War of the Giant Apes — Fantastic Adventures April 1949 Mind-Control Cover
A colossal albino gorilla, its skull fitted with a Martian mind-control device crackling with electric sparks, rears up in a jungle clearing and prepares to hurl a boulder at a fleeing human. A boxy retro-futuristic control machine bristles with antenna rods beside a crumpled red truck, while a terrified figure scrambles for survival in the truck bed. Mars has invaded Earth not with rockets but with weaponized ape armies — and humanity is losing.
An ALBINO GORILLA with a MARTIAN BRAIN-CONTROL HELMET smashing a truck while a control machine crackles with lightning — this is the absolute apex of late-40s pulp insanity and I am SHAKING. Ziff-Davis was absolutely unhinged in the best possible way and this cover proves it beyond all reasonable doubt.
“SUPER ADVENTURE IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW fantastic ADVENTURES VOLUME 11 NUMBER 4 APRIL 25¢ War of the Giant Apes By ALEXANDER BLADE MARS INVADES THE EARTH BY MIND CONTROL! Fantastic Adventures April 1949”
