Hidden Findings discovered in Backspacer Cover (Updated)

Valerio wrote:

And this is the robot from the bottom-left image:

Poncier wrote:

How do Gilligan, the robot from Lost in Space and The Penguin fit in with a suicide theme?

NoelMichael wrote:

Is Jessica Rabbit on the left?

TEEJAM11 wrote:

craze finds people good Job.... :idea:

pleatherman wrote:

Now, I am intrigued as to the backstories on the other eight illustrations. Looks like the treasure hunt has just begun.



From Life Magazine:



From Andy Warhol:
http://www2.khm.de/audiolectures/audiol ... 17tif.html

http://kottke.org/08/07/the-most-beautiful-suicide
The most beautiful suicide
On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death.
The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:

On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure.

From McHale's NY Times obituary, Empire State Ends Life of Girl, 20:

At 10:40 A. M., Patrolman John Morrissey of Traffic C, directing traffic at Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, noticed a swirling white scarf floating down from the upper floors of the Empire State. A moment later he heard a crash that sounded like an explosion. He saw a crowd converge in Thirty-third Street.

Two hundred feet west of Fifth Avenue, Miss McHale's body landed atop the car. The impact stove in the metal roof and shattered the car's windows. The driver was in a near-by drug store, thereby escaping death or serious injury.

On the observation deck, Detective Frank Murray of the West Thirtieth Street station, found Miss McHale's gray cloth coat, her pocketbook with several dollars and the note, and a make-up kit filled with family pictures.

The serenity of McHale's body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding. Years later, Andy Warhol appropriated Wiles' photography for a print called Suicide (Fallen Body).

kiljoythemerciful wrote:

NoelMichael wrote:

Is Jessica Rabbit on the left?

Good guess, but I don't think so. Rabbit usually is depicted with a clubby dress on and red high heals.

Poncier wrote:

Is the first pic derived from the train scene from Stand By Me with a young, husky Jerry O'Connell?