To celebrate our 100th post on Wally Wood, here's Woody's SUSIE STRIPPER
from the 1950's. I'll be honest with you, I'm not at all sure where this paper doll came from--some adult mag, one assumes. This clip, however, appeared in THE BETTY PAGES, issue 2, the one with the amusing Woodyesque cover by avowed Wood fan Bill Wray.
from the 1950's. I'll be honest with you, I'm not at all sure where this paper doll came from--some adult mag, one assumes. This clip, however, appeared in THE BETTY PAGES, issue 2, the one with the amusing Woodyesque cover by avowed Wood fan Bill Wray.
Looks rather like Kurtzman's way of doing late 50s magazine humor, especially with the text. This might be from "Trump" and originally in color.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent guess but I have the two TRUMP issues and it's my recollection that Wood has minimal work in one and none in two. Stewart's indispensible index confirms this and Susie is not mentioned for TRUMP. Of course, it isn't mentioned for DUDE, GENT, CAVALCADE or any of the other men's mags Wood comtributed to in the fifties either, so...
ReplyDeleteOK, I'll give it another shot. This appears to be a fairly small page size, given that the text is probably around 12pts. A small-format men's mag doesn't seem that likely, as the idea of such is lots of nice big girlie pictures. Did Wood ever work for "Pageant", which was small-format? This stuff is not that remote from Elder's "Pageant" work as featured in "Mad Playboy of Art".
ReplyDeleteAnother excellent guess, the problem being that the small pages seen here are from the digest-sized BETTIE PAGES reprint, thus rendering that moot as far as clues.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it does, by the way, look as if it had been in color originally.
But was the text reset for "Bettie Pages"? That no-nonsense sans font with the generous letter spacing looks very fiftyish indeed. - Next clue: what about those G:s on that garment? And the "007" - James Bond movies would put us into 1962 and on. Though of course he was a book character before.
ReplyDeleteNot Trump, nor any of the Pageant, Gent, Nugget, Gent, etc. listed issues that are mentioned on the various checklists. I would live to know where this was originally published!
ReplyDeletehahaha!!! that is so cool! I love the summons!
ReplyDeleteWhy not write the betty page publisher for info?
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