More Cover Art

I suspect hand-colouring went into the cover of this copy of Span — number 64, no date inside given. They’ve gone to town here by incorporating a comical little cartoon character puckering his lips and brandishing a sprig of mistletoe. What is curious is the character is an old boy with grey hair and winged collar, not some handsome young prince. Dirty old man come to light? I suppose it’s a bit like those old seaside postcards featuring drunken old tramps pulling gorgeous pneumatic dolls. As if. The strange thing about ToCo is they were very conservative. While they embarrasingly tried to present themselves as “with it” during the late swinging Sixties, when they began becoming a bit of an anachronism, they couldn’t resist getting the hump over “women’s libbers”. You couldn’t help get the feeling Spick and Span weren’t pitched at young blokes but the elderly oversized mac brigade.