A woman's face dominates this cover against a vivid red ground, her wavy auburn hair framing composed features and red lips. Mistletoe hangs above her head, signaling the December holiday issue. The painted portrait style—soft modeling, idealized beauty—typifies 1930s commercial magazine cover art. Maclean's, Canada's leading general-interest weekly, competed with American pulps through eye-catching cover illustrations that promised entertainment inside: fiction, humor, and celebrity profiles. This cover advertises features on actors Warwick Deeping and Alice Ross Colver. The ten-cent price and Christmas imagery mark a transitional moment when mass-market magazines balanced literary content with the visual spectacle that would soon define comic books.
About this artifact
- Date
- December 15, 1933
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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