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Ogden Whitney Undercover Girl 5 page 17

Artist: Ogden Whitney (All)

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Title:	Ogden Whitney Undercover Girl 5 page 17
Artist:	Ogden Whitney (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,599
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	7
Added to Site:	2/25/2016
Comic Art Archive:	Undercover Girl Issue: 5 [A-1 #62] Page: 17 View

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Always looking for more of these!! Love Whitney's Undercover Girl.

This is another page from Undercover Girl 5 with typical action and intrigue in a post-war Europe. Here, Starr Flagg, Undercover Girl, has joined forces to investigate "The House" where Starr falls through a trap door. After fighting her way through a bodyguard (look at that swing (!)) she finds Jim and Pedro. They have been whipped and tortured and now she faces the ring-leader who has a drop on her. Bondage and torture in the same page.

This is page 17 from Undercover Girl 5, which collected a variety of published stories into one book. I believe this page was first printed as page 5 of the 6 page story, The House that Hate Built, first published in Manhunt #8 (May 1948).

Great Whitney art... and if you look closely you'll see evidence of 1950's censorship where Starr's low-cut neckline has been whited out and re-inked to be more modest.

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CHRIS OLIVERIA
Member Since 2011

Posted on 2/25/2016

Whitney is definitely an underappreciated artist......great page!

Dewey Cassell
Member Since 2004

Posted on 2/25/2016

This is a fantastic page. Not only the action, but the style and composition. A real treasure. Congratulations!

Steve Kro
Member Since 2007

Posted on 2/25/2016

Girl power! I really like this. Unique piece. Thanks for posting.

frank x townsondecker
Member Since 2006

Posted on 2/25/2016

NICE!

steve roden
Member Since 2011

Posted on 2/25/2016

so so great... !!!!!!!!!

Jeff Singh
Member Since 2004

Posted on 2/26/2016

Very fun page. I am a big UCG Whitney fan already. It is funny how the neckline is what they censored here as opposed to the whip marks and torture. It seems to me the same selective bias in censorship still exists. Certain panels here felt very Kurtzman influenced.

Wallace Harrington
Member Since 2004

Posted on 2/26/2016

Jeff Singh wrote:

This speaks to what is "important" or "provocative" in the 1948. It is OK to show torture and whip marks, but not a low neckline. I have always though it was weird that movies with violence and explosions that kill people gets a PG-13 rating but one minute of a couple making love or a naked breast or buttock receives an R or M on TV. So, showing affection to someone is obviously more dangerous than trying to kill them. Sort of odd. But wait... it's the same today!

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