Luck and Death

2012/12/08

Barb Wire and her enemy Ace of Spades in the Dark Horse comic series.

The Card Sharp on the Boulevard (1806) by the. French painter Louis-Léopold Boilly:

Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman in The Avengers, Season 3, Episode 15, The White Elephant.

A Pin Up with lucky cards by the famous artist Alberto Vargas, published in esquire in 1941.

The German JG53 used the Ace of Spades on their Messerschmitts in the Second World War.

Cover of the album We're-Unstoppable (2005) by the Philadelphia hardcore band Blacklisted.

A retro pulp cover. Tough guy is risking all, Lady Luck is waiting.

Backgammon in a Tavern by the Dutch genre Golden Age painter Jan Steen.

Brigitte Bardot gambling in "Shalako" a 1968 British western film directed by Edward Dmytryk.

Top of the Heap by A.A. Fair a georgeous cover by Robert McGinnis.