Showing posts with label Meat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meat. Show all posts

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Paperback 324: Keep Cool, Mr. Jones / Timothy Fuller (Dell 594)

Paperback 324: Dell 594 (1st ptg, 1952)

Title: Keep Cool, Mr. Jones
Author: Timothy Fuller
Cover artist: Robert Stanley

Yours for: $11


Best things about this cover:
  • If the ridiculously low-cut blouse didn't get you looking at her boobs, the gun is there to point you in the right direction.
  • "Get me a brisket, Mr. Jones."
  • "What? We like to be surrounded by cold slabs of meat when we do it. Don't judge us."
  • She has an interesting variation on Fear Hand™—like she's timidly waving at the gun-wielder ("uh ... hi honey") or about to sling her web à la Spidey.
  • Jupiter Jones ... and ... January Jones ... in ... 'We Meat Again'!


Best things about this back cover:
  • "For design inspiration, we're going to give you a hard-boiled egg and two dominoes."
  • You'd expect the final tagline to be some kind of outrageous pun or exciting teaser, not a *literal description of what you can see on the cover.*

Page 123~

Bateman put a telephone on the bar. When Jupiter walked up to it Joe nodded quickly at Maney and whispered, "Drunk and ugly. Watch it." And then, normally, "All the comforts of home."

~RP

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