Showing posts with label John Erskine. Show all posts
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Monday, October 1, 2007

Paperback 21: Graphic Giant G-216

Paperback 21: Graphic Giant G-216 (1st Graphic ptg, 1956)

Title: The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Author: John Erskine
Cover artist: Unknown :(

Yours for: $8

Best things about this cover:

  • This is one of the worst cover paintings - in terms of pure artistic quality - that I've ever seen. Mucky, awkward, poor in detail. Just a mess. And yet...
  • Nice rack. Seriously. Her bangs are terrible, but her boobs ... are not. There is another, earlier version of this same book (which I own) that is famous for its "nipple cover" - but you'll have to wait for that one.
  • If the background is to be believed, Troy was destroyed by a nuclear holocaust of some kind
  • This is a wraparound cover, where the painting continues onto the spine and then the back of the book...


Best thing about this back cover:

  • First word: GAY!
  • Boats make every cover better
  • If I'm counting correctly, there are a total of 4 Helens on this book's front and back covers. That is almost certainly a record for appearances of one character on a single cover

RP