"Good Girl" art is a category that transcends normal comic book genres. Humor, adventure, sci-fi and more have all featured "Good Girl" art. "Good Girl" art is usually drawn in the pin up tradition. The scene might be risque for the time of publication. Prominent breasts (known as 'headlights') were the rule. "Good Girls" were usually athletic, smart women who might fall into precarious positions. So what about "Bad Girls", you ask? Criminal bad girls are a much rarer breed, but they do appear.
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Below are selected book covers from the George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection. Please wait for page to fully load then click images to enlarge. For more images from the Kelley Collection visit UBdigit Pulp Fiction Cover Art Collection.
The scenes depicted in his pictures are from the world at large and his duck often appears in absurd and universal settings. There really is nothing in his paintings that you could put your finger on to connect them to any particular corner of the world,