WEIRD TALES VOL 8 #6 Magazine Cover

 

The daddy of the fantasy magazines, Rural Publishing's Weird Tales was at the vanguard of science fiction and horror pulp for much of the twenties and thirties before it was overtaken during World War II. Before then however the contents were written by some incredible talent, including Robert Bloch, Nictzin Dyalhis, Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn and H P Lovecraft. The original magazine folded in 1954, though a zombie version is still running.

My Greatest Adventure #52 cover

Good grief indeed. Dick Dillin really nails the sort of expression likely if your head turned into a sun and melted everything around you.

Fantastic Adventures Vol. 1 #3 Life on Mercury art

Frank R Paul's wonderfully imaginative speculative art of creatures from various celestial bodies enlivened many an early edition of Fantastic Adventures. This piece of a Mercurian graced the rear cover of the September 1939 edition.

Mechanix Illustrated June 1959 magazine cover

Artist Frank Tinsley's vision of the future really was a lot more interesting than anything boring old reality managed.