Wonder Stories July 1932 — 'The Flight of the Mercury' Aerial Cover Art
Inspired by Charles R. Tanner's 'The Flight of the Mercury,' this blazing cover depicts a streamlined red biplane banking sharply over a gleaming retro-futurist cityscape, its golden propellers and porthole-studded fuselage radiating speed and adventure. Below, an eerie green alien machine on tripod legs looms like a Wellsian war-machine surveying the landscape. Hugo Gernsback's Wonder Stories brings together aviation pulp thrills and science fiction menace in one gloriously vibrant composition.
A screaming-red biplane vs. a Martian war-machine — Gernsback turns the skies into a battlefield and dares you to look away. Buckle up, the Mercury is flying straight into pulp glory.
“MYSTERY-ADVENTURE-ROMANCE July 25 CENTS Canada 30¢ WONDER Stories Hugo Gernsback Editor GERNSBACK PUBLICATION "THE FLIGHT OF THE MERCURY" By CHARLES R. TANNER Other Science Fiction Stories By MILES J. BREUER, M.D. WOOD JACKSON VICTOR A. ENDERSBY”
