eye is goofy and it is literally toothless. It's going to gum you to death. I feel the whole thing may just be a misunderstanding.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v10n06_1948-06_unz.org

Native Americans with canoes are being attacked by a huge serpent-like creature rising from the water with a horn on its head. Fantastic Adventures magazine cover from 1948.

Amazing Stories vol. 4, no. 6 (September 1929)

I assume that the craft bottom right is "us" and the Evil TV Remote Craft are invading aliens? Even the "us" one is pretty futuristic, and its weapon for some reason is mounted at the rear, firing forward.

Back then there were no conventions for this kind of thing.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v04n06_1929-09_jvh-sas

A futuristic aircraft with propellers/rotors is firing a beam weapon at another flying object, a rectangle with a grid of yellow circles or possibly holes. Searchlights are coming up from below. Amazing Stories magazine cover from 1929.

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

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.

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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Weird Tales vol. 39, no. 4 (March 1946)

I really don't like this artist or style, but I can't stop looking at it, which I guess means the understood the assignment, as the kids say. "Ominous omens" AND "double-evil"? Don't threaten me with a good time.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n04_1946-03

A night-time scene of a skeletal knight on the back of a skeletal horse, beneath a tree with a vulture looking down. Weird Tales magazine cover from 1946.

Fantastic Adventures vol. 2, no. 3 (March 1940)

Wow, pretty violent. That's an old-fashioned ink pen, one you need to dip into ink? Gruesome. Maybe a coin wasn't the best shield. That monocled, sinister figure is actually right there watching them? The lighting makes it seem like maybe he's superimposed, not actually present.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v02n03_1940-03_cape1736

A sinister figure, dramatically lit from below, looks down at people much smaller than him: two men, one of whom is stabbing the other with a giant (to him, regular size for the watching man) ink pen like a spear. A woman is running toward the two men and another figure is supine behind her. Fantastic Adventures magazine cover from 1940.

Trovato in una cabina telefonica a Portoferraio. La prima volta che ho letto Van Vogt è stato più o meno 40 anni fa, in piena adolescenza, quando ho divorato tutti i volumi dell'Editrice Nord. Non ricordavo che la fantascienza USA (lui era canadese...) degli anni '50 potesse essere così innovativa e originale. E le edizioni Libra hanno sempre queste copertine deliziosamente vintage. Perfetto per il mare.

Copertina libro A.E Van Vogt "Le armi di Isher"