Art by L.B. Cole for the cover of True-to-Life Romances #20, 1954.
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WOMAN SMOKING CIGARETTE (in background watching as a man an woman in the foreground dance): Can I cut in?
WOMAN DANCING WITH MAN: Only if you have a knife!
1954 Art: L.B. Cole Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Art Code: DJP.lk320
Art by L.B. Cole for the cover of True-to-Life Romances #20, 1954.
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WOMAN SMOKING CIGARETTE (in background watching as a man an woman in the foreground dance): Can I cut in?
WOMAN DANCING WITH MAN: Only if you have a knife!
1954 Art: L.B. Cole Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Art Code: DJP.lk320
Art by L.B. Cole for the cover of True-to-Life Romances #20, 1954.
WOMAN DANCING WITH MAN: Only if you have a knife!
1954 Art: L.B. Cole Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Art Code: DJP.lk320
Art by L.B. Cole for the cover of True-to-Life Romances #20, 1954.
Is he feeling her up with a prostetic hand?
I agree with Hedemand. What’s with that gloved? hand.
This strikes me as one of the rare times when the original art is equal to the revised art. That original cover must have been in very good shape. Vibrant colors, although a little too tan for my taste in skin coloration. I do like it that the “pokies” were retained in the revision.
I don’t think it’s supposed to be a glove, but the shading and the color (particularly in the original) does make it look like it. As for the art itself, the artist L.B. Cole is considered one of the greats by many fans.
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Peter, I’m so glad you’re enjoying the site. I have to admit I had to Google “pokies” myself, but when all the visual images “popped up” the meaning was delightfully apparent. (Thanks for enlarging my vocabulary as well, David.)