Golden Princess Portal Fantasy, Fantastic Adventures August 1940
A flame-haired goddess erupts from a glowing dimensional portal above two astonished men hunched over a laboratory table. Clad in a golden breastplate and sweeping red cape, the radiant 'Golden Princess' brandishes a futuristic ray gun while a luminous cityscape shimmers behind her. Classic pulp fantasy staging — glamorous otherworldly beauty confronting ordinary men of science — rendered in vivid gouache with blazing oranges and electric greens that leap from the newsstand.
Peak pulp wish-fulfillment: a sword-and-planet goddess crashes through a glowing portal into some poor scientist's lab, ray gun already drawn. The composition is deliriously theatrical — all blazing halos and windswept capes — exactly what a kid at a 1940 drugstore would spend his last dime to read.
“6 GREAT STORIES OF FANTASY—ALL COMPLETE fantastic ADVENTURES AUGUST 20c The GOLDEN Princess by Robert Moore Williams The Strange Voyage of HECTOR SQUINCH . . . . By DAVID WRIGHT O'BRIEN”
