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AMAZING, the first all-sf magazine: some of the best covers, for each editor:

Most images courtesy of Galactic Central and ISFDb.

1928: Editor: Hugo Gernsback; cover artist: Frank R. Paul:

 

1933: Editor: T. O'Conor Sloane; cover artist: A. Sigmond:

1942: Editor: Raymond A. Palmer; cover artist: Malcolm Smith:

 



1942: cover artist: H. W. McCauley (the male figure is Ray Palmer):

 
1947: cover artist: Arnold Kohn:

 

1952: Editor: Howard Browne; cover artist: Walter Popp:

 




1953: cover artist: Mel Hunter:

 



1958: Editor: Paul W. Fairman; cover artist: Edward Valigursky:

 




1959: Editor: Cele Goldsmith (later, Cele Lalli); cover artist: Albert Neutzell:

For more on Cele Goldsmith/Lalli, please see here.

 




1960: cover artist: Leo Summers:

 




1963: cover artist: Lloyd Birmingham:

1964: cover artist: Ed Emshwiller: 

For more on the Emshwillers, please see here.

1965: cover artist: Gray Morrow:

 




1966: Editor: Joseph Wrzos aka Joseph Ross; cover artist: uncredited:

(Publisher Sol Cohen had purchased inexpensively a number of uncredited paintings from
European publishers, along with reprinting art [as well as fiction] for which Ziff-Davis had 
purchased all rights over the decades, and sold to Cohen and his Ultimate Publications in 1965.)

1967: Editor: Harry Harrison; cover artist: uncredited:

 




1968: Editor: Barry Malzberg: cover artist uncredited: 

For more posts about and by Barry Malzberg and his work, please see here.

 


1971: Editor: Ted White; cover artist: Jeff Jones:

for more Jeff Jones, please see here.

1974: cover artist: Mike Hinge:

for more Mike Hinge, please see here.
Another good Hinge display.

 





1976: cover artist: Ron Barber:

 


1981: Editor: Elinor Mavor (briefly aka Omar Gohagan); cover artist: Vincent di Fate:

 



1983: Editor: George Scithers; cover artist: George Barr:

 



1987: Editor: Patrick Price; cover artist: Stephen Fabian:

 

1992: Editor: Kim Mohan; cover artist: Jon Weiman:

 


2004: Editor: Dave Gross; cover photo: uncredited:

 
2005: Editor: Jeff Berkwits; cover photo: uncredited:

As I finished this, Rob Latham drew the attention of fellow IAFA list members to two review essays he'd just put forth in the Los Angeles Review of Books:

Check out the pair of review-essays covering the recent biographies of Raymond Palmer and Richard Shaver that were just posted to the LA Review of Books's SF page:
http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/the-uses-and-abuses-of-illusion 
http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/the-shaver-mystery-the-most-sensational-true-story-ever-told 

To which I replied on list (and in comments to the essays):

 --Thanks, Rob.

 I’ve left a pair of comments, with the heavier one thus: The comparisons between Palmer and Campbell don't end with the cheerful little hoax issue of Astounding, sadly...Campbell would go on to support at least as much fringy nonsense, including some at least as pernicious as anything in Palmer's armory (until the late anti-Jewish lunacy you cite--though Campbell had discouraged use of Jewish bylines in Astounding in his early years as editor), including supporting George Wallace's American Independent Party run in 1968.