Amazing Stories December 1941 — Space Pilot Races Past Earth in Golden Rocketship
Personal spacecraft technology takes center stage as a lone pilot grips the steering wheel of a sleek, open-cockpit golden rocketship hurtling through space, its transparent bubble canopy catching starlight. A rival red torpedo-shaped vessel streaks past in the upper left while two smaller craft orbit a green-blue Earth below. The composition captures the pulp dream of individualized space travel — a future where anyone could pilot their own ship between worlds like a sports car driver on a cosmic highway.
A guy driving his own rocket through space like it's a hot rod — and there's already a chase happening with that red ship! I'd spend my whole allowance just to find out what's on Planetoid 88.
“BANDITS OF TIME by Ray Cummings See Back Cover AMAZING STORIES DECEMBER 20c The Secret of PLANETOID 88 By ED EARL REPP”
