And metal garments are more conductive than cloth, so that young lady is definitely in an uncomfortable situation in Margaret Brundage’s illustration of the February 1934 cover of Weird Tales. Hugh Rankin makes an appearance in the interior with an almost ethereally-beautiful illustration for E. Hoffman Price’s story “Tarbis of the Lake.”
This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
PAGE 91 (Four panels)
Panel 1: More interview position. Chiba looks a bit more serious.
Unseen interviewer (out-of-panel balloon) (1): あなたがやったこのようなショーは、あなたが唯一担当しているものですか?
Chiba (2): いいえ、他にもあります。
SUBTITLE – INTERVIEWER (3): Are shows like the one you just did the only ones you do?
Translation (3): ¿El espectáculo que acaban de hacer es el único que hacen?
SUBTITLE – CHIBA (4): No, there are others.
Translation (4): No, hay otros.
Panel 2: Chiba in the tank again. Two of the creatures tentacles are pulling down the straps of her one-piece swimsuit. Chiba is not resisting this action.
CAPTION – CHIBA NARRATING (5): 時々、海事センターの一般客向けの公開が終わった後に…
SUBTITLE (6): Sometimes, after the Marine Center closes to the general public…
Translation (6): A veces, después de que el centro cierra al público general…
Panel 3: Chiba now naked in the tank, a sucker tentacle attached to one of her nipples, her arms and legs snaked around with tentacles. Her eyes are open wide and she is looking down as if in wonder at the tentacle on her breast.
CAPTION – CHIBA NARRATING (7): ..裕福な寄付者のために、非常に特別なショーを行うことがあります。
SUBTITLE (8): …we put on some very special shows for wealthy donors.
Translation (8): …Organizamos espectáculos muy especiales para donantes adinerados.
Panel 4: A couple of middle-aged to old rich Texas dudes staring in amazement, their faces illuminated by light from the tank, the background otherwise dark.
CAPTION – CHIBA NARRATING (9): この特別なショーのために、巨額のお金を支払う人もいます。
SUBTITLE (10): Some people pay huge amounts for these special shows.
Translation (10): Algunos pagan grandes sumas por ver estos espectáculos especiales.
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A classic trope well done by Margaret Brundage on the cover of the June 1936 Weird Tales.
In the interior art, Howard S. De Lay (1876-1950) brings the sexy in his illustration of Robert E. Howard’s “Black Canaan,” a story published in the same month as Howard ended his own life.
I don’t think De Lay’s art has been featured here before, but he was a relatively prolific pulp and comics artist. This specialty blog has a short biographical article on him.
This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
PAGE 87 (Four panels)
Panel 1: CHIBA MOE (“Chiba”), a very attractive young Japanese woman wearing a white one-piece swimsuit that has a logo for the Marine Center above the left breast stands on a diving board in position to make a dive. The swimsuit, while a one-piece, seems designed to emphasize some sex appeal, especially cleavage. Around Chiba’s waist there is a belt with a bag of sorts attached. The diving board extends over the tank containing the creature.
CAPTION (1): At Energexecon Center, a few years later.
Translation (1): En el Centro de Estudios Marinos de Energexecon, unos años más tarde.
Panel 2: Chiba going into the water, her legs and lower half still out as she is in mid-dive.
SFX – DIVE (2): Splash!
Translation (2): ¡Plic!
Panel 3: A group of Cub Scouts in uniform, sitting cross-legged on the floor of the Center outside the pool. They are looking up, fascinated.
Panel 4: Chiba descending into the tank on her dive, underwater and surrounded by bubbles.
PAGE 88 (Four panels)
Panel 1: Chiba underwater in the tank. She is swimming upright and has taken a fish out of the bag tied to her belt, which she is holding in her hand. One of the creature’s tentacles is extending toward her.
Panel 2: One of the tentacles is wrapped around the fish. The other has grabbed onto one of the shoulder straps of Chiba’s suit and is pulling it down.
Panel 3: The Cub Scouts again, who are staring at this scene gap-mouthed and obviously very interested in what will happen next.
Panel 4: Chiba using her free hand to swat at the tentacles aiming at molesting her. Her shoulder strep is down around her upper arm.
PAGE 89 (Three panels)
Panel 1: Chiba wagging her finger at the retreating tentacle (indicate both with motion lines).
Panel 2: Chiba taking a “bow” underwater to her audience.
Panel 3: Probably the bottom half of the page – wide view of the Cub Scouts now on their feat and applauding.
SFX – APPLAUSE (1): CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP…
Translation (1): CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP…
PAGE 90 (Four panels)
Panel 1: Chiba, standing at the top of the tank, quite wet still in her one-piece bathing suit, being interviewed.
