Worlds of IF (December 1969)

I like this style, if only because of nostalgia for the 70s. Is there a name for this kind of abstract, super-saturated artwork?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1969-12_IF

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Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.

[Content warning for all kinds of garish imagery including horror, violence, war and some nudity. Racial stereotypes crop up from time to time.]

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Creepy no. 01 (1964)

Creepy number one! Nice design, somehow scary and cosy at the same time, funny but the monsters etc. are still a little scary.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/warrencreepy-001

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Worlds of IF (September 1954)

Weird little golden naked people who live in the jungle. I'm here for it. Even their eyes are golden? I have questions about how that would work.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1954-09_IF

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Worlds of IF (August 1971)

Love the simplicity, but I'm left with questions about how it works, there's no saddle, no reins etc. Are they just friends? He's just giving his lizard friend a scritch?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1971-08_IF

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Wonder Stories vol. 6, no. 3 v2 (August 1934)

Lots of cool angles here, gives it an uneasy feeling. No idea how that contraption works or what stops the guys falling off it. The dragon takes a dim view of it too.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Wonder_Stories_v06n03_1934-08_v2

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Amazing Stories vol. 5, no. 6 (September 1930)

The guy looking out of the window is rotated 15º anticlockwise but the Chrysler building [the Empire State wasn't finished when this magazine came out] is slanted 30º clockwise. This is genius because, which way is up, literally?

A classic of the genre.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v05n06_1930-09_Qshadow-cape1736

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Science Fiction Stories vol. 9, no. 1 (July 1958)

Action packed or what? Hard to see how anyone can survive it, anyway.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Stories_v09n01_1958-07_LennyS-cape1736

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Astounding vol. 22, no. 3 (November 1938)

I genuinely don't know what's going on here. Jupiter, rotated ninety degrees, fine, but what's happening at the top? It's in shadow but there's a planet visible in the shadow? This is like when a star can be seen in the dark part of a crescent moon, it doesn't make sense.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v22n03_1938-11

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