Image is a cover of Horror Stories (August 1936) and contains the text “Horror Stories. Hell’s Hungry Chidlren, a horror novel you’ll remember! by Arthur Leo Zagat. Knox, Ernst, Burks, Edson.” Found in this index at The Golden Age.
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Death’s red stream
Image is a cover of Horror Stories (February-March 1936) and contains the text “Horror Stories. Death’s Red Stream. Spine-tingling horror-mystery novelette by George Edson. Wyatt Blassingame. Arthur J. Burks. Wayne Rogers. A lodging in Hell! by Arthur Leo Zagat.” Found in this gallery at The Golden Age.
Under the bottom ray
I found this image in this post at BondageBlog. Rope Guy’s original comments were
I’m not sure exactly what the eerie ray the bug-eyed monsters in the tentacle-suits are pointing at this poor girl’s bottom is supposed to be doing to it. But judging by the rapt attention of the audience, it must be something rather entertaining!
and his attribution
Art is a detail from the cover of an old Marvel Science Stories.
Thrilling Mystery
As is evident, this is the cover of an issue of Thrilling Mystery magazine. Specifically, it’s the August 1936 edition, as indicated here. A modern reproduction of the cover is available for purchase, but no information on the cover artist is available. Text on the cover reads “Thrilling Mystery. Spawn of the Slime: A Horror Novelette of the Evil Seas byHal K. Wells. Food for the Wolf, a Novelette of Howling Terror by G.T. Fleming-Roberts. The Grave Gives Up, A Novelette of the Living Dead, by Jack D’Arcy. Featuring City of Creeping Death, a Weird Mayan Novelette by John H. Knox.”
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
More Terror Tales
As is evident from the image, this is the cover of a Terror Tales magazine, with the following text visible on the cover: “Terror Tales. Brides for the Damned, a pulse-speeding mystery terror novel by Wayne Rogers. Blassingame – Quinliven – Cummings – Dale Clark.” According to this page it is Volume 6, #4: the September-October issue from 1936. The Internet Science Fiction Database says of this issue that the cover artist was John Howitt, which is consistent with the “H” artist signature visible lower right. A replica of this issue is commercially available.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Fantasy Illustrated
As is evident, this is the cover from Fantasy Illustrated #6. According to this blog post, Fantasy Illustrated was an early comics fanzine published by Bill Spicer in the 1960s. Issue #6 was published in 1966 and features cover art by D. Bruce Perry according to this site, which also lists more contents of the ‘zine.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Weird Comics
As is evident, this is the cover of Weird Comics #2. Text on the cover includes: “Weird Comics. The mummy stirred…a gun flashed and blasted the fiend into eternity. Thor – Sorceress of Zoom — Blast Bennett.” According to this page (where the comic may be viewed in its entirety and where its entire contents are listed) the comic was published in May of 1940 by Fox Feature Syndicate. According to ComicVine the cover artist is Lou Fine.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Terror Tales
As is evident from the image, this is the cover of a Terror Tales magazine; text on the cover reads “Terror Tales. Blood-chilling novelettes: Satan’s Love Bazaar by Wayne Rogers. Dance of the Bloodless Ones by Francis James. Dale Cummings and others.” According to this page our cover is from the July-August 1937 issue, and the cover artist was John A. Coughlin. This offer for a replica edition details more about the stories inside the magazine.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Horror Story
As is evident from the image, this is the cover of an issue of the vintage magazine Horror Stories. The visible cover text reads “Horror Stories. Daughter of Dark Desire: Long Mystery-Horror Novel by Norvell W. Page. The Bus Death Drove: Spine-Tingling Horror Novelette by Wayne Rogers. James – Sperry – Burns.” This particular issue is the April-May issue dating from, according to this page, 1937. The cover art is by artist John Drew, according to this biographical sketch page that includes the art via a 1937-04 Horror Stories link. This auction listing details the stories in the magazine that are not identified on the cover, and additionally confirms the John Drew cover art attribution.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Frankestein’s Monster and the vore plant
Original post here. The pair of images are a comic with captions and dialog as follows:
Panel One
Title (1): The Monster of Frankestein and the Plant
The Scientist (2): There. See? It eats spiders now! The plant eats spiders! It has advanced — only week ago it could only eat flies! What will it be able to eat next week? And the week after? And then, in time, perhaps…
Panel Two
Caption (1): The scientist puts the baby donw on the floor in reach of the plant’s tentacles…and at the same time, the Frankenstein Monster emerges from another room…
Panel Three
Caption (1): The monster quickly sees what is going to happen to the baby. Infuriated, he sends the scientist sprawling…
Panel Four
Caption (1): …and grabs the baby out of the way of the reaching tentacles!
Panel Five
The Scientist (1): You moronic beast! What are you doing? Helping me or hindering me? You’re here to help me! Give me that baby!
Panel Six
The Scientist (1): Save me! Save me! Get this thing off me! I’ll do anything for you — give you anything! But save me before it eats me!
Panel Seven
Caption (1): The Frankestein monster moves toward the scientist. But his steps are slow. Not those of someone coming to another’s aid
The Scientist (2): Hurry! I can –feel –the teeth in me — hurry!
Panel Eight
The Scientist (1): Why — don’t you — get here faster…just get this thing…off me…and YAAAAH!
Panel Nine
Caption (1): Almost like a living animal, the plant pulsates, little sounds come from it as an awful hedeous thing happens! And the monster watches, just stands there and watches for two hours…
Panel Ten
Caption (1): That is all. The Frankenstein Monster knows the scientist will never bother him or anyone else evermore.
Panel Eleven
Caption (1): The plant is no longer hungry…its appetite is satiated. From flies to spiders to mice to a cat…and now an entire man. and the buds atop the plant once more undergo a change — a ghastly, awful change…
Image sourced via greatgrottu. Original text:
Some people think that Charles B. Griffith got the idea for his 1960 screenplay The Little Shop of Horrors from the 1931 short story Green Thoughts by John Collier, me I think a more likely candidate is a comic book story by Dick Briefer from 1951, The Monster of Frankenstein and the Plant.
Not the same, but look at the the design of the plant and the ending.