Bim, BEM, Bum
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[edit]![Comic book cover showing a man in a spacesuit shooting a monster, as the monster grabs a woman in a spacesuit with its tentacles](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Planet_Comics_42.jpg/220px-Planet_Comics_42.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Clipping of bimbo + BEM (“Bug-Eyed Monster”) + bum (“incompetent man”). From a typical composition for the cover art of science fiction pulp magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, notably by artists such as Earle K. Bergey and Rudolph Belarski, featuring a woman (the "Bim") being attacked or threatened by a monster (the "BEM"), while a man (the "Bum") protects her and/or attacks the monster.
Phrase
[edit]- (fandom slang, art) Retro art composition; composition stereotypical of the cover art of mid-20th-century science fiction pulp magazines.