Two Complete Science-Adventure Books #4 Winter 1951: Wells & De Camp
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Two Complete Science-Adventure Books #4 Winter 1951: Wells & De Camp

Time travel and sword-and-sorcery collide on this split-composition pulp cover showcasing two complete novels. The upper panel evokes H.G. Wells' time-displacement technology with a wide-eyed woman in a futuristic helmet amid luminous machinery, while the lower panel plunges into L. Sprague de Camp's bronze-age fantasy world, featuring a commanding warrior queen in armor wielding a spear over a crouching male figure against vivid blue and gold drapery. Classic pulp visual storytelling at its most theatrical.

Category: Magazine Cover
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Era: Atomic Age (1945-1963)
Decade: 1950s
Country: United States
Coolness: 8/10

A whole quarter for TWO complete novels — one with a gal in a space helmet looking scared out of her wits, and another with a gorgeous Amazon warrior queen stomping on some poor sap! This is the best deal at the newsstand by a mile!

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$5.00 VALUE FOR 25¢ | Two Complete Science-Adventure Books | No. 4 WINTER | Book No. 1 H. G. WELLS' famed novel THE TIME MACHINE | Book No. 2 The TRITONIAN RING by SPRAGUE DE CAMP | A.H.C.

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