Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Twenty-Three

Fortunately the kindly Dr. Strangeways is here to “help.”

Strangeways offers to "help" Colleen with her problem.

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Strangeways is acting out his own pulpy trope here, naturally.

Mad Dr. Stein’s image found at Silverghost Pulp Gallery.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Twenty-Two

Trouble for Colleen.

Colleen gets sick, in theory from opiate withdrawal.

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And obviously everyone is now thinking along closely-related exploitation lines.

How thoughtful of the jacket copy writer to give the drug both an age and a gender! Image found in this filckr stream.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Page Twenty-One

Maureen’s volunteer work will take place in an ominous setting.

Ominous view of the front of the State Home for Wayward Girls

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Something about combining a dark sky with Second Empire-style architecture is really good for atmospherics. Probably Charles Addams has a lot to do with this.

Image source the tumblr Ghastly Delights.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Nineteen

All the Waywards showered, Dr. Strangeways continues to eye them closely and take notes.

Dr. Strangeways inventories his new human material.

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For some strange reason, this page reminds me of this classical painting.

Paul Jamin (1853-1903), “Le Brenn et sa part de butin” (1893)

Image source is Wikipedia.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Seventeen

The assignment contains what Ulrich likes.

Monica caught and pressed naked up against the glass.

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The women-in-prison genre want on and on.

Source VHS Cover Junkie (aside: what an excellent idea for a tumblr!).

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Sixteen

F-Block’s shower room has a one-way observation mirror built in, of course.

Strangeways and Ulrich wach the Waywards shower.

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The shower scene is was a must in the proper women-in-prison movie. This one, which has been the subject of discussion here before, had rather a lot of them.

Poster found at Pirate Treasure.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Twelve

Warden Ridgeway’s shock and awe tactics work, even on this hardened younger offender.

Warden Ridgeway breaks a tough girl with a shocking demonstration

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The women-in-prison genre is often thought to have begun in the 1960s, although there are much earlier examples. This one, Caged, dates all the way back to 1950. The exploitation was always there, even back in “innocent” eras.

Source Dudes Macdougal.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Eleven

A demonstration for the newbies.

New inmates learn the price of misconduct.

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We are drawing here on a long, if not exactly grand, cinematic tradition, the Women-in-Prison film.

Poster source Cinematic Wasteland

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Ten

Induction into the State Home for Wayward Girls is a harsh experience for these six.

The scary induction into the State Home for Wayward Girls.

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I’m pleased to note that “Wayward Girl” is a concept with an artistic heritage.

Old poster found at Coitus & Carnage.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Eight

A glum delivery is being made to the State Home for Wayward Girls.

Six wayward girls delivered to the State Home

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This part of the State Home for Wayward Girls has a grim real-life model.

Architecture kudos to anyone who recognizes it (without peaking at the image title!).