This is the June 1936 cover of Saucy Movie Tales, cover by Norman Saunders. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers.

This is Saucy Movie Tales for May 1936, cover by Norman Saunders. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers.

This is Saucy Movie Tales from April 1936, cover by Norman Saunders. This image was the subject of its own hot pulp re-creation by Frans Mensink. I found this version of the cover at Pulp Covers.

This is Saucy Movie Tales for March 1936, cover by Norman Saunders. Back in 2015, this cover was the subject of a hot recreation by Lucy Fidelis here at Erotic Mad Science. I found this version of the cover at the Spanish-language site Moon Magazine.

This is Saucy Movie Tales for January 1936, cover by Norman Saunders.

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While there were issues of Spicy Mystery Stories after 1942 (the last appears to have been in 1946), they became less risqué and therefore to my dirty mind less interesting. So with #186 we’ll switch to another magazine, Saucy Movie Tales. While there wasn’t necessarily much in the way of mad science on its covers, it appears to have been one of the most consistently racy of the pulps, at least in terms of the material on its cover. (Unfortuantely the ISFDB does not index it.) This cover is perhaps the earliest available, from December 1935. I found it at Pulp Covers where it is attributed to the great Norman Saunders, although the internal signature “Blaine” puts this in some doubt as apparently Norman Saunders sometimes signed his work.