Amazing Stories Feb 1932 – Robots & Winged Alien on Double Sun Planet
0 views
Share:Save

Amazing Stories Feb 1932 – Robots & Winged Alien on Double Sun Planet

A chrome-jointed robot soars on bat-like mechanical wings above a canyon alien world bathed in vivid oranges and blues. Below, a hulking machine with a great wheel dominates the foreground alongside a smaller robot figure. The alien landscape features strange cone-shaped flora and towering rust-colored cliffs, evoking Neil R. Jones's 'The Planet of the Double Sun' with maximum pulp theatricality and vibrant gouache color.

Category: Magazine Cover
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Artist: Leo Morey
Era: Pulp Era (1920s-1940s)
Decade: 1930s
Country: United States
Coolness: 8/10

A glorious riot of mechanical men and alien vistas dripping with that signature Amazing Stories chromatic fever. Leo Morey at his most kinetic — you can almost hear the gears grinding and wings flapping.

Text in image:

AMaZING STORIES FEBRUARY 25 Cents The Planet of the Double Sun by Neil R. Jones Other Scientific fiction by: Capt. S. P. Meek, U.S.A. Murray Leinster

More Magazine Cover