Matt Baker Romance Comics

Matt Baker (December 10, 1921 – August 11, 1959) was an American comic book artist who drew the costumed crimefighter Phantom Lady, among many other characters. Active in the 1940s and 1950s Golden Age of comic books, he is the first known African-American artist to find success in the comic-book industry. He also penciled the very first graphic novel, St. John Publications' digest-sized "picture novel" It Rhymes with Lust (1950). Baker was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009. (from Wikipedia)

Here's some romance comics with cover art by Baker.

Teenage Temptations #1, October 1952.

True Love Pictorial #6, October 1953.

Wartime Romances #17, September 1953.

Teen-Age Romances #2, April 1949.

Teen-Age Romances #3, July 1949.

Teen-Age Romances #42, March 1955.

Giant Comics Editions #15, 1950.

P is for Pinup

Unknown photo.

Sunbather by Al Beull.

Miss Nassau by Pearl Frush, 1947.

Tomorrow is Murder by Ron Lesser.

Two of Clubs by Vargas.


Making Friends by Gil Elvgren, 1951.


Posing on the Fence by Earl Moran, n.d.


Hanging Around by Arnold Kohn, n.d.


Brown and Bigelow Calendar illustration, by Ernest Chiriacka, circa 1953.


Esquire Calendar Illustration by Al Moore, October 1951.


Pinup in Black Gloves by Fritz Willis, n.d.


Cat Lady by Chris Achilleos, 1998.


Princess Leia by Enrique Torres, n.d.

Phantom Lady #17, April 1948. Cover art by Matt Baker.

Sheena 3-D Special #1, 1985. Cover art by Dave Stevens.

Vampirella #78, May, 1979.

...and a few shots of Bettie Page, courtesy of Bettie Page is All the Rage!

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Robin Hood

Here's some images of the legendary English outlaw.




Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938.






Two illustrations from the N.C. Wyeth illustrated edition of Robin Hood, 1917.




Window card for the Douglas Fairbanks movie, 1922.




Robin Hood Tales #1, February 1956. Cover art by Matt Baker.




The Brave and the Bold #5, April 1956. Cover art by Irv Novick.

Bad Girls of the Wild West

Western Bandit Trails #1, January 1949. Cover art by Matt Baker.




Western Bandit Trails #2, April 1949. Cover art by Matt Baker.




Western Bandit Trails #3, 1949. Cover art by Matt Baker.

Some Cheesecake

Vooda, Jungle Princess by Matt Baker.



The Black Canary, by Bill Black.



WWII Gal, by Rudy Palais.



Hannah Dundee, by Mark Schultz.