Ice City of the Gorgon – Amazing Stories June 1948 Cover Art
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Ice City of the Gorgon – Amazing Stories June 1948 Cover Art

Likely painted by Robert Gibson Jones or a contemporary Amazing Stories cover artist working in the lush, romanticized pulp gouache tradition of the late 1940s, this vivid cover depicts a fur-clad explorer reaching toward a luminous nude blonde woman encased or emerging from a towering column of ice, with a frozen alien city of monolithic spires receding into a snowy mountain landscape behind him — classic Shaver Mystery era imagery blending prehistoric awe with sci-fi menace.

Category: Magazine Cover
Source: Internet Archive
Artist: Robert Gibson Jones
Era: Pulp Era (1920s-1940s)
Decade: 1940s
Country: United States
Coolness: 8/10

More Shaver Mystery madness than standard pulp fare — the combination of a nude ice-imprisoned woman, a desperate fur-clad hero, and a horizon full of alien monoliths cranks the pulp dial firmly into fever-dream territory.

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AMAZING STORIES June 25¢ Ice City of the Gorgon by Richard S. Shaver and Chester S. Geier

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