The Blue Tropics – Fantastic Adventures April 1940
Cover art for James Norman's 'The Blue Tropics,' depicting a world beneath Antarctica. Three fur-clad polar explorers flee across a steaming prehistoric jungle as a massive pterodactyl swoops down with claws bared. Their crashed or grounded red spherical craft rests in the undergrowth behind them. Frank R. Paul's vivid painting contrasts icy exteriors with a lush, hidden tropical realm, embodying the pulp fascination with lost worlds and Mesozoic survivors hidden beneath the polar ice.
A tropical dinosaur hellscape hidden under Antarctica — and these three saps just parked their ship right in the middle of it! Buy this issue or admit you don't have a pulse.
“NORRIS TAPLEY'S SIXTH SENSE by ED EARL REPP Fantastic Adventures APRIL 20c SEE BACK COVER The BLUE TROPICS ADVENTURE IN A WORLD BENEATH ANTARCTICA by JAMES NORMAN AND STORIES BY NELSON S. BOND ROBERT BLOCH JOHN YORK CABOT PAUL”
