Pulp Parade #205: In the coils Pulp Parade #204: Wheel of Death! Pulp Parade #206: The mad horde This is The Spider for April 1934. I found it at Wikimedia Commons but don’t know who did the cover.
Usually a snake bites the prey before coiling around it. The better to hang on.
This snake, to a greater extent than most of its ophidian cousins, has a fine sense of theater.