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The Black Colossus is looking a bit pale

A Margarget Brundage cover for the June 1933 issue of Weird Tales, visiting some familiar themes. Illustrating an interior story, “Golden Blood” by Jack Williamson, is work by James Allen St. John (1873-1957), famous as an illustrator of the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs and regarded by many as “the Godfather of American Fantasy Art.”

“The woman’s body was yellow as the snake, and had something of the serpent’s sinuous grace.”

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