Skylark Three Destroys a City — Amazing Stories September 1930
A colossal futuristic spacecraft — the Skylark Three from E.E. 'Doc' Smith's space opera serial — blazes through a city skyline in a catastrophic display of rocket propulsion and energy weapon devastation. Art Deco skyscrapers crumble in walls of flame while a lone figure raises his hands in helpless horror against a window. The dynamic diagonal composition conveys kinetic destruction on a massive scale, capturing the super-science chaos central to Smith's interstellar adventure.
Holy smokes — a whole city's going up in flames and that ship is ENORMOUS! Doc Smith sure knows how to write 'em big, and whoever painted this cover knew exactly what they were doing putting that poor fella's hands up like he can't do a thing about it.
“SEPTEMBER AMAZING STORIES 25 CENTS IN CANADA 30 CENTS SKYLARK THREE by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D Other Scientifiction Stories by: Harl Vincent Fred M. Barclay Isaac R. Nathanson”
