Super-Science Fiction April 1959 — Tentacled Monster Attacks Astronauts on Alien World
A towering, pale tentacled monstrosity looms over a crimson alien landscape, its Cthulhu-like facial tendrils writhing as it snatches a helpless spacesuited astronaut in its grip while others scramble desperately across the rocky terrain below. The creature's elongated humanoid form stretches unnervingly tall, its blank oval eyes conveying alien malevolence. This is the Special Monster Issue — and the cover delivers fully on that lurid promise with maximum extraterrestrial dread.
Oh buddy, this is the REAL DEAL — a Special Monster Issue with a Lovecraftian nightmare the size of a skyscraper snatching spacemen like they're action figures! The tentacle-faced horror against that blood-red alien rockscape is peak late-50s pulp insanity, and I cannot believe someone let this ship to newsstands.
“SPECIAL MONSTER ISSUE! SUPER-SCIENCE FICTION APRIL 35¢ 2ND VAMPIRES From Outer Space BY RICHARD F. WATSON The Abominable Creature BY F. X. FALLON MOURNFUL MONSTER By Dan Malcolm”
