Flying Saucers Obliterate New York — Super Science Stories June 1951

Alien flying saucers swarm over a burning Manhattan, their disc-shaped hulls bristling with illuminated portholes as they unleash devastation upon a recognizable New York skyline — the Empire State Building rising defiantly amid roiling columns of fire and smoke. Energy beams lance across the composition while a city block-by-block grid glows orange below. This is Cold War invasion anxiety rendered in full-throttle pulp chromatics: purple, scarlet, and molten gold screaming off the newsstand.