Astounding vol. 51, no. 3 (May 1953)

This is both ugly and incomprehensible, so yeah. I can't find anything to like here at all. Which I suppose makes it unique among all the thousands of images posted by this account?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v51n03_1953-05_cape1736

Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 9, no. 5 (June 1948)

Wow, this is pretty wild. Lots of places in the UK are called "The Devil's Punchbowl" but this is very literal. He's going to eat the angel first and leave the regular humans with no wings for later?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v09n05_1948-06_TroutBreath

Creepy no. 103 (1978)

“Animals breaking out from a travelling circus” was a staple of the pulp literature I read as a little kid, but I'm guessing their red eyes are an indication of something a bit more supernatural?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-103

Worlds of IF (July 1954)

“That's right, Billy, these are the ships which will launch against the Russkies and precipitate a global nuclear apocalypse!”

“Golly gee grandpa, that's so neat! Hey what does this button do?”

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1954-07_IF

Astounding vol. 28, no. 2 (October 1941)

I really like this one. Has he just appeared through a portal—that blue light—or is he about to explode? Either way the twin guys on either side of him are desperate to be elsewhere ASAP,

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v28n02_1941-10

Astounding vol. 62, no. 3 (November 1958)

Two old friends talking about their jobs as, I'm guessing, space ship captains? They don't seem very happy, do they, despite the beers they're having. There's a clue in the story title but it just makes it more puzzling.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v62n03_1958-11_EXciter-LennyS

Amazing Stories vol. 7, no. 6 (September 1932)

I can't quite be sure what he's looking at here—some sort of forge/foundry in which a mechanical process is taking place? Maybe he's looking down at a fiery planet/sun? His expression does a lot of work here.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v07n06_1932-09_cape1736

Weird Tales vol. 21, no. 3 (March 1933)

No subtlety here, just plain nudity, though the angle/posture is very careful I guess. She has amazing hair. Society was obsessed with red hair back then, right? Nowadays it's scorned. Who are our red-haired role models? Julianne Moore? Ellie Kemper?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV21N03193303

Fantastic Adventures vol. 12, no. 5 (May 1950)

Evil plants! Always fun.

Whoever drew this very fit, very attractive damsel in distress went down to the millimetre in portraying her bikini top, didn't they? It's somehow more sexy than just drawing her topless, drawing the moment just before.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v12n05_1950-05_cape1736

Amazing Stories vol. 14, no. 4 (April 1940)

I love the drama here and how bright the colours are; also the fact that everything's diagonal totally ramps up the action. I could wish for the Fish Man Of Venus to look less goofy and apologetic though.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v14n04_1940-04_cape1736

Amazing Stories vol. 9, no. 3 (July 1934)

I really like how the aliens are seen from the back only and we have to guess at what's going on with their … faces? Front … body parts?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v09n03_1934-07_Gorgon776_-ibc_bc

Weird Tales vol. 26, no. 6 (December 1935)

He really doesn't seem very happy about being rescued by this very attractive young harem girl, does he? He's all whatevs, just get me out of here, lady.

I'm sure this wasn't the artist's intention but that skull looks like it's chomping on him, nom nom nom.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v26n06_1935-12_sas_-783-784_ifcibc

Astonishing Stories vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1940)

The woman here is curiously Disneyfied here, her eyes are almost manga/animé size, and her hand/arm are in a very uncomfortable position, possibly to gratify armpit fetishists. What on earth is going on on that monitor?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/astonishing-stories-v-01-n-02-1940-04

Out Of This World Adventures vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1950)

This image is annoyingly low-res: what's on her head/what's going on with her hairstyle? His helmet? What's the deal with her … I want to say hand-lingerie?

I'm going to guess this magazine didn't last long, I've never heard of it.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Out_Of_This_World_Adventures_v01n01_1950-07

Thrilling Wonder Stories vol. 25, no. 3 (1944)

Women of Mastodon, talk me through this whole metal brassiere situation we have here. How comfortable would you feel being rescued from alien walruses in this little item? Maybe that expression of anguish on her face isn't about the walri at all.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v25n03_1944-Spring

Amazing Stories vol. 10, no. 9 (April 1936)

I love this style/artist, particularly the bulbous, generous curves of the space ship contrasted with the sharp-edged, pointy robots disembarking from it.

Are the originals of these covers out there somewhere?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v10n09_1936-04

Universe #4 (March 1954)

This seems like a classical scene with nymphs (!) bathing in a waterfall, but why it is so brightly lit in red? Maybe it's on Mars. Her hair bothers me.
Lots of these stories are about travelling in space/to remote places/through time and meeting comely young maidens.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Universe_04_1954-03_LennyS-EXciter

Astounding vol. 43, no. 4 (June 1949)

Hmm, not sure what's going on here exactly. But it's kind of hypnotic, looking at it to try and make sense of it.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v43n04_1949-06_cape1736

Worlds of IF (August 1973)

This is kind of nicely ambiguous, those figures silhouetted against the moon could be just going about their business or the floating one could be in real trouble.

Is that the moon, i.e. "our" moon, Luna?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1973-08_IF

Amazing Stories vol. 2, no. 12 (March 1928)

OK this is wild. Not a horrible depiction of asian people, I guess? But full of clichés anyway. I think the most unusual thing about it is the hooded onlookers, somewhere between Muslims and Ninjas.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v02n12_1928-03_sas