Cover Girl

Cover Girl, manufactured by J. H. Keeney and Company Incorporated of Chicago in December 1947, is a notable example of early flipper-era electro-mechanical pinball design. It holds a genuine distinction: Cover Girl was the first flipper game made by Keeney, arriving barely a year after Gottlieb's 'Humpty Dumpty' introduced flippers to the industry, as manufacturers everywhere raced to adopt the new mechanism.

The game gives players five balls per play and boasts seven flippers, an impressive number typical of the earliest flipper games, which scattered flippers across the playfield before the familiar two-at-the-bottom layout became standard. Ten passive bumpers and three kick-out holes round out the playfield, adding variety and challenge.

According to Billboard (January 10, 1948), Cover Girl was offered simultaneously in two versions: a rolldown version with a console cabinet, and a standard cabinet version with a ball shooter. The game should not be confused with Gottlieb's 1945 machine of the same name.