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Here Are Some Of The Amazing Covers of Amazing Stories

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by Robert Gibson Jones

First published in 1926, Amazing Stories was the first magazine to be devoted to science fiction and it’s still going, nearly 100 years later!  There have been many amazing covers over the course of this magazine’s history.  Here are just a few of them.

by Arnold Kohn

by Ed Valigursky

by Frank R. Paul

by H.R. Hammond

by Harold W. McCauley

by J. Allen St. John

by Leo Morey

by Robert Frank

by Robert Fuqua

by Robert Gibson Jones

The Futuristic Covers of Future Science Fiction

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January, 1954. Artwork by Alex Schomburg

Future Science Fiction was a magazine that started in 1939 and was initially published until 1943.  The World War II paper shortage brought the magazine to a temporary end but, in 1950, the magazine was relaunched and ran for another ten years.  Future featured stories about aliens, different worlds, and future wars.  Writers such as Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, and Philip K. Dick appeared in the magazine.  Today, though, the magazine is best remembered for covers that brought a distinct pulp sensibility to the science fiction genre.

Here are just a few of the covers of Future Science Fiction.

March, 1939. Artwork by Frank R. Paul

August, 1942. Artwork by John Forte, Jr.

October, 1942. Cover by Hannes Bok

August, 1950. Artwork by Earle Bergey

October, 1950. Artwork by Leo Morey

March, 1951. Artwork by Milton Luros

1952, September. Artwork by Peter Poulton

1954, March. Artwork by Alex Schomburg

Summer, 1957. Artwork by Frank Kelly Freas

February, 1959. Artwork by Edmund Emshwiller

June, 1959. Artwork by Virgil Finlay

February, 1960. Artwork by Paul Orban

The Stirring Covers of Stirring Science Stories

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Stirring Science Stories was one of the many adventure and science fiction-themed pulp magazines to be published in the 40s.  Among those who contributed stories to Stirring Science Stories were Frederik Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth, Robert W. Lowndes, and Donald Wollheim.  Unfortunately, the stories did not stir readers and the magazine only ran for four issues, from February 0f 1941 to March of 1942.  Though the magazine did not last for long, it’s remembered for its four distinctive covers.

To me, it appears that the covers got progressively darker as the series continued.  Take a look at them below and see if you agree.

by Leo Morey

by Hannes Bok

by Hannes Bok

by Hannes Bok

The Out Of This World Covers Of The Pulps

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by Leo Morey

Years before any whistleblowers testified at any Congressional hearings about crashed UFOS and “non-human remains,” the pulps told the world all that it needed to know about spaceships, aliens, and what lies beyond the Milky Way.  Here’s a small sampling of the out of this world covers of the pulps (and one comic book that I included because I liked the cover)!

by Albert Drake

by Carmine Infantino

by Edmund Emshwiller

by Frank R. Paul

by Fred Kirberger

by Leo Morey

by Leo Morey

by Lou Morales

by Mel Hunter

by Peter Poulton

by Robert Gibson Jones

by Virgil Finlay

Prepare For The Future With The Covers Of Science Fiction Quarterly

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by Edmund Emshwiller

Science Fiction Quarterly began it’s initial run in 1940 and, with the world distracted by war in the present, it ceased publication in 1943.  However, once the war was over and people were once again looking to the future, Science Fiction Quarterly was revived in 1951 and ran until 1958.  Over the course of its run, it published many of the current and future “big names” in science fiction.  Isaac Asimon, Arthur C. Clarke, James Blish, and Donald Wolheim were among the writers whose work appeared in the pages of Science Fiction Quarterly.  When Science Fiction Quarterly ceased publication in 1958, it was the last of the science fiction pulp magazines.  When there were no more issues of Science Fiction Quarterly, it was the end of the era but, considering the future success of the magazine’s writers, it would also be the beginning of a new age.

With 2020 soon coming to a close, now seems like a good time to look to the future with the covers of Science Fiction Quarterly.

by A. Leslie Ross

by Alex Schomburg

by Allen Gustav Anderson

by Edmund Emshwiller

by Edmund Emswhiller

by Frank Kelly Freas

by Frank Kelly Freas

by Frank R. Paul

by Jack Binder

by Leo Morey

by Milton Luros

by Milton Luros

by Milton Luros

Artist Profile: Leo Morey (1899 — 1965)

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Born in Peru to a well-off family, Leo Morey wanted to be an artist from his earliest years.  However, his father had other plans and insisted that Leo become an engineer.  At the age of 19, Leo set sail for the United States, where he studied at School of Engineering at Louisiana State University.  Morey graduated, with a degree in engineering, in 1922 but by 1932 he was living in New York City and making his living as an illustrator.  Though Morey worked in all the pulp genres, he was best known and best regarded for his science fiction work.  Morey worked through the mid-60s and is today considered to be one of the best of the pulp era science fiction illustrators.

Check out some of his work below: