A woman in a red sweater and yellow headscarf embraces an oversized snowman on this December cover of Flirt, a humor and romance magazine. The cover line promises "Peroxide and Wrestling," signaling the lighthearted, risqué content inside. Popular from the 1920s through 1950s, pulp magazines like Flirt occupied the space between serious fiction journals and comic books, featuring illustrated covers by commercial artists and digest-sized stories aimed at working-class readers. These publications—devoted to romance, humor, adventure, and crime—established visual and narrative conventions that directly influenced the emerging comic book industry, particularly in pose, color, typography, and the pairing of illustration with sensational cover lines.
About this artifact
- Date
- December 1950
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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