Worlds of IF (April 1956)

There's a good essay out there about why the bad guys in some SF/Fantasy tend to be effeminate dandies with elaborate hair and clothes. Someone find it?

The story I'm getting is … the woman is going to be executed by firing squad? But Evil Liberace wants to do it personally?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1956-04_IF_modified

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Worlds of IF (August 1974)

Seems like a mixture of Conan and also Terminator. Some actor could love that the role, but can't think of anyone off the top of my head.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1974-08_IF

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Weird Tales vol. 7, no. 1 (January 1926)

A man is having his soul stolen by an overhead projector, apparently, and placed in a bubble. Good visuals but would be better cropped and zoomed in, less furniture around the outside.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV07N01192601

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Weird Tales vol. 15, no. 2 (February 1930)

Thirsty Blades, good name for a band? Gay nightclub?

This has lots of good elements but a rather uncomfortable composition, needs more depth or a different angle.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v15n02_1930-02_sas

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Amazing Stories vol. 17, no. 7 (July 1943)

Is the woman in the back a carbon copy of the woman in the front? Or wait, the guy is the carbon-copier, he copies woman and she's stopping him. He's new to the carbon-copy-killing business because he's still looking at the instruction manual.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v17n07_1943-07_cape1736

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