Dragon Attacks Woman as Hero Fires Pistol — Weird Tales July 1926
Primal terror radiates from this lurid Weird Tales cover as a coiling green dragon, wreathed in orange inferno, lunges toward a terrified woman in white while a determined gunman fires his pistol uselessly into the beast. The fiery background creates a hellish tableau of helplessness and last-ditch heroism, all rendered in vivid chromatic excess typical of early pulp cover art. The serpentine dragon's bulging eyes and open maw anchor a composition dripping with melodrama and desperate action.
A man is literally firing a handgun point-blank at a massive fire-breathing dragon while a woman in a flowing white dress recoils in abject horror — and the gun appears to be doing absolutely nothing. Peak pulp helplessness.
“Weird Tales The Unique Magazine July 1926 25¢ THROUGH the VORTEX DONALD EDWARD KEYHOE”
