Bad robot!

This metal-man has a ray gun, shoots lasers out of his eyes, and is strong enough to abduct a scantily-clad human female with only his left arm. Pretty dangerous! He’s the creation of Earle Bergey for the cover of the January 1950 issue of Startling Stories. Meanwhile the interior has an illustration that is uncredited as far as I can tell, and is quite voeyeristic (who’s looking through what?). It’s proportions are such that, properly reduced, it too might make a nifty bookmakr.

This issue of Startling Stories is available to be read and downloaded from the Intenet Archive.

Someone has bungled, cosmically

Just a bit more Harold McCauley pulp illustration. Boy are we going to be sorry when oxygen tanks gain sentience.

A robot blows up a city while enmeshing a dishy blond in its mecho-tentacles.

This painting graced the cover of the January 1956 issue of Imaginative Tales.

We are going to be sorry when oxygen tanks become sentient.

Both versions of the illustration are courtesy of this post at Pulp Covers. The entire issue can be downloaded from or read at the Internet Archive. It’s pretty pulpy: I counted I think four interior illustrations of helpless dames needing rescue from manly sci-fi heroes. But at least one illustration, sadly uncredited, does seem very Erotic Mad Science:

Interior illustration in Imaginative Tales, January 1956

It illustrates a story by Richard O. Lewis, “Practical Joke.” The promo copy:

Hypnotapes were a proven boon to industry, where difficult problems could be experienced and solved vicariously. But to marriage — sheer chaos!

Well all righty then!

Unsafe robot sex

These animations have been reblogged from this 12 July 2015 post at Infernal Wonders. Although I am not entirely certain, I think they probably represent an animated sequence from a game called Viper RSR, made by the now-defunct Japanese erotic games company Sogna. There’s an image gallery (possibly not from the same game) here.

Tube robot

This image is reblogged from this 5 July 2015 post at Infernal Wonders. I’m not sure what’s supposed to be going on here, but it seems to involve a lot of distress. The original provenance of the illustration is unknown to me, unfortunately.

Unauthorized robot surgery

This image is reblogged from this 25 November 2014 post at Infernal Wonders. The art is self-attributed to someone who calls himself “peterpulp”, but a more genuine source would be found in my source post:

This appears to be a magazine cover by fantasy illustrator Dave Dorman (b. 1958), who has a website here. The original context for the illustration appears to have been this magazine cover:

And you thought self-driving cars were a problem…

Reblogged from this 6 July 2014 post at Infernal Wonders. This naughty vacuum cleaner appears to come forth from the imagination of the American artist “Sodano,” who has a DeviantArt site here.

The mechanics of tentacles

This image would be pretty obviously the work of Shirow Masamune (b. 1961) by style even if there weren’t attribution within the image itself. It is reblogged from a 16 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders, and its origins on the Internet appear to go back to the now-defunct tumblr Random Forever Random, some of which is preserved in the Internet Archive.

Masamune has an official website here.

The mechanics of sex

I’ve been unable to establish the provenance behind this intriguing image. It is reblogged from this 14 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders. My original source for it was the tumblr Northern Man, which is still extant.

BDA #132: Radioactive innocence

Whatever that is supposed to mean.

BDA #123: Robot of all work

I’ve long been a fan of all sorts of vintage audio technology, especially radios and record players, but this new development frankly has me concerned.

Erotic Mad Science

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