It has been a while since I’ve run any classic pulp on this site, and as we’re on a brief break between two comics features now might be a good time for some. Over to Imagination for July 1954.
That’s pretty fantastic cover art by Harold McCauley (1913-1977), complete with rocket and ray-gun tropes. Why the red-headed woman is exploring an alien planet in a bathing suit is perhaps best explained only by Faustus’s Law: If you’re pretty enough it doesn’t matter if your space costume makes any sense. Running the hell away from the giant hand at least seems like a sensible course of action.
But perhaps more intriguing is the interior art for the first story, done by W.E. Terry (1921-1992).
A giant topless space space octopus-woman, tentacles and all. Fuck yeah! I bet your puny ray-gun will be no match for her, capitalist space-tool!
And again with the spacewoman in a bathing suit. Maybe it’s some kind of union rule.
This issue of Imagination is available to be read and downloaded at the Internet Archive.
Cthulhu ‘s girlfriend?
Lives in Canada. This looks like outer space.
A prediction of global climate change. Women in the future wear as little as possible because it is so darn hot.
An intriguing observation, but it opens the question…is this scene taking place on Earth?