Ornament girl

Test tube Frankenstein
Tube girl high weirdness
A girl is enclosed in a glass sphere held by a giant grinning glass demon on the November 1950 cove of Thrills Incorporated.

I guess this counts as an example of the tube-girl meme. The cover provenance is a bit hard to track down. Thrills Incorporated was an Australian science fiction magazine published between 1950 and 1952. Aside from a brief ISFDB entry I haven’t been able to find out much about this issue. There appear to be a few issues in the Internet Archive, though not this one. But the trope here is sufficiently classic that I felt I had to include the cover.

The cover price of one Australian shilling equals a little more than 11 U.S. cents, at least if I understand the then-prevailing exchange rate correctly. A bargain!

Hat tip on this one to this @PulpCovers tweet: