Rarely would Margaret Brundage hesitate to get as much female nudity as she could onto the covers of Weird Tales, which was no doubt good for Depression-era sales. This issue also contains a piece of interior art by Jack Binder (1902-1986) would would go on to greater fame as a Golden Age comics artist. The picture illustrates Arlton Eadle’s story “The Carnival of Death.”
“She felt an icy hand on her shoulder.”
Also in this issue, a very early story by Robert Bloch (he would have been at most eighteen when he wrote it), “The Shambler from the Stars.”
Margaret Brundage By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29768229
Here we present the first of a what is likely a series of covers for Weird Tales. This little magazine, the October 1937 cover of which we reproduce above, was where many of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft first saw the light of publication, and in those days its principal cover artist was Margaret Brundage (1900-1976), she of the ballooning breasts and, incidentally, an art-school classmate of Walt Disney.
The scan quality on most old issues of Weird Tales is unfortunately pretty low, but we shouldn’t keep that from appreciating an interior artwork contribution by the ubiquitous Virgil Finlay.
“She whirled and undulated to the barbaric rush of the music.”
PAGE 62 (Three panels. The first two should appear across the top of the page, the third a long panel across the bottom)
Panel 1: View of Daphne in the water, her midsection dominated by an explosive effect – BOOM! – as her capsule explodes.
SUBTITLE (1): Recovered drone footage.
Translation (1): Imágenes recuperadas del dron.
Panel 2: A large white sphere pops up on the surface of the ocean.
SFX – SPHERE SURFACING (2): Bloop!
Translation (2): ¡Plic!
SUBTITLE (3): Aerial drone surveillance footage.
Translation (3): Imágenes aéreas de drones de vigilancia.
Panel 3: A line of spectators along the rail of the RV Seagoon: Hiram, Turpentine, Claudia, and Captain Drummingdale. Hiram is stroking his chin with a “well, that’s interesting” look. Turpentine is facepalming. Claudia is registering shock. Drummingdale is leaning over the rail and retching.
SUBTITLE (4): Aerial drone surveillance footage.
Translation (4): Imágenes aéreas de drones de vigilancia.
However many of them I discover in my tours of the Internet’s artists’ quarters, it’s always a profound pleasure to discover yet another creator who shares in my curious obsessions.
That’s Melted Into a Soda. Our heroine doesn’t look all that happy about her transition. We can hope, perhaps, that she will learn to enjoy her new state of being.
ICUdhara has a site on DeviantArt with a lot of art. You can get extra goodies if you support him on Patreon, as I do. If all goes well, you’ll be seeing more of his work here.
Tentacle Realm by Dark Vanessa. This image was commissioned by Iago Faustus and is presented here by agreement between Faustus and the artist.
This work is from Dark Vanessa’s imagination, engendered by her work on supplementary illustrations to my graphic novella Bait. Captured maidens dwell together in a great erotic and reproductive communion with the tentacle beasts.
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