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Aprenda português XXII: A Isca 023
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PAGE 23 (Four panels)
Panel 1: Barron Sr. putting his hand on the barrel of an assault rifle that Wealth Friend is pointing at the sea, a gesture meant to stop him from shooting into the water.
Barron Sr. (1): No, you idiot.
Translation (1): Não, seu idiota.
Panel 2: A view into the boat, showing the now-charred corpses of Yacht Crewman #1 and Yacht Crewman #2.
Panel 3: A view of Peony, now standing some distance away on deck, her head buried in her hands in shock and grief.
Peony (2): No…
Translation (2): Peony (2): Não…
Panel 4: A view downward, indicating that Barron Jr. is pointing his camera down but is still filming. (Note that he is about 11 years old at this time.) We see the swimming trunks he’s wearing, his legs and feet and beneath them the planking of the deck. We can also see through the fabric of his swimming trunks that he is having a marked erection.
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Red menace
Another early (July 1928) Weird Tales cover, this one by C.C. Senf. The issue is a good one for fans of the H.P. Lovecraft circle, as it contains stories by August Derleth and Frank Belknap Long, Jr. as well as a poem (!) by Robert E. Howard. It also contains a reprint of a famous story by Arthur Machen, “The Bowmen.” And of course, it has interesting interior art, of which the most memorably weird is this head-of-story piece by sometime Weird Tales cover artist Hugh Rankin.
I confess I am at a bit of a loss to understand what is going on here. Doesn’t this dude understand that kissing is more fun if you take your diving helmet off first? Perhaps all that Thorium has corroded his bat-intellect.
This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.
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PAGE 22 (Four panels)
Panel 1: Yacht Crewman #1 and Yacht Crewman #2 in the boat by the side of the Yellow Rose, as if viewed through Barron Jr.’s camera. Yacht Crewman #1 has a harpoon raised and aimed, presumably at the tentacle beast. One small tentacle is reaching over the side of the boat. Yacht Crewman #2 is sitting in the back of the boat steering an outboard motor.
Yacht Crewman #1 (1): I’ll get you, you motherfucker!
Translation (1): Vou te pegar, seu filho da puta!
Panel 2: Yacht Crewman #1 and Yacht Crewman #2 appear as blackened silhouettes as some sort of massive electrical discharge hits their boat. The whole craft is surrounded by a flash as if of lightning.
SFX – BOAT AND CREW BEING ELECTRO-FRIED (2): KZZZ-ZOT!
Translation (2): ZZ-ZAP!
Panel 3: Phoebe’s head resurfaces just a bit. A tentacle covers a triangular region around her mother and nose, rather like a medical breathing mask. Her eyes are closed, and her expression looks almost blissful.
Panel 4: Ripples in the region of water where Phoebe’s head has been pulled underneath for one last time.
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The Woman of the Wood would appear to be in trouble
This is a very early cover of Weird Tales, dating from August 1926. This early experiment in getting away with as scantily-clad a woman on the cover as the postal inspectors might tolerate is the work of one C. Barker Petrie, Jr., an artist about whom I have been able to find out very little, save that he was active as a pulp illustrator between the years of 1926 and 1931.
Petrie may have been obscure, but he didn’t lack for work on these illustrations of A. Merritt’ story “The Woman of the Wood.” The interior illustrations to the story are also by Petrie, including the header illustration, whose costumed female figure seems to be wearing barely anything concealing at all.
There is also what would seem to be an obligatory forest orgy scene.
This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.
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PAGE 21 (Single panel page)
(Note: footage)
Single panel: View into the water. We see Phoebe underwater, naked and surrounded by a roiling mass of tentacles, some of which appear to be penetrating all of her primary orifices. “Voices” can be heard suggesting the chaos on the Yellow Rose.
CAPTIONS AT VARIOUS POINTS AROUND THE PANEL (1): “Oh God, oh God!” “Kill that thing!” “Get it!” “Yes, Mr. Petrobux!” “I’m getting my gun!”
Translation (1): “Meu Deus! Ai meu Deus!” “Matem essa coisa!” “Peguem ele!” CAPTIONS AT VARIOUS POINTS AROUND THE PANEL (1): “Sim, Sr. Petrobux!” “Estou pegando a arma!”
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Beyond the Phoenix
Another Margaret Brundage cover for Weird Tales, this one all light and air for Henry Kuttner’s story “Beyond the Phoneix.” It appeared in October 1938. Kuttner’s story itself had some unusual art by Jim Mooney (1919-2018), who would later make it big in comics, being one of the principal artists behind Supergirl and also working as an inker on Spiderman.
Perhaps there was an unusual tang in the air that autumn, because the Weird Tales editors seem to have been willing to go a touch more erotic than usual in their choice of illustrations. Right inside the front cover we find this somewhat atypical creation by Virgil Finlay:
This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download from the Internet Archive.
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