Earle Bergey's Otho Robot Battles Dragon, Startling Stories Spring 1945
A gleaming steel robot — Otho, the android companion of Captain Future — locks deadly claws around the snapping jaws of a scaled alien dragon-beast while a dark-haired woman in gold jewelry and scanty dress recoils in terror at its feet. The fiery orange alien sky amplifies the chaos. This is peak wartime pulp science fiction: chrome musculature, reptilian menace, and imperiled beauty colliding in a single breathless moment of interplanetary combat.
Oh my stars, this is the holy trinity of pulp: a chrome robot, a snarling space dragon, AND a damsel in distress — all on one cover! Bergey was absolutely cooking on a wartime deadline and somehow made it MORE unhinged than usual.
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