![]() It is the first work I can think of that actually provides the inside story of one of the women who worked in the pulp fiction industry, told by the woman herself. This is what makes Eva: men’s adventure supermodel a vital book. We know virtually nothing about the women who were the cover model subjects for these covers. Publishers hoped that this would generate interest from the passing buyer, who they believed was usually male and, looking at the cover, would start to fill in the mental blanks and purchase said print material to read and discover for themselves if they were right (how disappointed they often must have been). And the central design aspect of the majority of this material was a woman, usually provocatively posed and scantily clad, depicted ‘in media res’, Latin for ‘in the middle of’ things. It was designed to impart a gamut of sensations, from the simply outré and thrilling, to downright lurid and shocking. So much of the allure of pulp fiction, whether it was in magazine or paperback format, revolved around the cover art.
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