Bill Wenzel is one of my favorite cartoonist because of his great good girl art. He was a master at depicting the voluptuous, sexy but still innocent girl. He was so prolific that even I own a few of his original Humorama cartoons. Anyway, I have put a few representative cartoons on this page. They come from the book The Pin-Up Art of Bill Wenzel by Alex Chun & Jacob Covey published in 2005 by Fantagraphics Books.

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	Checker Books was an unusual little run of 12 books from 1949. There was a cookbook, a cartoon book, some mildly sleazy books including one by Hank Janson with a Reginald Heade cover. Bill Wenzel did two of the covers and this is the second one.
	Bill Wenzel did a few other paperback covers, but not many. Here is a cover he did for the Candid Love Novels line. This is a run of seven (known) books for which he did all the covers. There's another one below.
	Plus another six known covers for Prize Love Novels. Both Candid and Prize Love Novels were published by the same publisher - Crestwood Publishing Co.

Here's some more of his work:

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