Amazing Stories June 1927 – Eyeball Creatures Attack, Frank R. Paul Cover
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Amazing Stories June 1927 – Eyeball Creatures Attack, Frank R. Paul Cover

More frenetic than Paul's comparatively stately planetary vistas for early Amazing Stories, this June 1927 cover erupts with swirling bioluminescent eyeball creatures attacking a white-coated scientist brandishing a pistol, while a red-skinned alien and a glowing ethereal woman loom behind a crowd of goggle-eyed green aliens. The lurid purple sky, coiling tentacular eye-monsters, and desperate human defender encapsulate Hugo Gernsback's editorial mission to make scientifiction viscerally thrilling on the newsstand.

Category: Magazine Cover
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Artist: Frank R. Paul
Era: Pulp Era (1920s-1940s)
Decade: 1920s
Country: United States of America
Coolness: 9/10

Swirling eyeball tentacle monsters, a gun-toting scientist, a glowing nude apparition, red aliens, and a horde of bug-eyed creatures — all crammed into one fever-pitched purple composition. This cover would stop a newsstand browser cold at twenty paces.

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June | WRNY | 25 Cents | AMAZING STORIES | HUGO GERNSBACK EDITOR | Stories by H.G. WELLS | A. MERRITT | CYRIL G. WATES | EXPERIMENTER PUBLISHING COMPANY, NEW YORK, PUBLISHERS OF: RADIO NEWS · SCIENCE & INVENTION · RADIO LISTENERS' GUIDE · AMAZING STORIES · MONEY MAKING · RADIO INTERNACIONAL

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