The R.A. Maguire Cover Art gallery features lots of lovely paperback covers from the 50s and 60s, mostly in tawdry genres like crime, detective, exploitation and even science-fiction. The site also has a gallery of photos the artist took for reference to draw the covers.
The overwrought blurbs on these books are sometimes hilarious:
Perfume and Pain – She knew no desire but that for another woman.
TV Tramps – On camera they violated the Code of Decency; Off camera they violated each other.
House of Fury – A Slashing Story of Girls Behind Bars.
The Fires Within – SUBURBIA, U.S.A.; The story of a wife who loved too much… and too many
Hell’s Angels – Her life was a paradise of sex and drugs, but she died one hell of a death
But the best one has got Muscle Boy – They Got Their Kicks From Forbidden Feats of Strength
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So that’s why Jack gets all the action! It’s the superstrength. Chick love the superstrength. Nothing like a man fixing the San Andreas fault with his bare hands to get them comfortable.
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What, Winston can’t fix the San Andreas fault? Fix it and do to it pleasantness in the back I bet he can.
I think Winston has less time for the chicks because he has such a refined sensuality that mundane comforting feels to him like trying to have conversations through SMS. Very low bandwidth.
Or maybe it’s that self-sufficiency thing he’s so focused on.
Now that I think of it, the only time Winston’s done any comforting in this campaign was when he pollinated the ship.