Charles Schneeman - "Gray Lensman" Astounding Science Fiction 1/40 pulp illo

This one just arrived today, courtesy of the friendly neighborhood postal service. It's an interior illo by Charles Schneeman for one of my favorite stories, "Gray Lensman," by E.E. "Doc" Smith. This particular illo appeared in part four of the serial, in the January 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

The caption in the pulp reads: "Some ships, attacked on every hand, watched meters climb, strain against stopping -- and saw huge converters, hopelessly overloaded, vanish in gouts of atomic flame."

For my own part, I try to make myself scarce when things are vanishing in gouts of atomic flame!