All right, tell me what the first impression you have of this cover. If you said anything other than "half naked woman with a really great butt" you are a LIAR. Because that's what this cover is all about, a half-naked woman with a really cute butt. Her butt is the focal center of the artwork, everything draws your eye to it, not just the fact that it's a great butt. Now you see the real brilliance of this particular bondage peril from the point of view of a cover artist -- it really brings the damsel in distress into the foreground. And if said damsel has a great butt, that's all to the good.
Another nice bit -- some great barefoot bondage in the lower left hand corner of the cover. Very AUTHENTIC bondage, nicely drawn feet. And how about that over-the-shoulder peek-a-boo look she's giving the viewer?
Of course there are a few other things on the cover besides those long lovely legs, that nice rack and that great butt. For example, we have leopard men, which I believe was a African cult, being attacked by tigers, which are of course not found in Africa. This is because I believe the artist was a subscriber to the "circus" theory of zoology, very popular among comic book artists, which advocated that any animal which can be found in any zoo, can also be found in any jungle. We're lucky they didn't include polar bears.
This cover is from the June 1947 issue of Fight Comics. The previous one was from October 1947. So I'm thinking that when they were planning the October issue, the publisher said, "Which issue had the biggest sales?" And the answer was "June." And the publisher said, "OK, for October let's have a cover just like the June cover, only different." And so it was.
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