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And they're SFW!Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.comBlogger673125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-72248717108369965542024-03-13T07:00:00.080-04:002024-03-13T11:28:47.906-04:00NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Part 2<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2024/03/noughts-and-crosses-part-1.html" target="_blank"><b>Childhood friends <i>Sephy</i> and <i>Callum</i> are now high schoolers...</b></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZdh2gUt55_lVr6ZWeTRdp0MIDqPvTDEqJIU--pmYVrrjtPL-lG5eGwcxSwGkFB8NxkqMZIqM-hUoT2Kfc8R32cIUVCADJEh4jSLMud3_eMN5Q0E1NZRax9nWup5BT-wIuJhQjdRgjbtWegvo32jJ2O4KmC1U9CK0ZUcp9nCYBf0guyyIBMwEt7DYgu18" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZdh2gUt55_lVr6ZWeTRdp0MIDqPvTDEqJIU--pmYVrrjtPL-lG5eGwcxSwGkFB8NxkqMZIqM-hUoT2Kfc8R32cIUVCADJEh4jSLMud3_eMN5Q0E1NZRax9nWup5BT-wIuJhQjdRgjbtWegvo32jJ2O4KmC1U9CK0ZUcp9nCYBf0guyyIBMwEt7DYgu18=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">...and, as their feelings towards each other intensify, they discover that their family and friends are <i>not </i>(to say the least) happy about it...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Next Week:</i></span></b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div><div style="text-align: center;">You thought <i>your</i> high school days were hell?<br />Callum and Sephy are experiencing that...<i>times ten!</i></div></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">As Always, We Guarantee That...</span></b></div></b></span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></b></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And now a word from our sponsor...</span></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b>Please Support True Love Comics Tales</b></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Visit </b></span></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Amazon</b></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>and Buy...</b></span></span></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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"For the Love of Mike"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Our final "Laugh at Love" entry was created for one of the many </span><b>MAD</b><span> comic book clones of the 1950s!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU5xthag6pospugeNePkhcOIFG6XWClG3SLr4rlqeBgNfXeuhd4qdcF9Fet9KI5syMOj82M_Cy0Hn4Z-47F2JVkRshDy8XJoR8kitBzKOUBK4-6kLjv-zVCT7AzVVtKixpT5Wk0CjC7NUQJqMKw5hTFS84ujxtY7vYu9vlxQn98K7y5E1K5UppuHWCmrM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU5xthag6pospugeNePkhcOIFG6XWClG3SLr4rlqeBgNfXeuhd4qdcF9Fet9KI5syMOj82M_Cy0Hn4Z-47F2JVkRshDy8XJoR8kitBzKOUBK4-6kLjv-zVCT7AzVVtKixpT5Wk0CjC7NUQJqMKw5hTFS84ujxtY7vYu9vlxQn98K7y5E1K5UppuHWCmrM=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">But, it was illustrated by an artist who was noted for his <i>serious</i> romance comic stories!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYJ7VYFo4aPhHl-DAsl-Gu7gDdNeA9j76WN6XOuzqUn9nsXE9aaP31UkuXpyeXJH4TxY4sTqb2Q0xeyOprds3vEbZ62DuLbhHP5IMrRgQZEJCuWZGz2rtcJHdW97ASBuVKpD68Z1vnmCOmHEY92Z9NrQk_OmckneAWN9lWN-ZuhT-iconmpGaKBUiUDhc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYJ7VYFo4aPhHl-DAsl-Gu7gDdNeA9j76WN6XOuzqUn9nsXE9aaP31UkuXpyeXJH4TxY4sTqb2Q0xeyOprds3vEbZ62DuLbhHP5IMrRgQZEJCuWZGz2rtcJHdW97ASBuVKpD68Z1vnmCOmHEY92Z9NrQk_OmckneAWN9lWN-ZuhT-iconmpGaKBUiUDhc=s16000" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdNByN9U_Nhqp925MhY8oJZmt4gLbr7YOUPPgTnKou0Dye0JzZ24N5kjxneHwzjQdd_jSeemBLjO6NhOXuZQcVN5pUxUoEeNZo7htErBMT8vKoPUgwwpZaXvyYNssoXX5EdtnP0FVBnH-6zWsjY630YOH_yuv7JnWb3O3wNeibTsHLJpiWYQ2bb4-w6lw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdNByN9U_Nhqp925MhY8oJZmt4gLbr7YOUPPgTnKou0Dye0JzZ24N5kjxneHwzjQdd_jSeemBLjO6NhOXuZQcVN5pUxUoEeNZo7htErBMT8vKoPUgwwpZaXvyYNssoXX5EdtnP0FVBnH-6zWsjY630YOH_yuv7JnWb3O3wNeibTsHLJpiWYQ2bb4-w6lw=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Writer Nat Barnett <i>never</i> wrote a romance comic tale.</div><div style="text-align: left;">His two-dozen or so comic book scripts ranged from humor (including this story from <b><i>Harvey's</i> Flip!</b> #1 [1954]) to horror to war, but absolutely <i>no</i> love comics!<br />Artist <a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/search/label/Bob%20Powell" target="_blank">Bob Powell</a> was another matter, as anybody who has perused this blog can tell you!<br />Starting with "<a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2013/04/first-love-illustrated-i-joined-teen.html" target="_blank">I Joined a Teen-Age Sex Club!</a>" he's one of the biggest comic creatives featured here!<br />As a bonus for our finale of fun, here's the original art for this story, thanks to the ever-amazing Kraktactaka!