Our post from Sunday showed two guys who didn’t want to be rescued (sort of), and today, on this September 1964 cover of Australia’s Adam magazine, we have castaways that really need help. The illustration is for Hal Abbott’s story “Isle of Change,” a very interesting tale about a sailboat out of Pago Pago that sinks in a storm, marooning three survivors—first on a raft, then on a deserted island. One of the trio is a sailor devoted to his wife in Sydney, while the other two are scheming, dangerous women. In the end, one woman feeds the other to a shark that has been after them since the boat sank, and the sailor is compelled to keep the secret in order to avoid being blamed. Basically, the idea behind the story is: “There were savages on that island, and verily, they were us.” We have sixteen scans below, thirty-three issues of Adam already posted in the website, and eight more issues in the wings.
