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Pinup of the Week: Amazing Stories June 1948

I certainly am having fun making up captions for these pictures…

“Great news guys. Every single one of these icicles on this planet contains a beautiful girl! And with any luck, none of them will speak English!”

“Now Bernie, remember when we had that argument about what color you mean when you call someone ginger? THIS is ginger!”

“I don’t know… Maybe… Maybe somewhere on this planet lives a man so horrible that all these women’s hearts turned to ice and froze them like this, forever! Maybe that man is me. I’m not perfect. She does look a little familiar.”

ICE CITY of the GORGON
by RICHARD S. SHAVER and CHESTER S. GEIER

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Posted December 16, 2011 at 7:02 am in Pin-up of the Week with Tags: 1940s, 1948, dystopian, erotic, girl in a jar, redheads, Science Fiction, sleazy cover. See 0 Comments

Propnomicon Gear

Regular readers will no doubt be familiar with the amazing Cthulhu mythos prop site Propnomicon, and if you’re not, now is the perfect day to acquaint yourself. In the past I’ve provided information about Propnomicon’s Kickstarter projects.

Recently, Propnomicon posted photos of a frankly shocking and ghastly parasitic worm specimen in a jar that they are selling on eBay. Click here for the post on Propnomicon. For the curious, more pictures and a short back-story can be seen here on eBay. I clicked the link and discovered that along with the parasitic worm prop they are also selling some of the cool badges and gear from past projects. So if you missed getting in on any of Propnomicon’s Kickstarter projects, it’s not too late to score some gear. My favorites are the Antarctic and Australian expedition patches. This is, by the way, a great way to support sites that are doing this very important work for the benefit of humankind. Check out Propnomicon’s stuff on eBay.

P.S. All photos here are by Propnomicon, who I hope won’t mind my including them here.

Posted November 18, 2011 at 7:23 am in Art and Stuff with Tags: 1920s, 1930s, art, Cthulhu, girl in a jar, H.P. Lovecraft, horror, Kickstarter, Propnomicon. See 1 Comment

Pinup of the Week: Horror Stories December 1939

Ah ha ha yes dear reader, ANOTHER ‘girl in a jar‘ pulp cover. This one has our hero mashed in there with her, and our menacing friend there seems to be timing how long it takes for the rope to burn through. He must have worse OCD than I do. That’s compulsive.

“Twenty! Twenty seconds so far! Ah! Ah! Ah! I love counting doomed seconds!”

Meanwhile in his left hand, he’s got a bricklayer’s trowel. And there are dates on the jar, on the brass plaque: “1939 – 3439″. Up nearer the top, the jar says “TIME CAPSULE”, unless I’m mistaken. I hope he’s not too addled to realize that these two aren’t going to stay fresh until 3439. That’s a perfectly good blonde he’s wasting!

If you blur your eyes you can see Felix the Cat in this cover. See his head? It’s the shadow on the mad scientist’s red shirt. Either that or I’ve been staring at this too long…

GIRLS FOR THE
CORPSE CLAN
A BLOOD-CHILLING HORROR NOVEL
by DANE GREGORY

***

DANCE
IN DEATH’S
CABARET
by RUSSELL GRAY

***

EDITH AND EJLER JACOBSON
*
DONALD DALE
*
RALSTON SHIELDS

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Posted October 21, 2011 at 7:39 am in Pin-up of the Week with Tags: 1930s, blonde, erotic, evil mechanism, girl in a jar, mad scientist, sleazy cover. See 3 Comments

Pinup of the Week: Horror Stories October 1939

“Sheesh!” You say as you slap your forehead. “Just how many of these crazy ‘girl in a jar‘ pulp covers can there be in the world?” The answer might just startle you. OK. OK. I’m just pulling your leg. There aren’t enough to startle anybody. More like just enough to make a person certain that it’s a meme of the age we’re talking about. This one happens to be by one of my favorite cover artists, who I suspect was John Drew, but who I call “Goldie” after the same girl who shows up over and over in the covers.

Great titles all around here:

GIRLS ENSLAVED
IN GLASS
EXCITING MYSTERY-HORROR
NOVEL BY
RUSSELL
GRAY

TWO NOVELETTES OF EERIE MENACE
MEAT FOR SATAN’S
ICEBOX
by FRANCIS JAMES

* AND *

I STEAL
YOUR BLOOD
by DANE GREGORY

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Posted September 2, 2011 at 6:50 am in Pin-up of the Week with Tags: 1930s, girl in a jar, goldie, lingerie, mad scientist, sleazy cover. See 0 Comments

Pinup of the Week: Amazing Stories January 1942

This one is kind of following the theme of last week’s pin-up. Those cooky mad scientists are at it again. Of course these guys are totally on the wrong track. The head goes up, gentlemen. Up!

The
TEST TUBE
GIRL
By FRANK PATTON

MYSTERY of the BLUE GOD by HARRY BATES

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Posted August 27, 2011 at 8:40 pm in Pin-up of the Week with Tags: 1940s, aliens, erotic, evil mechanism, girl in a jar, Science Fiction, sleazy cover. See 0 Comments

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