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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Paperback 242: Kid Galahad / Francis Wallace (Bantam 133)

Paperback 242: Bantam 133 (1st ptg, 1947)

Title: Kid Galahad
Author: Francis Wallace
Cover artist: Charles Andres

Yours for: $17

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Best things about this cover:
  • Unlike most Good and Bad Angels, Kid Galahad's Good and Bad Angels chose to reside in his armpits, not on his shoulders.
  • Love how heads are crammed into every crevice of the painting. My favorite is the sweaty, neck-wiping Tintin lookalike (under the Kid's right glove, which appears to have been fashioned from the remains of an old football).
  • This Kid has apparently been waxed within an inch of his life. "Behold my glistening torso!"
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Best things about this back cover:

  • LOVE the numbers of the ref's count on the ropes. Dramatic.
  • Check out how lame the cover of the Little, Brown edition was!
  • Jeez, first line of copy makes this novel sound like a slasher film. Or a tale of surgery.

Page 123~

She looked at him coldly. "Don't flatter yourself. I don't care whether you burn or freeze."


~RP