Pulps III - a lot of hot air

https://pulpcovers.com/?s=air+wonder

Hahaha, I love the angry little red bloopy people in the last photo.

Slicing, dicing, and making hundreds of Julienned fries!

And it looks like hotdogs in the second.

I was just coming here to show you options for wearing pulps on your torso:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/AmazingStoriesStore?section_id=50324304

>4 GSSex-noob: Delightful! Not sure I'm daring enough to wear any of those in public. The Jupiter one maybe?

>1 bam2001:
So much going on in the final cover! The red-clad antigravity space orcs ("sporcs") emerge from their hives to repel the invading cat-dish craft, which has designs on the floating golden globes that supply the sporcs with their sustenance.

>4 GSSex-noob: Very cool.

>5 bam2001: There's a reason they're called "Convention Wear".

I saw one or two at the last con. Definitely the "scientifiction" one, and I think Jupiter. On a generic early-middle-aged white guy with brown hair, so no idea who.

Look great in person but are polyester -- the highest grade, though.

>2 MrsLee: I can't look at them without hearing "bloop". Or "blorp". Or similar cartoon noises. You can't tell me the antennae don't make a noise as they move, or that the suit power doesn't buzz.

>9 GSSex-noob:

Yes, the Space Glowstick Antennae make the sound of a spring unwinding as they rotate....

I would enter the "best story" contest for the fourth one except for one thing.
I don't have three names.
It would be called "Attack of the Comedone People: A Raket and Skibbit Adventure."

>11 TorMented:

Yay! "Raket and Skibbit"!

I'm still trying to figure out where you put the key to wind up the space orcs so they can fly up to the two-dish ship.

Before I figured out that the figures were coming from the hives to attack the two-dish, I saw the one suit near the middle - where the ship looks like it has an embouchere - and the line from it to the ship made it look like the ship spat it out like a person spits watermelon seeds.

Um, do watermelons still have seeds, and do people still spit them?

@Hammy: YES! I was hearing the cartoony SPROIIIING noise too. And even seedless watermelons still have the occasional ones, but I don't know if spitting's still done. It was in the 30s, I'm sure.

I too first thought the sporcs were coming from the ship, but then was distracted by their bug-eyed piggy goofiness.

@Tor: GSS! For the title and Raket and Skibet. IIRC, their theme song would go well with this.

Ol' Hugo would have no understanding at all of the works that get his namesake award bestowed on them since the 60s. Speaking of no understanding, what the hell is the title logo outline? A flying squashed hat?

Egads, we've all missed a trick on the last one:

PIIIIIIIIGS IIN SPAAAAAAAAACE!

I just read the 1975 Hugo winner The Dispossessed, and I think it would have made Gernsback positively hurl. Great book!

#3: "Oh, the humanity!"

Oh, and more on #4:

The ship is looking more and more to me like some sort of futuristic musical wind instrument. Just blow in the tube/embouchure, the two discs spin and make a pleasant sound. Too bad the space pork-orcs are too small to make a joyful noise with it. That's probably why they're all upset.

>6 paradoxosalpha: Congrats for sussing this out so perfectly.

>18 GSSex-noob: I initially thought that those two yellow globes were supposed to be suns, but I think paradoxosalpha has it right:suns aren't shiny! (Giant floating jawbreakers? They've come to steal our gum!)

>13 Hammy_JLK: Yes to the seeds, and yes to the spitting them. At least when I'm eating outside and in the right company. So satisfying.

>20 MrsLee: I'm not very good at spitting them (they usually landed on my shirt) so I haven't done it much.

>1 bam2001: I spotted the sporcs and globes over on Internet Archive, but haven't the eyesight to find out when/if the winner was published. That story's gotta be a doozy.

$50 was a lot of money in 1930! sproinggggg.

Okay, I'm still seeing the title outline as being a flying hat.

And the 2nd one has a razor-sharp weapon to cut through things.

Therefore, #2 has finally come together in my brain:

Oddjob's bowler.

>23 GSSex-noob: Now I'm picturing King Kong in a suit and bowler.