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOIk7iNfXb8FXe-zUsQ4cJsQjjuU1i6hAfvMurKqF2FP4fXNU_tMpKskPZ1WjdvJ7J7DPjHIjJVGa4O8oavxX3X_1Qp9p2nwby2aPLrnTCS3SHOP-R6aOqeh3HLXTx5Vt3FfYgeLyc3lHLjE0lDaI2pnOluMJLassab1dkb05nZwgZEBVufPVKIlcZjAY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOIk7iNfXb8FXe-zUsQ4cJsQjjuU1i6hAfvMurKqF2FP4fXNU_tMpKskPZ1WjdvJ7J7DPjHIjJVGa4O8oavxX3X_1Qp9p2nwby2aPLrnTCS3SHOP-R6aOqeh3HLXTx5Vt3FfYgeLyc3lHLjE0lDaI2pnOluMJLassab1dkb05nZwgZEBVufPVKIlcZjAY=s16000" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">...as RE-writer Paul Di Fillipo does in this story...which is <i>not</i> originally by writer Jean Thomas, penciler Gene Colan, and inker Bill Everett as these credits list!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqnUSDCrlfM3D9k8cmMZ_NLTrZpXCEDJASl8GLC8Ba6Z5COf7vg04QztBUcCCv0iTs9Z5TgrhApMgl0tuGiuSB6yGmcNP5LNirhPmsLgfNJp0ZD583i6iZ8mxTUdB2DGvtUno4UPNld1KVy-jXLON70A4IdCUFoiFuVdFMeoSv123x4CqmVWjNxKyE1L0" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdIBCBi3ZOZC0fhT22KMg2Q2XxZbvhoHwws8KIcdpfd7rxARX3IrBbQdN9NouJDIBhIfKTJGUBMaGHhgeoQNLnPDZcipvvBfkCOUOYXniIVlsBAsxdinaLKwauyhQwWwKkBNRcJPXnn95yAjGnwtSmmtv5Vn83-xCkevCjwY0edhtkPpA4XTeiWLUxPoY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdIBCBi3ZOZC0fhT22KMg2Q2XxZbvhoHwws8KIcdpfd7rxARX3IrBbQdN9NouJDIBhIfKTJGUBMaGHhgeoQNLnPDZcipvvBfkCOUOYXniIVlsBAsxdinaLKwauyhQwWwKkBNRcJPXnn95yAjGnwtSmmtv5Vn83-xCkevCjwY0edhtkPpA4XTeiWLUxPoY=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">For the record, the art is by penciler Don Heck and inker John Romita Sr!</div><div style="text-align: center;">The writer is unknown, but suspected to be Stan Lee!<br /><div style="text-align: left;">I did a little research on-line at the <i><b><a href="https://www.comics.org/" target="_blank">Grand Comics Database</a></b></i> (an <i>amazing</i> resource) and discovered...<br />1) There are <i>a couple of dozen</i> romance comics tales spread over several different publishers titled "Jilted" or "Jilted!" (Note the exclamation point!)<br />2) <i>None</i> of the stories with that title had credits for Jean Thomas. Gene Colan, or Bill Everett!<br />3) The <b>Marvel Romance Redux</b> reworking's credits list John Romita as penciler and Jim Mooney as inker...with question marks, and states..."Art is credited to Gene Colan, pencils, and Bill Everett, inks, but this is clearly in error."<br />Sloppy reference work on <b>Marvel Romance Redux</b> by the editor and/or assistant editor, eh?</div></div></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Next Week:</i></span></b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Our Final Humorous Romance Story (for now) and We Guarantee That, Even Though It <i>Is</i> Funny...</span></b></div></span></b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></b></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And now a word from our sponsor...</span></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b>Please Support True Love Comics Tales</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Visit </b></span></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Amazon</b></span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> and Order...</b></span></i></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qqr7OyAbL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="547" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qqr7OyAbL.jpg" width="437" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2vYOLiJ" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Marvel Romance Redux</b></span></a></div></div></div></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-47284046641115767252024-02-14T07:00:00.019-05:002024-02-14T07:00:00.144-05:00Laugh at Love on Valentine's Day MARGIE COMICS "Elusive Valentine!"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's a never-reprinted Valentine's Day treat...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ooNdkkENXqw/WKHEuJBR90I/AAAAAAAAVTo/eASPuSW53pkduChTGYcwcjPjG11MXAhiwCPcB/s1600/Margie37_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ooNdkkENXqw/WKHEuJBR90I/AAAAAAAAVTo/eASPuSW53pkduChTGYcwcjPjG11MXAhiwCPcB/s1600/Margie37_02.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">...from almost 80 years ago years ago, featuring a teen humor character from the company that later became <i><b>Marvel Comics</b></i>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j6CiXtDmlJ4/WKHEuHUP92I/AAAAAAAAVTg/XeAliZqXoMU3VSgbNhWeBIYQox253BI_QCPcB/s1600/Margie37_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j6CiXtDmlJ4/WKHEuHUP92I/AAAAAAAAVTg/XeAliZqXoMU3VSgbNhWeBIYQox253BI_QCPcB/s1600/Margie37_03.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8jBECGlluZ0/WKHEuEbGHuI/AAAAAAAAVTo/xk7I1vB_LJAAc4Yuty15INwGaiTit7n1gCPcB/s1600/Margie37_04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8jBECGlluZ0/WKHEuEbGHuI/AAAAAAAAVTo/xk7I1vB_LJAAc4Yuty15INwGaiTit7n1gCPcB/s1600/Margie37_04.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLj9vlA1AaE/WKHEuF9fOyI/AAAAAAAAVTg/ktZ0z2n955M-dxQmAVADcCexDLXxtfaCACPcB/s1600/Margie37_05.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLj9vlA1AaE/WKHEuF9fOyI/AAAAAAAAVTg/ktZ0z2n955M-dxQmAVADcCexDLXxtfaCACPcB/s1600/Margie37_05.