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Squick or Squee 2014: Tube Girl Mermaid Conversion

Dark Vanessa, long a contributor to Erotic Mad Science, gives her version of a classic pulp cover of a mad scientist turning women into mermaids in tubes.

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You can download a high-resolution version of the image by clicking on it.

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Tube Girl Mermaid Transformation 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.)

Dark Vanessa here takes her inspiration from a cover of Terror Tales, May 1940.

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I’ve only found this in fairly low resolution, sadly.

Update: Foolish me, I did have a higher-resolution version, tucked away in a post over at my dedicated home for squicky imagery. Here it is:

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Tumblr favorite #1038: Take that, spaceman!

Original post here.

Origianl text:

mattfractionblog:

SATELLITE SAM #1 – GEM OF THE MONTH
story MATT FRACTION
art / cover  HOWARD CHAYKIN
JULY 3
32 PAGES / BW / M
$3.50
SEX • DEATH • LIVE TV!
NEW YORK CITY, 1951: The star of beloved daily television serial “Satellite Sam” turns up dead in a flophouse filled with dirty secrets. The police think it was death by natural causes but his son knows there was something more… if only he could sober up long enoguh to do something about it. This noir mystery shot through with sex and violence exposes the seedy underbelly of the golden age of television. 
By MATT FRACTION (CASANOVA, Hawkeye, FF) and HOWARD CHAYKIN (BLACK KISS I & II, AMERICAN FLAGG!).