![A KNIFE IN THE ART](/images/headline/6650.png) For a fulfilling killing nothing beats a blade. ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_01.jpg)
Today we have for your pleasure a collection of vintage paperback covers featuring characters on both the giving and receiving ends of knives—or knifelike tools such as icepicks. Above you see Harry Bennett art of a poor fella getting a knife from nowhere. Maybe Damocles did it. It's a funny cover because we don't think we'd grab our throats if we got stabbed in the spine, but let's hope we never find out. Below, in addition to numerous U.S. and British offerings, you'll see covers from France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. There are many, many paperback fronts featuring knives—we mean hundreds—but we decided to stop ourselves at thirty-two today. These do not represent the best (as if we could decide something like that), or our favorites, but merely some interesting ones we've come across of late. If you're super interested in this particular motif we have plenty more examples in the archives. They'd be hard to find, because we don't keyword for knives, so here are some links to get you there: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_26.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_27.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_28.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_29.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_30.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_31.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/a_knife_in_the_art_32.jpg)
![HANGING BY A THREAD](/images/headline/4931.png) This bikini is about as plein as they come. ![](/images/postimg/hanging_by_a_thread.jpg)
The word “plein” means “full” in French, and indeed when looking at this cover the female figure's bikini is not only nicely full, but looks like it's strained to the point of breaking. Plein son bikini was written by Jean Normand, aka Raoul Lematte, Fernand Petit, Jacques Lienart, et al, and it appeared in 1954 from Éditions Roger Seban for its Pigall collection. Really, we're just interested in the art here, which is by the always adept Jef de Wulf. We have numerous entries on him, including this winner. Click his keywords below if you want to see more.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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