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SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers

Amazing Stories vol. 2, no. 12 (March 1928)

OK this is wild. Not a horrible depiction of asian people, I guess? But full of clichés anyway. I think the most unusual thing about it is the hooded onlookers, somewhere between Muslims and Ninjas.

Original magazine: archive.org/details/Amazing_St

An asian man is strapped to a chair in a large room with many hooded/masked people watching; another asian man is projecting a beam of light onto his face from a device containing a large green crystal. Amazing Stories magazine cover from 1928.
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This is very much in the tradition of posters for famous "Oriental" magicians around the turn of the 19th century (most, if not all of which, were white people in yellowface ) who may have helped cement popular Asian stereotypes for at least the next century.

A poster for late 19th century magician "Chung Ling Soo," depicting two "Oriental" men in colorful robes and long braids approaching a scantily clad woman reclined on a giant seashell.
A poster for late 19th century magician "Chung Ling Soo," depicting the magician standing before a firing squad in his signature "bullet catch," trick, the failure of which actually killed him.
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