#fantastic stories magazine

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Scavengers of Space - art by Ed Valigursky (1955)

[weirdlookindog]

"There on the river bank lay a lovely girl of twenty . . ."

Virgil Finlay (1914-1971) - Illustration for Warren A. Reed's 'Little Yowlie'

(Fantastic Adventures Vol.5 #7, July, 1943)

[themarvelproject]

Galactus and Nova by Bill Sienkiewicz from the cover of Epic Illustrated #26 (1984)

[vertigoartgore]

2019's Fantastic Four Vol.6 #6 (LGY : 651) cover by artist Esad Ribić.

[oakendesk]

Fantastic Story Magazine Jun 1954

Walter Popp

[thefugitivesaint]

Virgil Finlay (1914-1971), ‘The Evening Star’, ''Fantastic Story Magazine'', Vol. 3, #2, 1952 Source

[driveintheaterofthemind]

5 Random Pulps

[siryl]

Illustration by Ed Emshwiller for The Kragen by Jack Vance in the July 1964 issue of Fantastic Stories of Imagination. The novella was published in expanded form the following year as The Blue World.

[mudwerks]

The Dark Fantastic | Cosmopolitan: February 1959

Illustration by Alex Ross

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Magazine - Fantastic Story (Winter1952)

[hopkei]

Random Fanta photos (24/?)

[ladythatsmyskull]

"These balls are making me testy!"

[weirdlookindog]

"The prince found himself looking at a horned woman of a very strange beauty, and she was smiling"

Rod Ruth (1912-1987) - Illustration for Richard S. Shaver's 'The Princess and Her pig'

(Fantastic Adventures Vol.9 #2, March 1947)

[themarvelproject]

Marvel promo poster forThe Last Galactus Story featuring art by Bill Sienkiewicz (1984)

[etakeh]

Inspired by this post of Galaxy Digest Santa-themed covers, I thought Golly, I should go through my collection of random SF&F digests and see what they've done in the past!

I was disappointed. Nothing remotely Christmas on any of the Fantasy & Science Fiction Digest covers. I mean, I could reach a little.

These look somewhat cold?

This one kind of looks like a ghost...of Christmas future? (yeah I know it's more like present at this point)

I was disappointed to say the least. Then I realized that January issues probably came out in December, and went back through.

Look, a grandma-lady with a pie. What could be more "holiday".

I was about to give up, then I found this.

That's it. That's the only one. It doesn't seem to be related to any of the stories on the cover, I checked.

My collection isn't complete, there are missing issues throughout, but it does go back to the 50s. This one is from 1961/62

Bonus though. I thought I'd go through all of my other assorted similar digests - I've got some Analog, Asimov's SF magazine, Science Fiction Adventures, Amazing Stories, Thrilling SF, Worlds of Tomorrow...nothing.

and you know what?

Fantastic Stories was just trolling.

So I guess they're going the whole "Science doesn't believe in Santa" route.

Too bad, it could have been fun.

[oakendesk]

Fantastic Story Magazine Jun 1951

Earle K Bergey