For a short while in 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, Amazing Stories decided to throw caution to the winds and go with what was then ultra-modern typography and highly stylised covers. Here’s the sequence in date order. They’re obviously feeling their way forward with a new cover type with art (and probably typography and layout) by one A. Sigmond, and the idea behind the new covers was probably to emulate the new movie title sequences in cinemas, and perhaps also the new style of book jackets. Gernsback doesn’t really nail it until May and June. But then he backtracks and by the August/September issue is nudging it back toward the conventional pulp-style cover showing humans, having by then picked up a new artist and a snappy new logo.