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Okay, but The Illustrated Police News is basically the best thing ever and I can't wait to get prints made of many of their covers.
@ajroach42 i'm surprised that victorian women could show so much cleavage in that illustration. that must have been pure pornography for the time.
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@ajroach42 yikes, i take your point!
@chr And like, Penny Dreadfuls... Most of them weren't about monsters or anything.
The most popular ones were essentially soap operas full of scandalous behavior.
Stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysteries_of_London
@ajroach42 The octopus looks just as alarmed as the fair bathers
Look at this illustration. Victorian tabloids are the best.
https://retro.social/media/4lW_uoN5yQQ-nDJE7Qk