Darwination

Here is the deluxe version book that I purchased from the UK in 2018.  Beautiful color reproductions can be found throughout the marvelous book with 316 wonderful pages.  Now that I am an older collector, I tend to splurge on the nicer editions. 

You gotta "Mannup" to win high grade Rainbows up in here 
 

Couple all stories and a cavalier I picked up today.

I bet Weird Menace sees lots of grading.  It's a cover-centric area, lots of comics fans already dabble (natural crossover with PCH - you sickos :P), and it "might" be an area where some assurances are warranted about condition as far as throwing down big chunks of cash.

I think I bid on this a week or two back, not enough, apparently

Love that one, haven't seen it before.  Looks like there's a few years straight of painted covers after the first few photo covers.
I've been trying to get my hands on the first issue for a scan, as it played an important role in precedent re: obscenity on the newsstands:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/333/507/

 
I don't own this issue but did restore the cover from a digital image, Allen Anderson (prolific pulp painter but mebbe most famous for a couple of his Planets, did some nice comics covers for Ziff-Davis, too):
 

Probably a formula to Swamp Fiction! Say, 1 gator attack every 22 pages....Or something like that.

Red Head Alert         Rainbows are desirable as it is but this waaaay red Howell Dodd wench makes it extra inviting...

Please sir, I'd like another   That's gotta be a Driben

When you get tired of your Mountain Woman, you go get you a River Woman    Uni-love 
 

 

Here's a cool Uni-corn.  Mountain sleaze digest with a pretty Saul Levine cover. It's even got a "Tennessee mapback"  
She fled Greenwich Village for this dude's shack


 
 
 

"Classic Hungry Devil Cover"   One Million Dollars!
 

 
 

Really like these Paperback/pocketbook size pulps
Better pic with reg size pulp
 
 
 
 

Last one, anyone have this Joker digest?

A unique cover amongst the girlie pulps

That one's a curiosity, dicky.  It's a great painting, but there's some things that are really odd about it. One thing that stands out immediately is the weird red shadow or blanket under the girl with the flowers that just pop up on top of it. 
There's a couple at the very end of the Breezy run that were possibly created from leftover prints and materials on hand when the building that C.H. Young (the original publisher of Breezy and before that Young's Magazine who died back in 1930) had bought was being sold in 1949 for a real estate cash-in by Phil Painter who had run the company since Young's death (and ably kept Breezy afloat by converting it to a magazine sold in grocery stores with a reduced price point and more modern printing methods).  From some point in like '38 on all the Breezy covers are reprints (and most of the fiction as well), some paintings being used 2 or 3 times (you can tell by all the white boxes on the covers). 
On this one if you get up real close, you can see some funky production details - it's not a cohesive painting, there's some exacto work involved:


I don't own this issue, but the contents page calls it "a new Bolles girl" and gives a sort of shout out to Bolles, the first time I think this had happened in a Breezy, very strange.  Notably the magazine folded very shortly thereafter, too.

The reason for Bolles departure from Breezy was his institutionalization at Greystone Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey.  He did do some work from there (new Film Funs appeared into the early 40s) but the magazines were likely using any stock of paintings they had on hand as well, and there's likelihood that the art editor at Breezy could have played a part in placing the flowers around the figure.  It is possible that Painter had some sort of ongoing relationship with Enoch during his institutionalization (which lasted all the way to 1969) and that this was indeed a new Bolles girl (even if the painting had been altered for the magazine cover).
The other odd painting from earlier that year is this one which I think is the only other Breezy after 38 that isn't a reprint:

Here's a assortment of digests

Wow, I can see what your talking about on the close-up pictures you sent, never noticed this before.  Very Interesting.... Love this post!!!

That's a cool Ace logo on the second mag "Every One An Ace - an MP Magazine." The MP is for Magazine Publishers.  I'm not sure that logo ran very long or on what magazines, as this is the first time I've seen it.  Looks like Headquarters Detective ran for six issues and continued numbering from Sky Birds.  No relation to the Headquarters Detective true crime mag that Macfadden published starting in 1940/