text image - Fortune Magazine Front and Back Covers
  Montage for front cover August 1939
front cover
  Montage for back cover August 1939
back cover
August 1939, 1991     12½ x 15½ x 1 inches. - $350.00
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Hans Barschel illustrated the front cover (see original) which looks to me like the windmill on Auntie Em's Kansas farm Dorothy abruftly departed from for a journey to Oz. I added a photo of Ann Rutherford, a Hollywood starlet. The popular ten cents a copy movie magazines rain down from the Kansas storm. On the back I collaged a story about Nicholas M. Schenck, CEO of MGM at that time, who was making the outlandish salary of $2500. a week that year, on top of the $220,000. he made from a profit-sharing contract.

 
Magazine front cover - August 1939
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