Dwarf Menace Bondage
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That the bound woman is at the mercy of an evil dwarf - a popular stereotype of the pulp era - rather than the target bondage is what drew my eye when I first saw this image (original art for a pulp magazine).
The kinky covers weren't really H.J. Ward's specialty. I'm sure he painted whatever the editor, desperate to serve tthe newstand customers' appetites, told him to paint.
There's a book about H.J. Ward:
