Rampaging Robot Attacks Lab, Startling Stories January 1939 Cover
A menacing bronze-hued robot with articulated skeletal limbs fires deadly energy beams from its fingertips, blasting a hapless scientist in a chaotic laboratory setting — the quintessential mad-science scenario of Golden Age pulp. Bubbling chemical apparatus, a coiled orange energy conduit, and a woman trapped beneath a glass bell jar amplify the sense of technological terror. The robot's looming scale dwarfs the human figures, embodying 1930s anxieties about machine intelligence run amok.
Holy smokes — that robot is zapping a guy right in the chest and there's a dame trapped under a glass jar! I'm buying every issue of Startling Stories from now on, this cover is the bee's knees!
“STARTLING STORIES JAN. 15¢ A NOVEL OF THE FUTURE COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE! SCIENTIFICTION AT ITS BEST A THRILLING PUBLICATION FEATURING: THE BLACK FLAME A Book-Length Novel of the "Land of Time to Come" By STANLEY G. WEINBAUM ALSO MANY OTHER STORIES & FEATURES ALBERT EINSTEIN — HIS LIFE STORY TOLD IN PICTURES! JAN. 1939”
