Fantastic Adventures Oct 1940s 'Witch of the Andes' Fantasy Cover with Giant Nymph

Surprisingly sensual for mainstream newsstand fare, this cover features a colossal golden-haired nude nymph emerging from a rainbow-lit waterfall, her impossible scale dwarfing the sword-wielding fairies and cloaked figures scrambling at her feet. The lush Andean jungle setting, complete with iridescent butterflies and mossy rockfaces, frames a scene that blurs pulp fantasy, mythology, and barely-veiled pinup art — a combination that Fantastic Adventures perfected with gleeful shamelessness throughout the 1940s.