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While there were issues of Spicy Mystery Stories after 1942 (the last appears to have been in 1946), they became less risqué and therefore to my dirty mind less interesting. So with #186 we’ll switch to another magazine, Saucy Movie Tales. While there wasn’t necessarily much in the way of mad science on its covers, it appears to have been one of the most consistently racy of the pulps, at least in terms of the material on its cover. (Unfortuantely the ISFDB does not index it.) This cover is perhaps the earliest available, from December 1935. I found it at Pulp Covers where it is attributed to the great Norman Saunders, although the internal signature “Blaine” puts this in some doubt as apparently Norman Saunders sometimes signed his work.