Original post here. The image consists of a comics panel captioned “The Missing Models Mystery.” In the panel a painter holds his palette and addresses a captive, bound, scantily-clad model who is about to be lowered onto a sharp spike via a system of pulleys. The painter’s words are “That is known as ‘la veglia’ — the vigil. Presently, you will sink upon that point and experience exquisite agony. Then I shall pain another of my immortal canvases.” Original text on tumblr damsellover:

Sally the Sleuth, Spicy Tales, April 1937