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Tag: women in crime

June 1948 issue ~ cover art by George Gross

June 1948

cover art by George Gross

better image than previously posted

[updated 5/6/25]

Posted on July 7, 2024May 6, 2025Categories finest kind, Hardboiled, magazine, pulp, spicy, true crimeTags dame, femme fatale, garter, george gross, lingerie, smoking, stockings, woman with a gun, women in crimeLeave a comment on June 1948 issue ~ cover art by George Gross

cover art by George Gross

Daughter of Satan, Women in Crime pulp digest cover, March 1948
Oil on canvas, 20 x 15 in.
Signed lower right

Posted on June 17, 2024May 13, 2024Categories finest kind, Hardboiled, magazine, original art, pulp, spicy, true crimeTags dame, femme fatale, george gross, oil on canvas, woman with a gun, women in crimeLeave a comment on cover art by George Gross

April 1957 issue

April 1957

HELLCATS IN DUNGAREES!!

Posted on March 30, 2024January 11, 2024Categories Hardboiled, magazine, true crimeTags pulp illustration, women in crimeLeave a comment on April 1957 issue

March 1950 issue

better image than previously posted      

Posted on March 1, 2024January 2, 2024Categories Hardboiled, magazine, pulp, spicy, true crimeTags dame, femme fatale, women in crimeLeave a comment on March 1950 issue

March 1948 issue ~ cover art by George Gross

oil on canvas, 15 1/4″ x 20 1/4″

Posted on February 13, 2024December 31, 2023Categories finest kind, Hardboiled, magazine, original art, pulp, spicy, true crimeTags dame, femme fatale, finest kind, george gross, original art, woman with a gun, women in crimeLeave a comment on March 1948 issue ~ cover art by George Gross

November 1952 issue


Acrylic on board
15 x 13 inches (38.1 x 33.0 cm)
Not signed

True Cases of Women in Crime magazine cover, November 1952

Posted on November 22, 2023December 29, 2023Categories Hardboiled, magazine, original art, pulp, true crimeTags dame, femme fatale, moll, original art, pulp art, true crime, woman with a gun, women in crime, women in prisonLeave a comment on November 1952 issue

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