Between approaching Mr. Creepy behind and the Flames of the Pit below, our scantily-clad heroine’s future isn’t looking all that bright. Advice to pretty women: do not inhabit a Margaret Brundage Weird Tales cover painting like this one from May 1937.
This issue gives us another more-explicit-than-expected Virgil Finlay illustration, this one for Clifford Ball’s novelette Duar the Accursed.
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PAGE 75 (Single panel page, in color)
Single panel: Claudia has been turned around, held in a few of the creature’s tentacles, facing headfirst into the opening of the creature’s feeding siphon. Claudia looks into it with her eyes open wide.
SUBTITLE (1): Magnified and enhanced drone footage.
Translation (1): Imágenes ampliadas y mejoradas del dron.
PAGE 76 (Four panels)
Panel 1: Claudia’s head disappearing into the creature’s feeding siphon.
SUBTITLE (1): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (1): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 2: Claudia disappeared into the feeding siphon up to her waist.
SUBTITLE (2): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (2): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 3: Just Claudia’s lower legs sticking out of the feeding siphon.
SUBTITLE (3): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (3): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 4: Claudia present only as a swelling in the siphon.
SUBTITLE (4): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (4): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
PAGE 77 (Four panels)
Panel 1: A SAILOR, looking excited, standing on the deck of the RV Seagoon, holding binoculars in one hand and pointing out to sea at something.
Panel 2: A view out to see. In the distance, the Creature, or part of it, appears to be bloated, and floating on the surface.
Panel 3: Another group of SAILORS, on the deck, firing what looks a bit like a cannon off the deck.
SFX – NET CANNON BEING FIRED (1): FOOM!
Translation (1): ¡BOOM!
Panel 4: A view of the creature, just off the side of the RV Seagoon, tangled in a net.
PAGE 78 (Single panel page)
Single panel: A view from the deck showing the Creature, still stuck in the net, being lifted above the midsection of the ship by the ship’s crane. The Creature is in position to be lowered into the large tank in the middle of the ship. Around the deck, there are crewmen gesturing, presumably helping the crane operator lower the Creature into the tank.
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C.L. Moore drew the long straw and got her story “The Black God’s Kiss” illustrated by Margaret Brundage on the October 1934 cover of Weird Tales. The site Galactic Central has a version of the cover in an alternate and brighter color scheme.
This issue also has one of Robert E. Howard’s early Conan stories, “The People of the Black Circle,” complete with an interior illustration by our friend Hugh Rankin.
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PAGE 74 (Four panels)
Panel 1: Same view as previous page. A tentacle is wrapped around Claudia’s foot.
CAPTION – FUZZY BALLOON INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (1): oh!..zats…pop!
Translation (1): ¡Oh! ¡Zats… pop!
SUBTITLE (2): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (2): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 2: Claudia with her legs wrapped in tentacles up to her waist.
CAPTION – FUZZY BALLOON INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (3): fwweeezz…oh…oh…oh…
Translation (3): Fuuiiizz… oh… oh… oh…
SUBTITLE (4): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (4): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 3: Claudia enmeshed in tentacles up to her shoulders.
CAPTION – FUZZY BALLOON INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (5): zzzzzz….ooohhhh…
Translation (5): Zzzzzzz… oooohhhh…
SUBTITLE (6): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (6): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 4: Claudia completely enmeshed in tentacles. Some clearly appear to be penetrating her, and a fat tentacle is in her mouth.
CAPTION – FUZZY BALLOON INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (7): …sshsht…is best sex…pop!…ever had…
Translation (7): …Sshsht… es el mejor sexo… pop… que he tenido en mi vida…
SUBTITLE (8): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (8): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
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A dramatic cover of a girl in peril by Margaret Brundage for the February 1936 Weird Tales. Vampirism or mad science or both? I can’t account for the curious spelling “eery” on this cover, but I do suspect that Brundage’s illustration is an ancestor of a whole trove of interesting fetish art.
As she so often did, C.L. Moore has a story in this issue, “Yvala.” “Yvala was a gloriously beautiful woman — Lilith, Circe, and Helen combined into one — yet she was cruel and dangerous as a flame from hell.” (There’s always a catch…) Vincent Napoli did his best within the limits of his medium to bring her to life.
Atoms of the soul are an interesting concept.
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PAGE 73 (Four panels)
Panel 1: Claudia now taking off her skirt. Her shirt floats somewhere in the water near her.
SUBTITLE (1): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (1): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 2: Claudia removing her bra.
SUBTITLE (2): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (2): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 3: Claudia removing her panties, her legs bent in the act.
SUBTITLE (3): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (3): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 4: Claudia now hovering naked in the water.
CAPTION – FUZZY BOX INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (4): zzltaxy…okay come an’ get me…kak!
Translation (4): Zzltaxy… de acuerdo, ¡ven por mí… kak!
SUBTITLE (5): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (5): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
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Okay, so the racial not-so-subtext isn’t great, but at least we get to see Margaret Brundage at work on more kinky whipping, a subject for which it seems she has something of a feel. This April 1934 issue of Weird Tales has an early story by C.L. Moore among other pulp fiction luminaries.
The E. Hoffman Price story, “Satan’s Garden,” which I believe the Brundage cover also illustrates, has some tasty interior art by someone named H.R. Hammond, about whom I’m afraid I haven’t been able to find out very much at all.
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