Amazing Stories Oct 1932: Space-Rocket Murders by Edmond Hamilton — art by Leo Morey — Amazing Stories — 1930s
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Amazing Stories Oct 1932: Space-Rocket Murders by Edmond Hamilton

Breathless adventure radiates from this dynamic October 1932 Amazing Stories cover, depicting propeller-driven aircraft locked in a dizzying aerial chase around a massive ringed sphere hovering above a snow-blanketed polar landscape. Planes labeled 'F35' swarm a mysterious circular launch scaffold below, while a luminous pale globe dominates the sky. The crisp Arctic setting and deco-inflected aircraft design blend grounded 1930s aviation with wild speculative science.

Category: Magazine Cover
Publication: Amazing Stories
Source: Internet Archive
Artist: Leo Morey
Decade: 1930s
Country: United States
Coolness: 7/10

A fleet of 1930s propeller planes is scrambling around a massive ringed alien sphere hovering over the Arctic — apparently linked to a series of 'space-rocket murders,' which is an utterly deranged premise delivered with complete visual sincerity.

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AMazing STORIES OCTOBER 25 Cents Space-Rocket Murders by Edmond Hamilton Other Scientific Fiction by: Charles Cloukey R. I. Melhorn

Public domain. This vintage illustration is free of known copyright restrictions — free to download, share, and reuse for any purpose.

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