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Okay, not a Nazi, but who cares?

The Nazi femme fatale is my favorite cover trope! [Sadly, nothing newly acquired, but here are some of those posted earlier - some still with me, some long gone]. It's a very long time since I spotted an unknown one.

Well, at least in your case they found the right continent!

..and this one has great reproductions, and lots of them!

..and here are a few more books - monographs on Mort Kunstler and Samson Pollen.

I just checked to make sure I still had my copy - and I do [phew]!

Guess who...

..and just for fun, here's some Saunders OA, none of it mine, sadly!

Saunders would pose for many of his own paintings. So all those Nazis in uniform? All him! Here he is posing with model Ellene Politis, also his wife.

Further back in the thread someone mentioned Norman Saunders. There is a great book on him published by Illustrated Press - now OOP but copies can still be had.

..and when I landed a previous of this 'un, Rich contacted me to say that he needed it to complete his run, so I let him take it from me in trade. Took me many years to replace, which suggests that it's unusually scarce.

I never responded to this but meant to. Back in the day I found myself in some bidding wars with Rich Oldberg - and ended up with a copy of this without the date stamp, both from the Ohio warehouse find. The seller had listed two hi grade copies, and I had won the one shown here. But the seller got his wires crossed, and I got Rich's without the stamp and he got mine. To me, the stamp meant nothing, but Rich was absolutely gutted. So we agreed to trade, which was only fair. In our back and forth, he told me that he had multiple high grade copies of all the Man's Story, Men Today, Man's Epic etc etc, and whenever hi grade copies turned up he would bid strongly on them, regardless of how many copies he already had. He alone could perhaps account for the apparent scarcity!

To be honest, that didn't take much working out!