Science Fiction Quarterly No.1 Summer 1940 – Planet Collision Cover

A planet is being torn apart — its crust cracking open in a catastrophic explosion of molten rock and superheated gas as a jagged, barnacled asteroid bears down from upper left. The Earth-like globe splits at the seams, continents visible on its rupturing surface, while a ringed planet looms in the dark void behind. This is cosmic annihilation rendered in lurid oranges and purples, the kind of end-of-the-world spectacle that made pulp covers impossible to walk past on a newsstand.