Ray-gun girl versus tentacular monster

This image is a reblog from this 21 June 2015 post at Infernal Wonders. It’s a crop from the January 1958 cover of Science Fiction Adventures.

According to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database the cover is the work of American illustrator John Schoenherr (1935-2010), who is famous for, among other things, providing the original cover illustration to Frank Herbert’s Dune.

Another hungry (or horny?) octopus

This image is reblogged from this 10 May 2015 post at Infernal Wonders. A note from the source tumblr indicates that it is a detail from the cover of a 1970s Spanish comic Escorpión, issue #28. I couldn’t find too much about this publication, but its entry in the Grand Comics Database indicates that it was published in 1973 and 1974. They don’t have many covers, but those that they do have suggest that scantily-clad women being menaced by giant invertebrates was a repeat thing.