Kane, Harry - Lie Like A Lady - 1955 (Ace S-108) - Sexy Dame! Popular Library

Kane, Harry - Lie Like A Lady - 1955 (Ace S-108) - Sexy Dame! Popular LibraryBOARD: 20 1 2 x 29 1 2IMAGE: 19 1 2 x 28 1 2Gouache on 1 8" Illustration Board. This is the original painting published as the cover to the vintage paperback novel Lie Like A Lady by C. S. Cody in 1955. When I made the decision to add this painting to my collection, it was with the understanding that the artist was unidentified. But a twinge of familiarity in the faces of the two figures, and especially in how the man's face is drawn, had me thinking

as he plays daddy in what appears to be a very idyllic 1950's America of his own making

This was published as the cover to the 1958 novel

which was a tie-in to the now famous and long running television soap opera

This is the 5th of 8 pages depicting this now classic moment

you'll love it even more in person because the vibrancy of the colors was not captured by the scan

and the Prescot bio-agent half buried in the ground from the Suicide Squad arc

while a mysterious stranger is seen snapping pictures of the two friends

her words are not all

you'd never guess so check it out for yourselves

Perkins has not only illustrated this page in his own inimitable style

Known more today as the mother of Mariska Hargitay (Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU)

seeming to make Lois feel unsettled