We already saw Lily Renée's final two tales on Jane Martin in the previous two installments. Looking back from the Now, i see echoes of the coming future in some of her later tales. It's easy to see how shots like the opening panel below, with the woven bamboo head wear, might lead an editor to see how she'd draw a sombrero. And the second and third tale here, which were the last before the two mentioned above, feature fashions that might easily have shown up in Lily's Señorita Rio.
The dresses lead me to ponder whether Lily knew what she'd be working on soon and had such things in her mind, or whether an editor looking at them might have been influenced to choose her for Señorita Rio.
Of course, it's just as likely merest happenstance.
Either way, we should visit the Señorita soon.
But... did we run that one with Jane Martin vs. the walking dead?
page art by Lily Renée for Wings Comics #s 41, 45, & 46 (1944)
