And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
So many questions…
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah. Torpedoes too.
ReplyDeleteCover art featuring … no guns … no gangsters …
ReplyDeleteJ. Jameson: Why pay for new art when we already bought this?
Because every woman goes swimming in heels.
ReplyDeleteAnd a giant knife apparently…
DeleteA real femme fatale, the shark was trying to give her a ride out of danger. That's the thanks he gets.
ReplyDeleteAugust, 1949.
ReplyDeleteOh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
ReplyDeleteAnd it shows them pearly white
Only 10 cents! What a deal!
ReplyDeleteabout gun control, 'I think*.
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.org/details/GunsAgainstGangstersV106
search it, fair amount of info.
An allegory for loan shark gangsters! (A guess)
ReplyDeleteBubbarust
I think that's Veronica Lodge.
ReplyDeleteDon't be silly. Consider the era: it's Bettie Page, natch.
ReplyDelete"Knives Against Sharks" has a Marilyn Monroe clone hosing down flat-nosed guys in suits with a Thompson.
In case anyone was wondering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