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyhPKLKzukE/WKHEuPtWovI/AAAAAAAAVTg/q-qVzhU0ua0JXzj8QHnDcKJqRmULrHS5QCPcB/s1600/Margie37_06.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyhPKLKzukE/WKHEuPtWovI/AAAAAAAAVTg/q-qVzhU0ua0JXzj8QHnDcKJqRmULrHS5QCPcB/s1600/Margie37_06.jpg" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Until the mid 1970s when <i><b>Archie Comics</b></i> became the sole "teen humor" publisher, <i>every</i> company had several titles with wacky teenage protagonists.<br /><b><i>Margie</i></b>, created/written/illustrated by Morris Weiss was typical of the genre...<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Irresponsible, impulsive teen (of either gender)!</li><li>Usually-clueless object of affection!</li><li>Constantly-irritated parents!</li><li>An annoying younger sibling (usually of the opposite gender to the protagonist)!</li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Various eccentric friends!</span></li></ul></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Initially a backup strip that floated to whatever humor comic needed a 5-6 page filler, she finally got her own title by taking over <i><b>Timely's</b></i> <b>Comedy Comics</b> in 1946 as of #35 and holding on to it until #50 in 1950, when the book became <b>Reno Browne: Hollywood's Greatest Cowgirl</b>.<br /><b><i>Margie</i></b> went back to being a floating backup strip for another year before disappearing completely, never to be seen again!<br />This particular tale (one of the few comic tales I could find with "Valentine's Day" in the title that <i>didn't</i> deal with <a href="http://crimeandpunishmentcomics.blogspot.com/2013/02/headline-comics-to-my-valentine.html" target="_blank">the famous gang-war massacre</a>!) is from <b><i>Timely's</i></b> <b>Margie Comics</b> #37 (1946).</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Happy Valentine's Day!</b></span></span></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-10681630987370097962024-02-07T07:00:00.158-05:002024-02-07T13:31:20.776-05:00Laugh at Love TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE "What Are You Saying?!" & YOUNG ROMANCE "Heartbreak"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yep, we're taking a humorous look at romance during the month of Valentine's Day!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7TSGqWBaNlwKypWb0mnyJdrOJ8XNY75NXN-A9oHRaMvj0kNee9GF_FnvmfodVEqJdkBizDnVtBiI0Q5z06ZcogNxSphXPo_Ift5EZZLqoEdtIFEQ1bgu1Azw6awRTWW_6bCr914Q9SFK84fvr07chbIL-_ukmSqseO3yvmw3vJZ74skjje95Sv_3Ms0Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7TSGqWBaNlwKypWb0mnyJdrOJ8XNY75NXN-A9oHRaMvj0kNee9GF_FnvmfodVEqJdkBizDnVtBiI0Q5z06ZcogNxSphXPo_Ift5EZZLqoEdtIFEQ1bgu1Azw6awRTWW_6bCr914Q9SFK84fvr07chbIL-_ukmSqseO3yvmw3vJZ74skjje95Sv_3Ms0Q=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Now that you've seen how this story was reconceived for the cynical 2000s in <i><b>Watson-Guptill's</b></i> <b>Truer Than True Romance </b>(2001), let's see what the unknown original writer of this Jack Sparling-penciled and Vince Colletta-inked tale from <b><i>DC's</i> Young Romance</b> #161 (1969) had in mind...</div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></b></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And now a word from our sponsor...</span></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b>Please Support True Love Comics Tales</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Visit </b></span></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Amazon</b></span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> and Order...</b></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51PTZXZ759L.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="361" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51PTZXZ759L.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2g53LGf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Truer Than True Romance</b></span></a></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-8991559017354422192024-01-30T07:00:00.060-05:002024-01-31T00:06:29.391-05:00John Buscema Tales "Prescription for Happiness" & "S.O.S. for Love"<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqQyQP6Z6M-m5pEJdNOnbIoGMm8eJ9NIog3ULtRY0rBJHnYmcWPPp9bbwPysy0bSbPcKzYdRI06kwSP3cK6D4We3cJ-P525eek4Yu71PoxT9VdxGBUh0g_X1ww0xxbpcL6vYHPWqzwEXFulRvi4cLSg12LW2QU-bHuhUVjYkydPskoWaGvXOwhc6GvnLE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqQyQP6Z6M-m5pEJdNOnbIoGMm8eJ9NIog3ULtRY0rBJHnYmcWPPp9bbwPysy0bSbPcKzYdRI06kwSP3cK6D4We3cJ-P525eek4Yu71PoxT9VdxGBUh0g_X1ww0xxbpcL6vYHPWqzwEXFulRvi4cLSg12LW2QU-bHuhUVjYkydPskoWaGvXOwhc6GvnLE=s16000" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Though most of John Busecema's romance comics stories were one-shots...