Speculating about this cover: Slow strangulation? What is the sheet attached to that is around her neck? What is that in front of her and what is on it? Looks like a painting. If so, was she a model and that is why she is naked?
I think that it is a photo with a narrow depth of field, shot with a camera with a tilt and shift lens. Regardless, it is from 1949, a few years before the comic code was enforced. And as we know, that covered the whole pulp industry.
Speculating about this cover: Slow strangulation? What is the sheet attached to that is around her neck? What is that in front of her and what is on it? Looks like a painting. If so, was she a model and that is why she is naked?
I think that it is a photo with a narrow depth of field, shot with a camera with a tilt and shift lens. Regardless, it is from 1949, a few years before the comic code was enforced. And as we know, that covered the whole pulp industry.