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Teen-Age Gangs

Teen-Age Gangs was created by Rafael Desoto as cover art for a 1954 Popular Library Paperback Book written by Dale Kramer and Madeline Karr. A gritty defining example which shows a bleak sensationalized, youth gone wild culture, which was to captured the moral panic over juvenile delinquency that was a focal point of American culture […]

Teen-Age Gangs

Artist: Rafael Desoto

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Gang, Golden Age, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, subversive, Teen-Age Gangs, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 4, 2017

 

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