by Gil Kane
This cover is from 1973. I think there’s a lesson here about the granting people their final wishes and also avoiding open casket funerals, especially if the deceased has reason to be angry with you.
by Sam Cherry
He’s getting the point.
by James Avati
The sure hand of God says someone’s going to Hell and it’s not going to be the two women who are NOT lurking outside someone else’s window. This cover is from 1953.
by Paul Orban
First published in 1930 and still going today under the name Analog, Astounding has had many different names of the past 94 years but one thing that has always remained consistent has been the strong covers. Below, for your October pleasure, is just a tiny sampling of the astounding covers of Astounding!
by William Timmins
by Hans W. Wessolowski
by Hans W. Wessolowski
by Howard V. Brown
by Hans W. Wessolowski
by Hans W. Wessolowski
by Howard V. Brown
by Hans W. Wessolowski
by Frank Kelly Freas
by Paul Orban
by Harry Lemon Parkhurst
This cover from 1940 is a reminder that there’s nothing scarier than snakes.
by Edmund Emshwiller
Such violence! This cover is from 1956.
Artist Unknown
I had never heard of a pulp magazine called Psycho before. I don’t know much about this magazine’s content, other than that this issue is from 1974.
by A.R. Tilburne
I picked this cover because of the cat.
by Doris Stanley
I don’t know what good the gun is going to do in this situation. This cover is from 1929.
Artist Unknown
There weren’t too many thrills. This magazine was published once in 1939 and that was it.
Through the Shattered Lens