Green Skin Menace: Fantastic Adventures June Cover, Woman in Skin 13
Inspired by Gerald Vance's pulp tale 'The Woman in Skin 13,' this lurid cover depicts Mary, transformed by the mysterious Green Menace into a luminous emerald-skinned woman, fleeing across an alien landscape clutching a ray gun. A blue-gray male figure guards her flank as bat-winged reptilian creatures wheel overhead near dome-shaped structures. The painting epitomizes Atomic Age pulp excess — vivid green flesh, exotic threat, and barely-clothed feminine danger rendered in lush, dramatic gouache.
She's green, she's armed, and whatever made her that way is still out there — run! Peak Ziff-Davis fever-dream pulp at its most gloriously unhinged.
“JUNE 25¢ THE LION'S MOUTH By STEPHEN MARLOWE fantastic ADVENTURES Hatred of the Green Menace turned Mary into THE WOMAN IN SKIN 13 By Gerald Vance”
