Revenge of the Pulps

[Apostate]

View attachment 734440 Let's see now ... that's me on the left, obviously regretting publishing those stories ... Eul on the right ... and who is that in the middle? And what is to become of us now?

So I went looking for "female crucifixion pulp art" and ran across this.

'Pulp Macabre': The Art of a Guy Who Used to Bring Severed Heads to the Bar

The art of Lee Brown Coye features the type of work that made fans of horror and science fiction fanzines drool—grisly worlds filled with ghouls, monsters, and morbid anatomy.

www.vice.com

I am bereft of comment.

 

[Whipperv3]

Then perhaps you might like this alteration of how the photo ought to have looked if the hero somehow didn't managed to rescue his lady fair . . .

Thank you very much, bleumune!

 

[Whipperv3]

I follow this thread sporadically, but when I ran across this 2008 book by Amanda Marcotte, said thread came to mind.

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It's amazing how many different comic book jungle women in constantly varying outfits there have been over the years. Sheena and Nyoka are just a couple of names that come to mind.

 

[Apostate]

It's amazing how many different comic book jungle women in constantly varying outfits there have been over the years. Sheena and Nyoka are just a couple of names that come to mind.

Then of course there was Nina Trent, the prototypical White Jungle Goddess (fast forward to the 7:10 mark).

The actress Edwina Booth was goddam good. And she got so sick while shooting Trader Horn in East Africa that her promising career was finished.

 

[Whipperv3]

Then of course there was Nina Trent, the prototypical White Jungle Goddess (fast forward to the 7:10 mark).

The actress Edwina Booth was goddam good. And she got so sick while shooting Trader Horn in East Africa that her promising career was finished.

Apostate, thanks a lot for posting this clip, you can tell from the scene where the barely-covered jungle goddess goes crazy with a whip that this film was definitely pre-code. And a look at the history of the making of this movie is also pretty damn interesting, since it was the first non-documentary feature actually shot in Africa. Just about everybody got malaria and somebody got killed by a charging rhino, a scene which they left in the film.

 

[Whipperv3]

Okay, I'll start off the jungle women comics with an issue of the comic that was used for that book on feminism:



These comics fall into roughly two categories, ones in which the jungle gals keep having to be rescued by men and the ones where they do most of the rescuing. Lorna looks like she could mostly hold her own.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

A real fashion statement in Safari wear.

 

[Whipperv3]

In this one Kanga the Jungle Lord is coming to his mate's rescue.



And here another leopard-skin-clad beauty requires some help.



Nyoka not only switched publishers from Fawcett to Charlton; she went from being a brunette to a blonde.



And Rulah appears to have been something of a badass.

 

[Whipperv3]

Here are a couple of Sheena covers, and like I think I said before, you hardly ever see these women wearing exactly the same outfit twice.



I'll finish up with some miscellaneous lesser-known jungle babes.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Here are a couple of Sheena covers, and like I think I said before, you hardly ever see these women wearing exactly the same outfit twice.

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I'll finish up with some miscellaneous lesser-known jungle babes.

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Do you know the age/era of these comics?

 

[Whipperv3]

Do you know the age/era of these comics?

There are two benchmarks I know of for American comic books: the comics code seal and the price change from 10 to 12 cents.

The comics code seals started being put on in 1954, so most older comics without them were printed before that. And in 1961-62, the price of regular sized comics went from a dime to 12 cents, so any ten cent comic book was probably printed before then. That would date most of these comics as having been put out in the 40s or early fifties, I think.

None of the covers WITH the code seal are priced above 10 cents, so they would range from 1954-1961.

(The Comics Code arose out of a public outcry about some comic books being too gory or sexual and not being suitable for children.)

I am by no means an expert on this subject, and it is entirely possible a few of the lesser publishers might have sold their comics for a dime past 1962, but DC and Marvel went to 12 cents at that time. All the comics I remember buying in the 60s were 12 cents or higher.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Man's Adventure May 1961 (only four more posts in the Ordeal of the Belly Dancer!)

Hey, English members. How are those housewife strippers doing?
Afraid of snakes anyone?
Don't you think the Arabs could take off more of her clothes before throwing her to the cobras?

 

[Apostate]

Man's Adventure May 1961 (only four more posts in the Ordeal of the Belly Dancer!)
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Hey, English members. How are those housewife strippers doing?
Afraid of snakes anyone?
Don't you think the Arabs could take off more of her clothes before throwing her to the cobras?

Elizabeth Bathory?

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Elizabeth Bathory?

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Probably. She tortured and murdered hundreds of young women. The blood drinking was just part of her Keto diet. If this wasn't named after cruxs, she should be the patroness saint of this site!

 

[Frank Petrexa]

Apostate, thanks a lot for posting this clip, you can tell from the scene where the barely-covered jungle goddess goes crazy with a whip that this film was definitely pre-code. And a look at the history of the making of this movie is also pretty damn interesting, since it was the first non-documentary feature actually shot in Africa. Just about everybody got malaria and somebody got killed by a charging rhino, a scene which they left in the film.

There was a much later film called "Naked Prey", in which supposedly one of the black extras was bitten by a cobra and died.
Wikipedia says Edwina Booth got malaria (as did a lot of others) and maybe schistosomiasis. Then there is sleeping sickness spread by tsetse flies.
(In the cartoon, "Rhinoceros poetry", Gary Larsen has a rhino reciting: "Africa, my Africa/under azure skies/Africa, my Africa/Look out! Damn tsetse flies")
Any of those things could cause life-long debilitation, and running around half-naked doesn't help.
I did notice that the guy she whips is wearing a tie. That ruined the whole mood for me.
Nice post. I guess it's more interesting than people running around amid endless explosions. There seems to have actually been a plot.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

As the Dancer comes to a conclusion, I will post a bunch of Arab covers without comment. I will revisit some time in the future for detailed comment. For the time being note the frequent cooperation depicted between Nazi and Arab (in contravention to my story).


And a female Dom

 

[connoisseurs]

"I fell 50000 feet"
"And what happend then?"
"What do you think, you dumbass? I hit the ground and died!"

 

[Whipperv3]

This is a great one that I have never seen; I love the woman's very ornate brassiere and hip-hugging gold belt. I also like the undulating black whip. And no, that holster's not phallic, not in the least...

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

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This is a great one that I have never seen; I love the woman's very ornate brassiere and hip-hugging gold belt. I also like the undulating black whip. And no, that holster's not phallic, not in the least...

And her expression! Almost child-like glee along with a deep, erotic arousal!

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

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