Frank R. Paul's NYC Glacial Catastrophe, Amazing Stories January 1926
Like Paul's other early Amazing Stories covers depicting civilization under siege, this January 1926 image delivers catastrophe on a grand scale — Manhattan's skyscrapers, including a recognizable Woolworth Building, are crushed and tilted by advancing glaciers and churning ice. The bold, almost naive perspective and garish primary colors are quintessential Paul, conveying geological violence with breathless urgency. It remains one of the most dramatic disaster visions in early American pulp illustration.
Manhattan being crushed by glaciers is an irresistible newsstand image — pure geological terror rendered in lurid color. Paul's maximalist disaster vision would stop any passerby cold.
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