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Weird Tales vol. 20, no. 3 (September 1932)

She's making the classic pearl-clutching gesture but her pearls have gone missing. Understandable in the circumstances.

I *think* the guy is trying to sacrifice her to his chameleon/flying fish god but maybe that's unconscious anti-bejewelled-turban bias. He could be saving her?

Original magazine: archive.org/details/Weird_Tale

@SFFMagazineCovers I appreciate that you interrogate your own biases

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Carlos and Esmeralda were exhausted. That last dance had taken everything they had.

Now they were waiting. Waiting for the judge's decision - would they make it into the finals?

No one had told them just how stressful Dancing with the Stars was!

@SFFMagazineCovers she's got amazing side boob for her day and age so she must be very distressed