Chiba (1): 私は海事センターでショーを演じるために、私の県出身の別の若い女性と一緒に雇われました。
SUBTITLE (2): I was hired along with other young women from my prefecture to put on shows at the Maritime Center.
Comment (2): If the target language for translation is Japanese, the translator need not provide translations of Japanese dialog unless he or she wishes to make suggestions for improvement (the existing Japanese dialog is translated from the “subtitles,” which were what was actually written.
Translation (2): Me contrataron junto con otras jóvenes de mi prefectura para hacer espectáculos en el Centro de Estudios Marinos.
CAPTION (3): Chiba Moe, Marine Center show worker.
Translation (3): Chiba Moe, trabajadora de espectáculos del Centro de Estudios Marinos.
Panel 2: Incorporated photograph from http://www.erosblog.com/2008/12/16/nude-pearl-diver/
CAPTION – CHIBA NARRATING (4): 私たちはみな、海女 (真珠貝を採る女性潜水士) の村の出身なので、水中で働く素晴らしい伝統があります。
SUBTITLE (5): We are all from villages of ama (women pearl divers), so we have a great tradition of working underwater.
Translation (5): Todas venimos de las aldeas de ama (buceadoras que recolectan perlas), así que tenemos una gran tradición de trabajar bajo el agua.
Panel 3: “Still photograph” of a group of other divers, also attractive young Japanese women in swimsuits just like Chiba’s, standing at the base of the tank and posed in a group. All are smiling, and one has raised her hand in a “V” sign.
CAPTION – CHIBA NARRATING (6): 私たちのグループがあり、餌やりショーを行うために、一緒に働いています。とても人気です。
SUBTITLE (7): There is a group of us. We work together to put on feeding shows. They’re very popular.
Translation (7): Somos un grupo. Trabajamos juntas para organizar espectáculos donde se alimenta a la criatura. Son muy populares.
Panel 4: Back to the interview. Chiba is grinning.
Chiba (8): 私は本当に自分の仕事が好きです。
SUBTITLE (9): I really like my job.
Translation (9): Me gusta mucho mi trabajo.
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Never one to be outdone in the tying-up-pretty-girls department, Margaret Brundage ties one to wheel on the June 1938 cover of Weird Tales to illustrate Seabury Quinn’s “Suicide Chapel.” Virgil Finlay has an interior illustration to the same story which shows off greater emotional intensity.
Our heroine’s antagonist is meant to be a giant ape. by the way.
This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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PAGE 86 (Four panels)
Panel 1: Turpentine, in a white labcoat, standing next to the side of the tank. He is being interviewed. In the part of the tank that is visible behind him, there’s nothing but water.
Turpentine (1): Well, we had some difficult times there, but it is remarkable how we succeeded in the end.
Translation (1): Bueno, tuvimos algunos momentos difíciles allí, pero es notable cómo lo logramos finalmente.
Panel 2: Turpentine facing the tank and placing one hand on the glass.
Turpentine (2): We’ll study the Creature and find out what makes it tick. I’d say that its woman-eating days are over.
Translation (2): Estudiaremos la criatura y descubriremos cómo funciona. Yo diría que se acabaron sus días de comer mujeres.
Panel 3: Turpentine facing outward from the glass again. In the background, un-noted by him, a tentacle has snaked into the shot. This tentacle has an eye at its end, wide open in this panel.
Turpentine (3): I believe humanity will benefit a great deal from the study of Gynophagos turpentinii.
Comment (3): Same conventions on Linnean species names apply as above.
Translation (3): Creo que la humanidad se beneficiará mucho con el estudio de Gynophagos turpentinii.
Unseen interviewer (out-of-panel balloon) (4): Wasn’t it supposed to be named Gynophagos honeywoodiae?
Translation (4): ¿No se suponía que se llamaría Gynophagos honeywoodiae?
Panel 4: Turpentine looking a bit perplexed and annoyed. Behind him, the eye-tentacle has contorted into an Angry Squint, as similar as possible to the same Angry Squint made by Claudia Honeywood.
Turpentine (5): I’m sorry, but I have no recollection of that.
Translation (5): No que yo recuerde, lo siento.
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Here we have a rare pre-Brundage Weird Tales cover, this one done by Hugh Rankin, a pulp artist we’ve discussed here recently. Our discussion got picked up in a post at BondageBlog, who liked the languid girl chained up in a cave Rankin drew before. Thanks for taking note, Rope Guy!
The interior illustration, also done by Rankin for Seabury Quinn’s story “The House of the Golden Masks,” suggests that perhaps Hugh Rankin liked ’em tied up. (This image is a cross-page composite I put together to try to show the whole thing. I admit it’s not perfect.)
The original, which you can click through to see, shows more detail that can be included in the space available to this blog.
