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Maiden, crone, and fishmen

I’m pretty sure that Margaret Brundage is illustrating Edmond Hamilton’s story here. In interior art Jack Binder definitely is, and boy-howdy does the illustration have a made science feel.

“He transferred the brain into the body of the blind old man.”

Jack Blinder does extra duty on this issue baking some cheescake to illustrate another of C.L. Moore’s Jirel stories.

“She stared with the dazed incredulity of one who knows herself to be in a nightmare.”

This isse of Weird Tales is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.

Is the woman blue because she’s cold?

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.”

This issue of Weird Tales is available to read and download from the Internet Archive.