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Amarih Gale amarih08213195 — I finished reading Dames, Dolls, And Gun Molls last night. It’s a slim overview of the art of Robert A. Maguire, an artist primarily known for his paperback cover work in the 50s and early 60s featuring sexy women who were frequently dangerous or endangered or even both. Although Silke’s an entertaining writer, the main attraction of the book is the numerous reproductions of Maguire’s work. Dames… contains many images of: as published paperback covers (frequently 4 to the oversize pages); the paintings used for the covers (without the publishers’ cropping and text, many full page); color and black and white “roughs”; plus some of the photos of models Maguire based his paintings on. The publisher (Dark Horse) apparently knows why this reader bought this book: of the approximately 100 pages in the book, only 20 contain appreciable amounts of text. And few (if any) of those contain only text. In one short section I particularly enjoyed, Silke compares a model’s photo with the finished art. He describes the more or less subtle changes Maguire made to the model’s figure for the painting. Although the changes are fairly obvious once Silke pointed them out, I wouldn’t have picked some of them out myself. The changes in color, yes; the changes in body proportions, probably not. I enjoy Maguire’s work and I am sure his paintings helped to sell books. His heyday was a little before my paperback buying years and I don’t remember seeing any of the covers included in Dames, …. However I do remember seeing many mystery books, for example those by Carter Brown, with similar covers. Perhaps one or more of them was a Maguire painting. Maguire is not quite my favorite artist in this genre; Robert McGinnis gets the nod there. But still Maguire’s art is very much to my liking. I only have two complaints with this book. First some of the cover reproductions are on the small side. Even though the book is oversized (12 x 9), when the covers are shown 4 per page they’re a little smaller than the paperbacks they graced. Fortunately, many of the images (especially those of the original paintings) are full page. Second, I would have liked a lot more images!

Paul Willhite _ixicated — I CRIED!!! Tearjerker!!! But I loved it!