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjL7DwD8Hq4tEetNOkGSUNoPVSEajT2PkzrE5bPC3zvlUB0PKl0o_IepXklfYSYwNOYt03HEZP-uN8dSvlhIzC_EVijRwgNzTtgaQJE_70k7uOSa3jkkdOE0ZiUNaphXGC4FOQDrG260k91CtCy9Z7RUpdOmguxUI0sN8Bkkztavql0dXLR3ORE3trkH8c" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIAIWXzNsOYcvGL-ml3aXfNV9QR2usC8yucuYBj_b0VstSgl4U20QVcWuZEonUrdE-dXyyHX2P63ZfCY0tkRGw3rNUDBr0W3rx2Ljl0BTrO6gvjzb-FFjCNTOkoeBNkxNPRWAFOhK_txUhPjsbeMre8LjdOO6UzZ5y--dqoyKx-fPH7uLdOkA1EJTNivM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIAIWXzNsOYcvGL-ml3aXfNV9QR2usC8yucuYBj_b0VstSgl4U20QVcWuZEonUrdE-dXyyHX2P63ZfCY0tkRGw3rNUDBr0W3rx2Ljl0BTrO6gvjzb-FFjCNTOkoeBNkxNPRWAFOhK_txUhPjsbeMre8LjdOO6UzZ5y--dqoyKx-fPH7uLdOkA1EJTNivM=s16000" /></a></div>Yes, the title on this one is "S.O.S. Love in Distress".<br /><div style="text-align: left;">To be fair, this was the <i>final</i> strip in the <i>final</i> issue of <b>Love Journal</b>, so the editor can be forgiven for letting the incorrect header slip by!<br />After all, what were they going to do...<i>fire</i> him?<br />In a couple of cases, as <i><b>Orbit</b></i> was winding down operations just before cancellation, they took an "S.O.S. for Love" strip from the previous year like this one...<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJskbXZ_8PHPNIpAelgVYtTOScsqw93-ymfUDVF-onQ_1YK9sUYn9AdJgMun7kLVtWnzZ2bTV1WfgSIQFFO4v883vjN3Yy8WWhfJKsacIIc7n630Ql1zIwkQ6Ha0hl3RHlAXbQoN21lZkpui93ONeeemYJMz_OnGH6-oCH7MRfgcxeZeP1_fIrmKbkjXk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJskbXZ_8PHPNIpAelgVYtTOScsqw93-ymfUDVF-onQ_1YK9sUYn9AdJgMun7kLVtWnzZ2bTV1WfgSIQFFO4v883vjN3Yy8WWhfJKsacIIc7n630Ql1zIwkQ6Ha0hl3RHlAXbQoN21lZkpui93ONeeemYJMz_OnGH6-oCH7MRfgcxeZeP1_fIrmKbkjXk=s16000" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-L_tLB32nshTVQaaO6GGYOowxpNhiruWB5m-FpOnCSdhIUG8lbUu-moSortGpGGHjLj2EobL1PtdVQKo38M84FLwWyRFBMy5Bu-_ZXHeF4dXKXTcHnd5DjVCGudrLM0gJ506hAVuBqK7V61Hu9N3nSmSCLd0JKGH2YE44d3rofNuZ6TgKhEaxoQUtWTE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-L_tLB32nshTVQaaO6GGYOowxpNhiruWB5m-FpOnCSdhIUG8lbUu-moSortGpGGHjLj2EobL1PtdVQKo38M84FLwWyRFBMy5Bu-_ZXHeF4dXKXTcHnd5DjVCGudrLM0gJ506hAVuBqK7V61Hu9N3nSmSCLd0JKGH2YE44d3rofNuZ6TgKhEaxoQUtWTE=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I guess they thought "PfH's" <i>Ray Mann</i> and "S.O.S.'s" <i>Mark Ford</i> were interchangeable!</div></div></div></div></span></span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Next Week...</i></span></b></div><b><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">What Will February Bring?</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>At This Point, We Haven't Decided Yet!</i></span></b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">But We <i>Can</i> Assure You...</span></b></div></span></b></div></b></div><b><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: red;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></span></b></div></span><span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>And now a Word from Our Sponsor...</i></span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Please Support True Love Comics Tales</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><i style="font-style: italic;">Visit </i>Amazon<i style="font-style: italic;"> and Buy...</i></span></b></div></span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="501" height="600" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" width="501" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Big John Buscema</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Comics and Drawings</i></span></b></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>A combination of complete checklist of Buscema's comic and magazine work </i>and a <i>heavily-illustrated catalog of a 2009 Italian museum exhibition of his work!</i></b></div></b></div></div></div></div></span></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-58894567864097677802024-01-24T07:00:00.060-05:002024-01-24T10:31:41.352-05:00John Buscema Tales OUR LOVE STORY "Boy Who Can't be Mine!"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Though </span><i><b>Marvel</b></i><span> continued publishing romance comics until 1976...</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvuVyXLZQhfL9OB8QTcWrFeZSSmQSRqubr5lvsL4YKRkIqCeaEbKRlCPjNlR2GWT0CkAVcFpR6tEmdS0dm_BgtApOUXZe_68vGX0yBFEbRdFb4u5hfSVedZqmK1i22MObONnOoqna8w9LZ0-7alBMVw9j42Vf-Lc3_6hXQKUVUgxYgPxjh3l0IyhuLMdA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvuVyXLZQhfL9OB8QTcWrFeZSSmQSRqubr5lvsL4YKRkIqCeaEbKRlCPjNlR2GWT0CkAVcFpR6tEmdS0dm_BgtApOUXZe_68vGX0yBFEbRdFb4u5hfSVedZqmK1i22MObONnOoqna8w9LZ0-7alBMVw9j42Vf-Lc3_6hXQKUVUgxYgPxjh3l0IyhuLMdA=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">...they stopped running <i>new</i> material in 1973.