JD knew he should have stayed home and watched ‘Leave it to Beaver’ on the telly. He was minus his leather jacket, minus his switchblade but still in the slums and with the wrongest woman in town who absolutely insisted he accompany her at once to the library. Next she’d be insisting he wear a colourful dress. He looked around warily. Good – none of his mates to see him in this dire predicament……….. I love the noirish look of this cover with the washing the only colour and the TV antennas criss-crossing the sky and the factory stacks looming above everything else. Hey! it reminds me of my own slum in East Perth circa 1974. But best of all I like the fact the girl is not our usual pretty pulp temptress but a rather plain damsel wearing glasses.
JD knew he should have stayed home and watched ‘Leave it to Beaver’ on the telly. He was minus his leather jacket, minus his switchblade but still in the slums and with the wrongest woman in town who absolutely insisted he accompany her at once to the library. Next she’d be insisting he wear a colourful dress. He looked around warily. Good – none of his mates to see him in this dire predicament……….. I love the noirish look of this cover with the washing the only colour and the TV antennas criss-crossing the sky and the factory stacks looming above everything else. Hey! it reminds me of my own slum in East Perth circa 1974. But best of all I like the fact the girl is not our usual pretty pulp temptress but a rather plain damsel wearing glasses.