It’s unfortunate racial tropes ahoy in this interior illustration taken from the February 1937 edition of Dime Mystery Magazine (honestly, I just don’t think we’re any poorer for not having the word “Negress” in common use). A beautiful and helpless woman is up for some procedure. The illustration is (I think) by Monroe Eisenberg (1914-1999). It’s his style, although Amos Sewell also contributed interior art to this issue and his style can be close.

What with all the material in the comics about women becoming (or un-becoming) art it seemed worthwhile to throw in another illustration from that theme:

That’s a nice use of implied nudity, among other things.

The cover was another painting by Tom Lovell, and it certainly suggests dirty work afoot.

This issue of Dime Mystery Magazine is available to be read at or downloaded from the Internet Archive.