</div><div style="text-align: left;">This tale from <b>Our Love Story</b> #16 (1972) was John Buscema's <i>final</i> romance comic assignment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQtYP3hQtx4B5Xbc1hJlhVbql7W8jXB8w-2ChkRPoGFkHNnsJDSUhvK8fK9gzSrcHyzatP-iiVuEiKs52DghqXfslJLA_Ca5plBwsbeosBFChcOJ-JFuYZfPxkMtJtiySsu_j6xJkgx2D05O_kOQbyuYkwgtpsnH0hGsf-KKBACCSSHhSssW5_IHtAmQs" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvU1STPiRpLtS4sJfU6uA4FaMknBaW5sVWgFTSFDrIDdTPZoRX_ls-xnOf2xHJ9bYMMUs5FfAP2bSf2D2Lp7EOR2tS2fJjxzcvp_3w5d7j70nae-peJuiUtEBQhU6WGsZgTwMXeuKF_Iy8wt9zaCaj2I12X4ETnDTMXRWQBG3_i5i1MzUnPhBltie3sSE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvU1STPiRpLtS4sJfU6uA4FaMknBaW5sVWgFTSFDrIDdTPZoRX_ls-xnOf2xHJ9bYMMUs5FfAP2bSf2D2Lp7EOR2tS2fJjxzcvp_3w5d7j70nae-peJuiUtEBQhU6WGsZgTwMXeuKF_Iy8wt9zaCaj2I12X4ETnDTMXRWQBG3_i5i1MzUnPhBltie3sSE=s16000" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7bgtnCBqtOAIoLT-SUXQBvA1mn23S3vgEPhlvyhhx754kYYZrd-9_d-A7BIDr-SY0V8TN_VAufwGKA1DRJDEXG-zKz5HE3E99RRUkOX0bnNrtfsYNXMZNU5YuFXEbKYpAQAI4seQOdIxK4tZ3sf0b9-8EkVyk9cg8aZltjgv3u6apZM1MhmzaKxQfCHs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7bgtnCBqtOAIoLT-SUXQBvA1mn23S3vgEPhlvyhhx754kYYZrd-9_d-A7BIDr-SY0V8TN_VAufwGKA1DRJDEXG-zKz5HE3E99RRUkOX0bnNrtfsYNXMZNU5YuFXEbKYpAQAI4seQOdIxK4tZ3sf0b9-8EkVyk9cg8aZltjgv3u6apZM1MhmzaKxQfCHs=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Written by Stan Lee and inked by Joe Sinnott (who inked more issues of <b>Fantastic Four</b> than anybody else in history, including almost all of Buscema's stories), the story demonstrates Buscema's almost effortless mastery of graphic storytelling, going from plot point to plot point with a variety of angles and perspectives that a TV or movie cinematographer would be proud of!</div></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Next Week...</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Well, We Ran a Tale Each from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s</span></b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">What Will We Close Out the Month With?</span></b></div></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: red;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></span></b></div></span><span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>And now a Word from Our Sponsor...</i></span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Please Support True Love Comics Tales</span></span></b></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></span></b></div></i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="501" height="600" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" width="501" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Big John Buscema</span></b></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Comics and Drawings</i></span></b></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>A combination of complete checklist of Buscema's comic and magazine work </i>and a <i>heavily-illustrated catalog of a 2009 Italian museum exhibition of his work!</i></b></div></b></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-47395804194018829262024-01-17T07:00:00.007-05:002024-01-17T10:19:21.830-05:00John Buscema Tales OUR LOVE STORY "Only One Can Win!"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Though Don Heck is better-remembered by today's fans as a penciler...</span></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ABPPfmM-KlM/TbXht5W7wbI/AAAAAAAABIc/p7Bv_8XZs4o/s0/OLS0030014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ABPPfmM-KlM/TbXht5W7wbI/AAAAAAAABIc/p7Bv_8XZs4o/s0/OLS0030014.jpg" /></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">...he actually was a rather elegant (though slow) inker,</span><span style="text-align: left;"> as his rendering of John Buscema's pencils on this Stan Lee-scripted torrid tale from <i><b>Marvel's</b></i> </span><b style="text-align: left;">Our Love Story</b><span style="text-align: left;"> #3 (1969) amply-demonstrates!</span></span><br style="text-align: left;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u-S18fXoxLI/TbXh1UsX3II/AAAAAAAABIY/_pvSlKY7HLg/s0/OLS0030016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u-S18fXoxLI/TbXh1UsX3II/AAAAAAAABIY/_pvSlKY7HLg/s0/OLS0030016.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t2oR2lmhqDo/TbXh0hLLeGI/AAAAAAAABIU/sAMAwQ5-lso/s0/OLS0030017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t2oR2lmhqDo/TbXh0hLLeGI/AAAAAAAABIU/sAMAwQ5-lso/s0/OLS0030017.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rhJbw5Ka1dY/TbXiAVmy-EI/AAAAAAAABIQ/W9x-9VBXNeg/s0/OLS0030018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rhJbw5Ka1dY/TbXiAVmy-EI/AAAAAAAABIQ/W9x-9VBXNeg/s0/OLS0030018.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mCgzWUd_d4M/TbXiJyQw7TI/AAAAAAAABIE/3igiAgpRCss/s0/OLS0030019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mCgzWUd_d4M/TbXiJyQw7TI/AAAAAAAABIE/3igiAgpRCss/s0/OLS0030019.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--C8vVk3n_N0/TbXiMsXC8xI/AAAAAAAABIA/J2J1JlU7Rq0/s0/OLS0030020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--C8vVk3n_N0/TbXiMsXC8xI/AAAAAAAABIA/J2J1JlU7Rq0/s0/OLS0030020.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JalqFm2V1oo/TbXiOzaoH1I/AAAAAAAABH8/Qzztz9GkF3k/s0/OLS0030021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JalqFm2V1oo/TbXiOzaoH1I/AAAAAAAABH8/Qzztz9GkF3k/s0/OLS0030021.