• the men's adventure genre of pulp magazine often featured damsels in distress menaced by Nazis?

Facts on topics related to Damsel in distress

Gothic fiction

• Sidonia von Borcke, executed for witchcraft in 1620, became a cult femme fatale in Victorian art and Gothic fiction?

Fairy tale

• fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks, an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania's best-known creators of comic strips?
• Iordan Chimet, who opposed the Communist regime in Romania and authored fairy tales with subversive messages, was also one of the first professional copywriters in his country?
• Phil Lynott was featured in a lunar ecliptic children's fairy tale which has been criticised by internet trolls?
• New Fairy Tales (illustration pictured) of 1844 is the most autobiographical of Hans Christian Andersen's several fairy tale collections?
• in 1696, Catherine Bernard established the aesthetic principle of the French literary conte de fées with the dictum: "the [adventures] should always be implausible and the emotions always natural"?
• the plot of the platform video game The Simpsons: Bart & the Beanstalk mimics that of the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk?
• the popular Lithuanian fairy tale hero EglÄ— the Queen of Serpents transformed herself and her children into trees as a punishment?

Greek mythology

• Apaliunas, a Luwian deity of Wilusa (Troy) attested among gods in a treaty inscription, ca. 1280 BCE, is a likely precursor of Apollo of Greek mythology?
• chryselephantine sculptures (fragments pictured) were monumental statues made of gold and ivory that depicted the gods in Ancient Greek temples?
• a major source for Greek mythology, the first Vatican Mythographer, survives in a single text in the Vatican Library?
• according to Greek mythology, Adonis was slain by a boar at the foot of the waterfall in Apheca in modern-day Lebanon?
• according to Greek mythology, the festival of Delia was instituted by Theseus after slaying the Minotaur (pictured)?
• in Greek mythology Gorgythion was one of the fifty sons of King Priam of Troy?
• in Greek mythology, Heracles chased off the man-eating birds of Lake Stymphalia by playing castanet-like clappers called "crotala"?
• in Greek mythology, Antiope was the only Amazon known to have married?
• in Greek mythology, Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse that could talk?
• in Greek mythology, Dorus is the name of the son of Hellen who was the eponymous founder of the Dorians?