Golden Comics #2

Part of Univers Comics' Comics Culture line celebrating Golden Age comic books, this 2009 French-language reprint collection brings together vintage pin-up adventures under the title Weird Pin-Up Tales. Matt Baker's cover sets an immediate tone of glamour and tension — a statuesque blonde in a silver-blue dress reacts with surprise as a gun is trained on her, while a small inset portrait of the dark-haired Princesse Pantha hints at the variety of femmes fatales waiting inside. With Al Hartley illustrating "Menace to our Marriage" and the promise of Princesse Pantha et ses copines, this is a stylish showcase of mid-century sequential art with real personality.