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Because, like John Buscema, he was such a <i>fast</i> penciler, both </span><i><b>Marvel</b></i><span> and </span><i><b>DC</b></i><span> used Heck in </span><i>that</i><span> capacity, only rarely letting him ink even his own work!<br />To be fair, Buscema was a <i>faster</i> inker...and John eventually talked <i><b>Marvel's</b></i> editors into letting him ocasionally ink his own rough layouts (not full pencils).</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Next Week, John Buscema's <i>final</i> romance comic tale, from 1972!</span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And now a Word from Our Sponsor...</span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Please Support True Love Comics Tales</span></span></b></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></span></b></div></i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="501" height="600" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" width="501" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Big John Buscema</span></b></a></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Comics and Drawings</i></span></b></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>A combination of complete checklist of Buscema's comic and magazine work </i>and a <i>heavily-illustrated catalog of a 2009 Italian museum exhibition of his work!</i></b></div></b></div></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-66674637609252080812024-01-10T07:00:00.099-05:002024-01-10T07:00:00.172-05:00John Buscema Tales LOVE DIARY "Not Meant for Love"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2024/01/john-buscema-tales-cowboy-romances.html" target="_blank">Once he was no longer constrained by <i>Atlas Comics'</i></a><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2024/01/john-buscema-tales-cowboy-romances.html" target="_blank"> tight graphic formatting</a>...</b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVAVYRJhA8REcH0RR1nwRGw2vTnDSQVrVaRREki9d88DASZogCY4Phh1V5q3h8hHVOn5ThokseOaXKgciylHmra-LH5SpzNKfKa94UPEgE_dzPasDfYV-5i7CbhfyTd4vxhbEjnUonvhIpj6_9tI1P_TTptbuw6hffEAq_-uuclCQGZwdlIP9dk-L23nU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVAVYRJhA8REcH0RR1nwRGw2vTnDSQVrVaRREki9d88DASZogCY4Phh1V5q3h8hHVOn5ThokseOaXKgciylHmra-LH5SpzNKfKa94UPEgE_dzPasDfYV-5i7CbhfyTd4vxhbEjnUonvhIpj6_9tI1P_TTptbuw6hffEAq_-uuclCQGZwdlIP9dk-L23nU=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Written by Dorothy Woolfolk, who later became the "womens' comics" editor at <b><i>DC</i></b> (including romance <i>and</i> superheroine titles), this never-reprinted story from <b><i>Orbit's</i> Love Diary</b> #13 (1951) is a classic example of what a romance comic was in the genre's prime!</div></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Next Week, a 1960s story from John Buscema!</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Witness his artistic evolution decade by decade!</i></span></b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And now a Word from Our Sponsor...</span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Please Support True Love Comics Tales</span></span></b></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></span></b></div></i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="501" height="600" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" width="501" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Big John Buscema</span></b></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Comics and Drawings</i></span></b></a><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><b><i>A combination of complete checklist of Buscema's comic and magazine work </i>and a <i>heavily-illustrated catalog of a 2009 Italian museum exhibition of his work!</i></b></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-46848455860849151032024-01-03T07:00:00.097-05:002024-01-09T11:38:07.691-05:00John Buscema Tales COWBOY ROMANCES "Cowgirls Don't Cry!"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then-fledgling (now-legendary) artist John Buscema entered the comics field in 1949...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuvzktDHV_f0Q0QCCacyCO_uqQlMOXJQ7ku8UeqX1fv5xys2jj1YLLhZ3UU2_Kqlr4m4i6pFA8ee0MIbJ-UKsfKn6-kYIFxhzcLShoL0QjJV1NlUDPNafP_uLntB8IImy4ChpjoHokR47w1WlyPsEnYcCPqhMqxHi7EE-JEZKLNm65GN6fcNpHmueQooc/s16000/CowboyRomancesV1N1_38.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This never-reprinted story from <b><i>Atlas'</i> Cowboy Romances</b> #1(1949) was one of nine romance tales John illustrated that year.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Six</i> of them were for Western romance comics!</div><div style="text-align: left;">(It was a <i>very</i> popular sub-genre at that point!)<br />BTW, John followed the established format for <i><b>Atlas Comics'</b></i> romance stories.<br />No full-page "splash" pages!<br />Six-panels to a page (except for the first page).<br />Lots of medium (from the waist up) and close-up panels.<br />When Buscema began working for <i>other</i> publishers, those restrictions no longer applied, and the artist we've come to know and admire burst forth...