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I can only imagine this unidentified cover artist's research file on this one... Avon No. 324 - The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt, 1951.

In the far-flung future, battles will be fought much the way they were a thousand years ago, without ray-guns, but instead swords... and close up, such that you can see the hairs stand up on your green-skinned opponent when you score the death-stroke... Avon Fantasy Reader No. 17, 1951. Cover art by Harry Barton.

The technology to produce ray-guns apparently advances at a greater clip than the technology that drives modesty in women's clothing. Once again, the future of fashion seems to lie in metallic bust cups. Sojarr of Titan - Prize Science Fiction Novels No. 11, 1949.

Quite the strange cover here - from those pairs of fortuitously-placed flowers to the winged dragon fellow who appears like he just wants to dance. Avon Fantasy Reader No. 9, 1949 - featuring stories by Clarke Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, Jr., and others.

Black knight to white queen - check. Infinity - October 1956 issue. Cover art by Emsh (Ed Emshwiller).

Well, the colonists are all yellow and sort of diminutive. Other than that, I'd say the test is running smoothly... If - September 1954 issue. Cover art by Max Reach.

Satellite Science Fiction - December 1958 issue. Cover art by John Styga.

Fantastic Science Fiction - May 1962 issue. Cover art by George Schelling.

Fantastic Science Fiction - August 1955 issue. Cover art by Ed Valigursky.

From this delightfully naive cover treatment to the 80's movie "Weird Science" and beyond, geeks everywhere, ironically armed with the very science which alienates them, realize an ages-old dream. Fantastic Science Fiction - November 1957 issue. Cover art by Ed Valigursky.

It's hard to imagine a more striking cover than this fantastic entrant by Lawrence - a return to the days of Ruben's baroque masterpiece, "The Fall of the Damned." Famous Fantastic Mysteries - August 1946 issue. Cover art by Lawrence (Sterne Stevens).