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Old 17 August 2008, 08:49 PM   #108 (permalink)
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Cavalier Magazine

In the late 1950's and early '60's, another example of the genre of "men's adventure magazines" was Cavalier. Interspersed with racy pin-up photos of leading starlets and models of the day, political commentary, wild west adventures and horror fiction, there was also a series of articles about famous WWI aces by the likes of William E. Barrett (a long time pulp writer). The best aspect of these articles was the color art, often by Phil Ronfor, Harry Schaare or even J.D. Carrick. Unfortunately, when the art was featured on the cover it was usually splashed with blurbs for the article and other pieces, as well as partially covered with pin-up cheescake shots or other junk. Anyway, here's the March 1961 issue, which featured art of Goettler and Bleckley's DH 4 of the 50th Aero Squadron in search of the Lost Batallion (by Phil Ronfor). He got the 'Dutch Girl" insignia right, even if the camouflage on the DH4 is a bit goofy:



For the rest of this post, I've scanned only the art and left out the rest of the covers. Here's J.D. Carrick's version of Immelmann's demise:



Carrick's first (?) version of the fateful events of 21 April 1918:



Ronfor's depiction of Goering's white Fokker shooting up a Nieuport 28 (which never happened - he never scored in the white D.VII):
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