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I’m guessing she’s the loot

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.

“And that cursed skull danced with her, rattling and clashing on the sand.”

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.