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

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always fronted by columns very similar to the Grecian architecture. 
Jan. 42 brings the bee-hive topped giant glass igloo of the Europans with a prism surmounting it all. The dwellings previously depicted on the Sept, 40 back cover are also represented in the background -- this igloo, then, must be a new development.
The back cover returns to Ganymede in the next Amazing, but on p. 212 Fuqua draws a pyramid city of one building on a trunk label, for Eric F. Russell’s MR. WISEL’S SECRET. Said pyramid is over 30 stories tall, with rounded peak and four successive projections surrounding the edifice near the top.
The front cover for March gives us merely a castle, with the exception that the top is domed. It’s a Fuquan illustration for Wilcox’ DISCIPLES OF DESTINY. For the back cover, Paul attempts to imagine what Martians might think a Tellurian city looks like: umbrella covered circular huts down by the water - - no doors or windows at all. 
The April back cover is the final one of the city series and presents Paul’s conception of a future London. Sorry I can’t describe it; it’s missing from my collection.
About the only unusual item in Ned Hadley’s double-spread for McGicern’s THE AVENGERS in the June 42 Amz is the bow-knot top of the small tower on page 9. This also appears later.
Bob Glueckstein has a cartoon on p. 193 of the same issue which presents some unlikely alien architecture with a faint resemblence to bottles - - some round, some thin, plus one cooky tin.
On the back cover of the Oct. 42 Amz, Settles depicts a couple Plutonian mountain-top edifices slightly similar to an observatory tower, but with a three-disked spire atop its dome.
Perhaps worthy of mention also, is the SPHERE OF SLEEP illustrated on p. 179 of the Dec. 42 issue. Chester Geier is the author; Ned Hadley, the artist.
Paul draws a city where each building, whether round, half-moon, or ring-shaped - - even the elevated roadways - - possesses a transparent dome, for E.K. Jarvis’ THE METAL MONSTER (March 43 Amz - - pages 8 and 9 ) . Some are even built over platforms covering more than one structure, and several of the domes are capped.
Further on (pages 98-99, same ish) he depicts numerous cylindrical towers, some tapering, mostly topped with guns on telescope-like mountings for THE LIGHT THAT KILLED, a John Hale episode, by Ed Earl Repp.
Ned Hadley illustrates Geier’s ENIGMA OF THE CITY in the Apr. 43 Amz, pages 136 - 7, with considerable variety - - towers, spires, obelisks, loaf-shaped streamlined buildings, low and high domed edifices, medieval and present day styles, plus a arched elevated highway.
The “hat-topped” upended blue-egg homes of the inhabitants of a Vegan planet are  depicted in Paul’s back cover for the same ish.
The Aug. 43 Amz presents a Rigelian planet’s city camouflaged as artificial mountains. The few visible portions are tops of buried cylinders, some with low one-shaped roofs while the power stations are topped with twin sun-power towers. Transparent causeways are sometimes used between them.
Rather prosaic, and certainly not streamlined are the buildings of Hadden’s double-spread - - pages 10 and 11 - - for Dave Reed’s EMPIRE OF JEGGA - - Nov. 43 Amz. Square cornered and mostly flat topped, not too much imagination seems to have been shown, but it is strangely satisfactory after some of the unlikely types that most ZD artists seem to have revealed in. In the same ish, on pages 168-9 , Fuqua depicts the thick-stemmed, mushroom-like huts of the mousey Talpites of Mercury’s dark side. The city is domed, incidentally; and the story so illustrated is A.R. McKenzie’s JUGGERAUT JONES, PIRATE.
Fuqua does the back cover of the Jan. 44 Amazing which, incidentally, illustrates P.F. Costello’s PHANTOM CITY OF LUNA. Among the buildings can be discerned low triangular and circular ones; the first high at the rim, the second, at the cen

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always fronted by columns very similar to the Grecian architecture. Jan. 42 brings the bee-hive topped giant glass igloo of the Europans with a prism surmounting it all. The dwellings previously depicted on the Sept, 40 back cover are also represented in the background -- this igloo, then, must be a new development. The back cover returns to Ganymede in the next Amazing, but on p. 212 Fuqua draws a pyramid city of one building on a trunk label, for Eric F. Russell’s MR. WISEL’S SECRET. Said pyramid is over 30 stories tall, with rounded peak and four successive projections surrounding the edifice near the top. The front cover for March gives us merely a castle, with the exception that the top is domed. It’s a Fuquan illustration for Wilcox’ DISCIPLES OF DESTINY. For the back cover, Paul attempts to imagine what Martians might think a Tellurian city looks like: umbrella covered circular huts down by the water - - no doors or windows at all. The April back cover is the final one of the city series and presents Paul’s conception of a future London. Sorry I can’t describe it; it’s missing from my collection. About the only unusual item in Ned Hadley’s double-spread for McGicern’s THE AVENGERS in the June 42 Amz is the bow-knot top of the small tower on page 9. This also appears later. Bob Glueckstein has a cartoon on p. 193 of the same issue which presents some unlikely alien architecture with a faint resemblence to bottles - - some round, some thin, plus one cooky tin. On the back cover of the Oct. 42 Amz, Settles depicts a couple Plutonian mountain-top edifices slightly similar to an observatory tower, but with a three-disked spire atop its dome. Perhaps worthy of mention also, is the SPHERE OF SLEEP illustrated on p. 179 of the Dec. 42 issue. Chester Geier is the author; Ned Hadley, the artist. Paul draws a city where each building, whether round, half-moon, or ring-shaped - - even the elevated roadways - - possesses a transparent dome, for E.K. Jarvis’ THE METAL MONSTER (March 43 Amz - - pages 8 and 9 ) . Some are even built over platforms covering more than one structure, and several of the domes are capped. Further on (pages 98-99, same ish) he depicts numerous cylindrical towers, some tapering, mostly topped with guns on telescope-like mountings for THE LIGHT THAT KILLED, a John Hale episode, by Ed Earl Repp. Ned Hadley illustrates Geier’s ENIGMA OF THE CITY in the Apr. 43 Amz, pages 136 - 7, with considerable variety - - towers, spires, obelisks, loaf-shaped streamlined buildings, low and high domed edifices, medieval and present day styles, plus a arched elevated highway. The “hat-topped” upended blue-egg homes of the inhabitants of a Vegan planet are depicted in Paul’s back cover for the same ish. The Aug. 43 Amz presents a Rigelian planet’s city camouflaged as artificial mountains. The few visible portions are tops of buried cylinders, some with low one-shaped roofs while the power stations are topped with twin sun-power towers. Transparent causeways are sometimes used between them. Rather prosaic, and certainly not streamlined are the buildings of Hadden’s double-spread - - pages 10 and 11 - - for Dave Reed’s EMPIRE OF JEGGA - - Nov. 43 Amz. Square cornered and mostly flat topped, not too much imagination seems to have been shown, but it is strangely satisfactory after some of the unlikely types that most ZD artists seem to have revealed in. In the same ish, on pages 168-9 , Fuqua depicts the thick-stemmed, mushroom-like huts of the mousey Talpites of Mercury’s dark side. The city is domed, incidentally; and the story so illustrated is A.R. McKenzie’s JUGGERAUT JONES, PIRATE. Fuqua does the back cover of the Jan. 44 Amazing which, incidentally, illustrates P.F. Costello’s PHANTOM CITY OF LUNA. Among the buildings can be discerned low triangular and circular ones; the first high at the rim, the second, at the cen page 10