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92 The Gallery – Jordi Penalva ABOVE: Covers by the Catalan painterJordi Penalva for Fleetway Super Library , Front Line Series . Pictured here in clockwise order from the top left, issues 1, 13, 3 and 11, which were all published in 1967. FACING PAGE: Penalva’s cover for Front Line issue 6, his gritty, pulp-styled artwork was executed primarily in oils on roughly gessoed canvas, adding to the rough hewn immediacy of his he-man imagery. All images © IPC Media All images © IPC Media