There is more to this illustration than the cruel torture of the woman in the foreground. It looks like the two creeps in the back are about to dump another woman in a boiling vat of something and I do not know who the guy at the door is trying to shoot.
This is Rudolph W. Zirm.
This no longer looks to me like a Rudolph W. Zirm cover.
It now somewhat reminds me of Grant Hargis.
An inordinately elaborate contrivance for puncturing attractive young ladies(!)
There is more to this illustration than the cruel torture of the woman in the foreground. It looks like the two creeps in the back are about to dump another woman in a boiling vat of something and I do not know who the guy at the door is trying to shoot.
The gun has already fired and it appears to be pointing at the strapped in lady. Perhaps this is a mercy killing to spare her from a torturous death.