For this week's set of Weird Tales covers, I thought I'd contrast last week's overtures of lesbian sadism with a sampling of women being menaced, usually while bound, and often with whips, by sinister men. By now a common theme in Weird Tales covers should be clearly evident due to the fact that, as Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright noted, the issues with kinky covers sold out quickly. Notice how many of the villains are dressed in masked, hooded robes.
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| January, 1933 |
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| April, 1934 |
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| September, 1934 |
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| March, 1936 |
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| January, 1937 |
And, in a rare example of equal-opportunity kink, a cover depicting a busty woman whipping some naked men...
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| October, 1937 |
Of course, these themes only got a whole lot more explicit as the pulp magazines gave way to both comics (pre-code) and the men's adventure magazines of the 50s/60s.
ReplyDeleteHow true. Magazines like Man's Adventure and True Men were incredibly lurid and seemed to have a real fetish for stories about Nazi sex slaves.
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ReplyDeleteNice, scary (and kinda funny) bondage imagery here. With a hot spider lady!
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