Tumblr favorite #1875: Farewell to Daleks

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as Δ 044 – Fond Farewell To Daleks.” Here is what Bacchus found.

The Tardis Data Core wiki about the long-running TV show Dr. Who informs us that actress Katy Manning (who played the Doctor’s companion Jo Grant in the early 1970s) later posed nude with a Dalek for a magazine:

In 1977, she posed naked with an original Dalek prop for the glamour magazine Girl Illustrated (Vol. 8, #10). She laughed the furor off, stating, “You’d have to pretty well put me under a microscope to see anything!” Upon being informed of the photos, Jon Pertwee was quoted as saying, “Typical Katy!” In a later interview, she stated that the nude pictorial “went over like a cup of cold sick.”

The Wiki article where this information appears contains a color photograph (evidently the first page of the magazine shoot) showing Ms. Manning in a different pose but wearing the same fancy boots:

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The visible text reads: “Kissing The Daleks Goodbye: Katy Manning talks to Tym Manley.”

A fortuitous eBay auction gives us a higher-resolution image of a similar pose from the cover of Girl Illustrated, along with the first few paragraphs of text from the magazine spread: 03-girl-illustrated-cover 04-kissing-daleks-intro

A different eBay seller’s auction text, preserved on a magazine collector’s blog, gives us a verbal description of the rest of the magazine spread:

The pictures of Katy include 6 poses, including a centrefold. Katy Manning was pursuaded by the Australian men’s magazine to do the feature, much to the shock and anger of BBC management at the time. They had managed to get hold of a Dalek and the darling young Katy in the buff (and in one shot with only a pair of knee length boots) made a perfect match for the most dangerous machine/creature in the universe. She commented that news of her photo shoot went down ‘like a cup of cold sick’ with the BBC Managers.

Although no complete scans of the magazine or the Katy Manning spread from it appear to exist on the web, a couple of forum posts here and here (both are incomplete, with missing images due to lost image hosting) combine to give us some idea of rest of the contents, possibly including these two additional nude-with-dalek images:

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A blog post here offers another pose where Ms. Manning is actually straddling the Dalek’s appendage:

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And finally, at Слава роботам! we find one last related image:

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To sum up, the best available description suggests that the Girls Illustrated photo spread included only “six poses”, of which at least some were centerfold-type pictures not including the Dalek. Yet here are compiled a total of seven different photographs of the same actress in the same boots posing with the Dalek prop. The only supportable conclusion is that at least some of the additional photos taken when the Girls Illustrated spread was prepared were published later and elsewhere. It has been impossible to determine whether the subject photograph was one of these or was originally seen in Girls Illustrated. But since every indication is that Girls Illustrated was a full-color magazine, most likely the subject photograph originally appeared elsewhere.

In the course of this provenance research, an older-looking, unrelated, and utterly unattributed photograph of a topless woman posing with a Dalek turned up in a tribute to the designer of the Daleks:

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Tumblr favorite #1869: Brinke Stevens, robot captive

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 038 – Chained And Stripped By Robots.” Here is what Bacchus found.

The identification of this animation was made enormously easier by someone who reblogged it after its appearance at the Erotic Mad Science tumblr and appended this attribution when they did so: “Brinke Stevens – SLAVE GIRLS FROM BEYOND INFINITY.” The reference is to 1987’s Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity movie, which did indeed feature Brinke Stevens as a character named Shayla. The inevitably-too-detailed plot summary of the movie at Wikipedia describes a scene in which “Shala is seized and stripped by Zed and the robots”, which would seem to fit the action visible in the animation. A higher-resolution screenshot matching one of the animation frames, found at this Russian torrent site, confirms the attribution:

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Tumblr favorite #1859: Fully functional

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My original tumblr post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 027 – Robot Of Many Positions.” Here is what Bacchus found.

Because of a post at ErosBlog I recognized this image as a page (page 34 as can seen in the scan lower right) from the English-language version of The Survivor by French comic artist Paul Gillon. There were at least three more books of The Survivor after this first one. (#2 #3 #4)

There is a somewhat detailed English-language profile of Paul Gillon here.

Tumblr favorite #1845: Ideal relationship

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Original post here. These images were researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 013 No Robots, No Deal. Here is what Bacchus found.

This comic strip originates in the Tumblr chain of attribution at the “Around Since 1991” tumblr, where it is tagged “MyArt”. That Tumblr belongs to Jessi, aka CrystallizedTwilight on DeviantArt. Although the comic strip itself is not visible in the DeviantArt gallery for CrystallizedTwilight, the face appearing in the comic strip also appears as a self-portrait of sorts in the “DeviantID” artist profile section for CrystallizedTwilight.

Tumblr favorite #1769: Nude and technology II

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Original post here. Sourced to retrodoll via erotiterrorist.

This illustration was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the Γ research commission. The original results were published at Hedonix as Γ 002 – Robotic Tan Lines Inspector. Here is what Bacchus found:

This image is one of those widespread internet images that is extremely difficult to source. The oldest web pages currently displaying the image are dated (like this one) to 2009, but the sourcing there indicates it was on at least one no-longer-extant Tumblr blog earlier than that. Subsequently it has been all over, from French biker forums to LiveJournal. All copies on the internet appear to be versions or crops from the same 324×551 pixel image. About the only hint at provenance I can determine comes from the image itself, which on close inspection reveals that the robot has non-Roman lettering on its chest:

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At least one cameraman can be seen in the background, suggesting that this may be an image from an arranged publicity event.

A commenter at Hedonix had something interesting to add:

Your mistake was thinking that was non-Euro script. In fact, the image is flipped. I unflipped it and found it said “AROK”, then I searched Google Images for it. I found it here: http://cyberneticzoo.com/robots/1975-arok-ben-skora-american/ The link says that it is Miss Nude World 1975, which a Google search said was Stormy Shea (Cynthia Johns)…but a confirmed image was not to be found under either name.

Quite a lot of information on one small image!

Download by Dark Vanessa

Longtime artist-contributor Dark Vanessa has provided a bit of pendant art for this month’s Tales of Gnosis College chapter, putting together Xenobia’s download scene into a slightly more modern setting. Too late gentlemen — by the time you’re through that door there’s only 2% of Antoinette left!

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Download written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Dark Vanessa is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)