</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Next Week, a 1950s story from John Buscema!</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Witness his artistic evolution decade by decade!</i></span></b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And now a Word from Our Sponsor...</span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Please Support True Love Comics Tales</span></span></b></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></span></b></div></i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="501" height="600" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+IZO6zT7L._AC_UY600_.jpg" width="501" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Big John Buscema</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/41LguAr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Comics and Drawings</i></span></b></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>A combination of complete checklist of Buscema's comic and magazine work </i>and a <i>heavily-illustrated catalog of a 2009 Italian museum exhibition of his work!</i></b></div></span></div></div></div></div><p></p>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-69192394249701899302023-12-27T07:00:00.058-05:002023-12-27T16:44:54.765-05:00Love on New Year's Eve LOVE DIARY "Make Way for Love"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Though the caption on the cover references a story about three New Year's resolutions...</span></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bk7LCxWhqsE/X-yx86M4DMI/AAAAAAAAkz0/7nwrjff1Vn8QGlex878LQURtJI6czGsGwCPcBGAYYCw/s797/LoveDiary33-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bk7LCxWhqsE/X-yx86M4DMI/AAAAAAAAkz0/7nwrjff1Vn8QGlex878LQURtJI6czGsGwCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/LoveDiary33-01.jpg" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...the cover art <i>doesn't</i> show the characters from <i>that</i> tale (or <i>any</i> other story) in the issue!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At least it's by the same artist...John Buscema!</span></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c0mmNm8CJ7A/X-yyIN-0QPI/AAAAAAAAkz4/S49mDO-5SfAzs_dN4_JZzvRORNZDeXk9QCPcBGAYYCw/s775/LoveDiary33-15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c0mmNm8CJ7A/X-yyIN-0QPI/AAAAAAAAkz4/S49mDO-5SfAzs_dN4_JZzvRORNZDeXk9QCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/LoveDiary33-15.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-anoEMxcTmYo/X-yyqvUTssI/AAAAAAAAk0E/0lvEtc8qPI09D9RijcO-vC-kqLViMxRrQCPcBGAYYCw/s775/LoveDiary33-16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-anoEMxcTmYo/X-yyqvUTssI/AAAAAAAAk0E/0lvEtc8qPI09D9RijcO-vC-kqLViMxRrQCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/LoveDiary33-16.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZJ_Xy-KOyLo/X-zVbQ-aWpI/AAAAAAAAk0Q/c2sjmbC9YPwavNWZqPA_5SXOIkE9YGC9ACLcBGAsYHQ/LoveDiary33-17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="550" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZJ_Xy-KOyLo/X-zVbQ-aWpI/AAAAAAAAk0Q/c2sjmbC9YPwavNWZqPA_5SXOIkE9YGC9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/LoveDiary33-17.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--ZVs8YFZqTE/X-zVf8ORsXI/AAAAAAAAk0U/HeXdP7L0hvczQ8b-f93JauKprL1KdlKPACLcBGAsYHQ/LoveDiary33-18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="550" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--ZVs8YFZqTE/X-zVf8ORsXI/AAAAAAAAk0U/HeXdP7L0hvczQ8b-f93JauKprL1KdlKPACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/LoveDiary33-18.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-USEIKt7V8vc/X-zVkaSPYoI/AAAAAAAAk0Y/ACp3og7YtpEI_X65gYqTrDrCEr-yR5pwQCLcBGAsYHQ/LoveDiary33-19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="550" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-USEIKt7V8vc/X-zVkaSPYoI/AAAAAAAAk0Y/ACp3og7YtpEI_X65gYqTrDrCEr-yR5pwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/LoveDiary33-19.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J0LFQ_88BHI/X-zVo8OQxqI/AAAAAAAAk0c/dZTzvvFGOPIIfVwGK_PatyRZeX9yephFACLcBGAsYHQ/LoveDiary33-20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="550" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J0LFQ_88BHI/X-zVo8OQxqI/AAAAAAAAk0c/dZTzvvFGOPIIfVwGK_PatyRZeX9yephFACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/LoveDiary33-20.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9Oymd-ipcNc/X-zVtOCkXUI/AAAAAAAAk0k/fHsUrIQzcDIAR36TuKm0EdEdPqCoSeWfwCLcBGAsYHQ/LoveDiary33-21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="550" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9Oymd-ipcNc/X-zVtOCkXUI/AAAAAAAAk0k/fHsUrIQzcDIAR36TuKm0EdEdPqCoSeWfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/LoveDiary33-21.jpg" /></a><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">Illustrated by John Buscema and scriped by a currently-unknown writer, this never-reprinted story from <b><i>Orbit's </i>Love Diary</b> #33 (1953) superbly-demonstrates the versatility of an artist most present-day comics fans know <i>only</i> for his voluminous <b><i>Marvel </i></b>superhero work and <b>Conan the Barbarian</b>!