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Scientifictionist, v. 1, issue 6, August-October 1946

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Paul continues on the next ish’s back cover, with some Ganymedan huts, similar in ways to tropical huts on earth. Those located on the mountain tops are slightly different.
Nov. 40 brings a Krupa illustration for Ed Hamilton’s REVOLT OF THE TENTH WORLD that was used again in the Dec. 44 ish for C.A. Baldwin’s WAR CRIMINALS OF RENAULT ISLAND. The first time, the pic appears on p. 61; the second, on p. 31. It presents several types (mostly unknown) of architecture dangerously near a space-ramp. Cylinders predominate on the right and facaded types on the left , plus a towering, rather unbalanced “space-filler”.
Almost indescribable is the vivid Martian architecture drawn by Paul on the back of the Dec. 40 Amz. Streamlined, beautiful; what else can I say!
The Jan. 41 back cover brings Paul’s depiction of Venusian buildings — mostly round one-story things, with red shallow-domed roofs.
A Jovian city, still by Paul, occupied the next ish’s cover. The main building is in the form of a giant statue of a Jovian, and smaller buildings scattered around look a lot like streamlined two-story trailers or milk trucks.
March 41 brings the Neptunian city whose houses resemble orange igloos without the entrance tunnel. It’s Paul again on the back cover, of course. 
We come inward to Uranus , for the next ish’s back cover, and since it is viewed from the inside, it is harder than ever to describe. Streamlining and ramps are most evident, with steep inclines from side to side.
We return to the black-and-white with the May 41 ish. On page 70, Krupa (!) presents some tall buildings (and elevated roadways) featuring disc or spiral tops for Binder’s ADAM LINK FACES A REVOLT.
Also in the May 41 ish, page 120, Krupa draws a bunch of almost cardboard-thin buildings surrounding a rocket launching shaft - - oh, call it the city on its side. Returning to Amazing’s back covers, the June 41 issue presents the multi-storied conical bathhouses of Pluto which are topped with glowing energy-globes. July, on the other hand depicts a crystal city on Io, Jovian satellite. Giant columns with triangular dorways, plus built-over platforms about covers the matter. The following number, Aug. , takes us out again, to Saturn this time. It’s solidly built red buildings are closely packed in tiers against a cliff. They somewhat resemble capsules whose entrance is through an igloo-like hemisphere. Their power plant is globe-shaped with a cone chimney - - the globe being well covered with vanes.
Pausing momentarily for a front cover (Sept. 41 - - Bob Fuqua, for the Coblentz yarn, ENCHANTRESS OF LEMURIA ) , we find a city of egg, mushrooms and minaret-topped towers, plus a few puffball buildings. For the same ish’s back cover, we have a quartz city on Mercury, built in angular bee-hive tiers against the cliffs. In the center is a many faceted sphere atop a crystal tower. The entrances are hexagonal openings.
To descend for the moment, from the sublime to the ridiculous, we find on p.140 of the Oct.41 Amz, a Newman cartoon with some Martian architecture. It specializes in triangular pinnacles set perpendicular to a very slanting roof.
Back to the “sublime” again, the same ish’s back cover illustrates a city built deep inside Diana (Luna to you ) . The structures are terrraced back, every few stories and there are connecting bridges at various levels over the chasm.
For the Nov. Ish, Fuqua paints on the front cover, a sunken city for McGivern’s CONVOY TO ATLANTIS. Among the styles visible are accordian pleated towers, one with a ringed sphere atop it; a statue-topped tower flanked by spheres, and ringed cylinders with tapering rectangular summits, not to mention an assortment of elevated roadways.
On the back cover, Paul illustrates the round skyscrapers of Titan, Saturnian moon, with their embellishments of figurines, etc.
The Jovian moon, Callisto, comes in for its Paul-imagined city, with the Dec.41 Amz. No matter how high the buildings climb against the mountains, they are

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Paul continues on the next ish’s back cover, with some Ganymedan huts, similar in ways to tropical huts on earth. Those located on the mountain tops are slightly different. Nov. 40 brings a Krupa illustration for Ed Hamilton’s REVOLT OF THE TENTH WORLD that was used again in the Dec. 44 ish for C.A. Baldwin’s WAR CRIMINALS OF RENAULT ISLAND. The first time, the pic appears on p. 61; the second, on p. 31. It presents several types (mostly unknown) of architecture dangerously near a space-ramp. Cylinders predominate on the right and facaded types on the left , plus a towering, rather unbalanced “space-filler”. Almost indescribable is the vivid Martian architecture drawn by Paul on the back of the Dec. 40 Amz. Streamlined, beautiful; what else can I say! The Jan. 41 back cover brings Paul’s depiction of Venusian buildings — mostly round one-story things, with red shallow-domed roofs. A Jovian city, still by Paul, occupied the next ish’s cover. The main building is in the form of a giant statue of a Jovian, and smaller buildings scattered around look a lot like streamlined two-story trailers or milk trucks. March 41 brings the Neptunian city whose houses resemble orange igloos without the entrance tunnel. It’s Paul again on the back cover, of course. We come inward to Uranus , for the next ish’s back cover, and since it is viewed from the inside, it is harder than ever to describe. Streamlining and ramps are most evident, with steep inclines from side to side. We return to the black-and-white with the May 41 ish. On page 70, Krupa (!) presents some tall buildings (and elevated roadways) featuring disc or spiral tops for Binder’s ADAM LINK FACES A REVOLT. Also in the May 41 ish, page 120, Krupa draws a bunch of almost cardboard-thin buildings surrounding a rocket launching shaft - - oh, call it the city on its side. Returning to Amazing’s back covers, the June 41 issue presents the multi-storied conical bathhouses of Pluto which are topped with glowing energy-globes. July, on the other hand depicts a crystal city on Io, Jovian satellite. Giant columns with triangular dorways, plus built-over platforms about covers the matter. The following number, Aug. , takes us out again, to Saturn this time. It’s solidly built red buildings are closely packed in tiers against a cliff. They somewhat resemble capsules whose entrance is through an igloo-like hemisphere. Their power plant is globe-shaped with a cone chimney - - the globe being well covered with vanes. Pausing momentarily for a front cover (Sept. 41 - - Bob Fuqua, for the Coblentz yarn, ENCHANTRESS OF LEMURIA ) , we find a city of egg, mushrooms and minaret-topped towers, plus a few puffball buildings. For the same ish’s back cover, we have a quartz city on Mercury, built in angular bee-hive tiers against the cliffs. In the center is a many faceted sphere atop a crystal tower. The entrances are hexagonal openings. To descend for the moment, from the sublime to the ridiculous, we find on p.140 of the Oct.41 Amz, a Newman cartoon with some Martian architecture. It specializes in triangular pinnacles set perpendicular to a very slanting roof. Back to the “sublime” again, the same ish’s back cover illustrates a city built deep inside Diana (Luna to you ) . The structures are terrraced back, every few stories and there are connecting bridges at various levels over the chasm. For the Nov. Ish, Fuqua paints on the front cover, a sunken city for McGivern’s CONVOY TO ATLANTIS. Among the styles visible are accordian pleated towers, one with a ringed sphere atop it; a statue-topped tower flanked by spheres, and ringed cylinders with tapering rectangular summits, not to mention an assortment of elevated roadways. On the back cover, Paul illustrates the round skyscrapers of Titan, Saturnian moon, with their embellishments of figurines, etc. The Jovian moon, Callisto, comes in for its Paul-imagined city, with the Dec.41 Amz. No matter how high the buildings climb against the mountains, they are page 9