The ubiquitous cover girl of the Golden Age of comics!
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.
Punch Comics #12, Chesler
“Who was the blonde gun-moll who fought the cops all the way to protect her worthless man?”
Whoever she was… she looks mean!
True Crime v1#3, Magazine Village
Not sure why the bamboo walls of the hut are red, but it allowed our heroine to try avoiding her captor’s attention by blending into the background using the inherent stealth camouflage of her Red Dress.
Fight Comics #20, Fiction House
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.
Key Comics #1, Consolidated
The Blonde in a Red Dress learns it’s not always true that “No noose is good noose”.
Pep Comics #25, MLJ
“READ THE STORY INSIDE!”
This comic book has reached the point where its cover tagline hyperbole feels as desperate for attention as an early dial-up era webpage with an animated GIF with blinking text that says “Click Here!”
Pep Comics #29, MLJ
How she sings as she swings through the air
Look below, there’s her field over there
With her one chute strap gone
She can still carry on
Comin’ in on a wing and a prayer
Wings Comics #73, Fiction House
Death Trap Week concludes with our heroine in danger of being burned at the stake… next to a bundle of dynamite… at a highly flammable petroleum refinery… while killer birds attack gunmen on rooftops and a guy in a fedora punches a guy in a sombrero…
Or in other words, just another typical Friday for the Blonde in a Red Dress.
Silver Streak Comics #23, Lev Gleason
If this was a modern action movie, someone would be making a quip about an “acid trip.”
Startling Comics v7 #21, Pines
The Blonde in a Red Dress has played lots of roles where she had to do her own stunts, but thankfully very few where she had to dress up in anthropomorphic cartoon funny animal costumes for an off-brand wacky “laugh-fest of gaily colored comics”.
Zoot Comics #2, by Fox