I love and collect old pulp novels by Harry Whittington and, in my search for them, I stumbled onto this marvelous site full of hilariously lurid lesbian paperback covers from the 50s and 60s. Here’s just a sampling from the hundreds of vintage book covers (click on the images for a larger picture):
Which of these is not like the others?
Because she favored women for love, each arrow she shot at her male assistant seemed to be aimed closer to castrate him
I think there’s a sociology dissertation in there somewhere.
I always knew Dick Van Dyke was a lesbian. I mean, come on, look at his name!
What’s that, a Freudian slip? The one genre that Lee Goldberg secretly yearns to try his hand at. Or perhaps this is a new kind of DM fanfic?
Sheesh, Dyke Van Dyke is butch enough to pass for her brother Dick.
Subliminal messages, Lee?
~Chikory