Hugo Gernsback – Ghost in the Machine

Tales of Wonder.

By way of io9, an impressive collection of vintage sci-fi pulp art. (You can still make your own here.) Note the editor above — Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi pioneer and the Man in the Mask. (He also appears briefly in Uphill All the Way.)

The Man in the Iron Mask.

As seen in the comments of this strange story, writer, inventor, and science-fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback shows off The Isolator, a Spaceballs-like contraption designed to allow someone to read and write in peace, in the July 1925 issue of Science and Invention. What could possibly go wrong?