Charlene White
Buffalo: After Hours Book Inc., 1966.

After Hours pulp AH 145. Cover art by Eric Stanton with a further illustrated advertisement leaf for Adventure Serials by Stanton at rear. One in the series of colour covers by Stanton for the First Niter and then After Hours series published by Stanley Malkin in the 1960s when Malkin set Stanton up in a small apartment on the proviso of turning out four covers a month (which Stanton could do in a week). The covers often featured lesbian themes or were female-centric, reversing gender roles and casting women as the physical aggressors and men as compliant and fragile. Many of the covers are considered some of Stanton’s best colour work. This cover featuring a subtle goof by Stanton on Steve Ditko’s Spiderwoman. The pseudonym of Charlene White sometimes credited to prolific low-budget filmmaker and pulp novelist Ed Wood, however this is disputed. Unrecorded in OCLC.