Cover of The Pink Panther And The Inspector #15 (Published Oct 1973 by Gold Key) references The Betrothal Of Two Classic Edifices (1943) by James Gleeson?

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The Pink Panther and the Inspector #15 (Published by Gold Key 1st October 1973)

a) cover of The Pink Panther And The Inspector #15 (Published Oct 1973 by Gold Key)

b) The Betrothal Of Two Classic Edifices  (1943) by James Gleeson

c) The two images together with the title cropped in the Pink Panther comic book cover

d) The gold fabric pouring out of the hole in the circular structure becomes the lemonade pouring out of the jug, with the circular structure becoming the jug

e) The nasal cavity of the skull becomes the triangular division at the bottom of the front of the Inspector's overcoat. 

One could look at the possibility that the light on the upper leg reaching to the knee becomes the inspector's chin.

f) Very generally the head of the bald man becomes the head of the Pink Panther while the curved wall around the man's head becomes the Pink Panther's cap. 

Perhaps the gold fabric her becomes the tail