Chemical Vampire Mad Scientist Cover, Amazing Stories March 1940s
A wild-eyed scientist leans hungrily over a bubbling laboratory tableau, his grin hinting he's crossed a line science was never meant to cross. Suspended in a towering column of glowing blue liquid, a miniaturized woman looks on — creation or victim? Vivid red and blue chemical apparatus steams and churns around him, the equipment of a man who tried to create life but conjured something far more sinister. This is pulp mad-science at its most lurid and irresistible.
Oh buddy, this one has EVERYTHING — a leering scientist, a woman trapped in a glowing tube, and a title that literally includes the word 'Vampire.' This is the cover that made mothers hide their sons' magazine stashes!
“STRANGE STORIES THAT PROPHESY THE FUTURE! Amazing Stories MARCH 25¢ THE CHEMICAL VAMPIRE by LEE FRANCIS HE TRIED TO CREATE LIFE — BUT IT WAS REALLY DEATH!”
