The ubiquitous cover girl of the Golden Age of comics!
Y’know, declaring “It’s New!” about a book with that much obvious cover wear is a great way to ensure negative customer feedback on your seller’s page.
Wait, isn’t a “shotgun wedding” usually intended to keep the groom from running away, not the bride? (And besides, a Red Dress isn’t much of a wedding gown.)
Uh oh! That grave looks like it’s gonna be getting real crowded. (Is the Blonde in a Red Dress the “Fran Smith” on the tombstone, or the “?”)
I would normally assume that this cover was meant to be symbolic of the threat of death looming over a life of crime… but given the habit of the Blonde in a Red Dress to do stuff like chase after a witch’s hoard, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an actual attack by a literal giant skull monster.
“Who was the blonde gun-moll who fought the cops all the way to protect her worthless man?”
Whoever she was… she looks mean!
These crime comics can be so formulaic. But sometimes the characters have great chemistry.
The angles were so odd in this action scene that the Red Dress itself got dizzy and wound up clinging to our heroine for support.
The Blonde in a Red Dress Bathrobe takes a brief nap while waiting for her next “Action Mystery Adventure”
The Blonde in a Red Dress is probably screaming more from that pun than from the crook with a gun.
The Blonde in a Red Dress proves her hardboiled credentials by facing down a menacing strangler with nothing more than a look of extreme annoyance at the body splayed on the floor behind her. Lazy slacker, leaving her to do all the work by herself!