Crimes by Women #14
Crimes by Women #14* from Fox Feature Syndicate is dated August 1950.
Pulp novel website Criminal Element has a tremendous write-up of the series, so no use in me repeating the history here. A short snippet gives a nice summary:
“Crimes By Women was maybe the purest example of the Fox pulp trash aesthetic. Geared toward the audience that was devouring pulp novels and the never-ending series of crime pictures rolling out of the Hollywood B-units, the comic privileged movement and violence over plot.”
The femme fatales in film noir served as a seedy underbelly to the “perfect housewife” portraits of women exemplified by June Cleaver and Harriet Nelson in the mainstream media of the 1950’s.
Quick and cost efficient, the use of a “swipe” image of the same guy in the same story helped to churn out art fast and cheap.
As an “added bonus” to the degenerate behavior filled-rag mag, our “swiped guy” (Donald) sneaks a blonde “Harriet” (Mary) a marijuana cigarette.
*sold copy of #14 but purchased cover only of #7
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