Here’s the cover of the first issue of The Magazine of Fantasy, prior to its change of title to the far familiarly known The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Notice that the cover is actually a photographic print from Kodachrome film, rather than the reproduction of a painting. The image of the long-tailed, smiling, nebulous whatever-it-is has been retouched upon the original image, while the model upon which he (it’s?) superimposed looks more inconvenienced than she does frightened.
Notice that the cover presents a nearly full list of the magazine’s table of contents, rather than – unlike most pulp magazines – the title and author of a select story. (“Private – Keep Out!”, by Philip MacDonald is superb…)