<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">But that'll change in January, which we decree will be...</div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>John Buscema</b> <i><b>Month!</b></i></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If Miss It!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">HAPPY </span><span style="color: #ff00fe;">NEW</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> YEAR</span></b></span></div></div><p></p><p></p>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-41596330188269687452023-12-20T07:00:00.022-05:002023-12-20T07:00:00.248-05:00SECRET HEARTS "So Little Time!" / FALLING IN LOVE "Perfect Gift"<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's a bittersweet Yuletide tale about potential love that was published twice...</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_6dDB9sxUukEYZk8GKlmFkJdzBg30DwOIo6tJGzX9b01_40113J70KCbtQzccva3YVepTzeEvAx49cBNBhWzLueSFwBgxskCmSgQLJpja54govJ6derM0VmHzZwIQeNwYXqu-F3rVWkTmaG8DYwoPv-3AuaBg0hJgw3a4LtniZZouQ2tLJ-3nRkWBf1E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_6dDB9sxUukEYZk8GKlmFkJdzBg30DwOIo6tJGzX9b01_40113J70KCbtQzccva3YVepTzeEvAx49cBNBhWzLueSFwBgxskCmSgQLJpja54govJ6derM0VmHzZwIQeNwYXqu-F3rVWkTmaG8DYwoPv-3AuaBg0hJgw3a4LtniZZouQ2tLJ-3nRkWBf1E=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...first, half a century ago, in <b><i>DC's</i> Secret Hearts</b> #87 (1963)...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvzNvCFA50E1ONbN1TqBv8cJ6vF06EAk0voJ85L4V3vlxrqQxqPcF7t1D9JtN5YYSKDCB523VPZnuPDjm1y1vi3GkbIAFRWO4YIFnjQ8TjVI4lgvIiqaurSS0WCQV_dDybX6pwPlqWMz3232xcMgExCYIlB_kyHQX6GuoybXcXbNgVXNhOFgWdCgq52TI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvzNvCFA50E1ONbN1TqBv8cJ6vF06EAk0voJ85L4V3vlxrqQxqPcF7t1D9JtN5YYSKDCB523VPZnuPDjm1y1vi3GkbIAFRWO4YIFnjQ8TjVI4lgvIiqaurSS0WCQV_dDybX6pwPlqWMz3232xcMgExCYIlB_kyHQX6GuoybXcXbNgVXNhOFgWdCgq52TI=s16000" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB4uJe-2R0bLbXezHrEcxMIpraaqAivbk-LGMn7nn0igCeY_Lg828o9gs-wJfq6ZXWgns6sNQt9BJrtZLc7BmZ1WO_fxSZwCeiIgTMiap_j3swiH-1MtaoFgPsY0OpEYtg2TEBXnPXwA7LKIci1q0xvAPBByDTRUqP0VohpZdADVUqSK8fkzygsX1npyY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB4uJe-2R0bLbXezHrEcxMIpraaqAivbk-LGMn7nn0igCeY_Lg828o9gs-wJfq6ZXWgns6sNQt9BJrtZLc7BmZ1WO_fxSZwCeiIgTMiap_j3swiH-1MtaoFgPsY0OpEYtg2TEBXnPXwA7LKIci1q0xvAPBByDTRUqP0VohpZdADVUqSK8fkzygsX1npyY=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adapted (with <i>very</i> few changes) from the classic O Henry short story and illustrated by comic creative P Craig Rusell for the benefit comic <span style="text-align: left;"> </span><i style="text-align: left;"><b>Star*Reach's</b></i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;">Within Our Reach</b><span style="text-align: left;"> (1991), a Christmas charity benefit book with proceeds going equally to </span><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://amfar.gospringboard.com/secure/fuel-lifesaving-research?df_id=2442&autologin=true&s_subsrc=D2000AGSE02XX&utm_source=D2000AGSE02XX&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=SEMBrand&gclid=Cj0KCQiAnNacBhDvARIsABnDa69tkvp1YK-0kNg--p4xu41NBQFvUWE5PV3sQs9tWQlJGFzJ3fjoq6IaAqt3EALw_wcB" target="_blank">AmFAR</a></b><span style="text-align: left;"> and </span><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://sempervirens.org/" target="_blank">Sempervirens</a></b><span style="text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The book was also <i><b>Star*Reach Publishing's</b></i> <i>final</i> project under their own imprint.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-29-fi-2901-story.html" target="_blank">The company continued as a packaging studio for various comics publishers</a> through the 1990s.</span></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Next Week:</span></span></b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Another Xmas-themed story!</span></span></b></div><span style="color: red;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Yule <i>(sorry, couldn't resist)</i> Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!</span></span></b></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And Now a Word from our Sponsor...</span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Please Support True Love Comics Tales</span></span></b></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Visit </i>Amazon<i> and Buy...</i></span></b></div></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VvqpFD6pNDU/WjE4U0BmMLI/AAAAAAAAYr0/KPGPgKg0sJkh8H1aXx8ZTugfILsi9lUoQCKgBGAs/s1600/CI-15_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="530" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VvqpFD6pNDU/WjE4U0BmMLI/AAAAAAAAYr0/KPGPgKg0sJkh8H1aXx8ZTugfILsi9lUoQCKgBGAs/s1600/CI-15_03.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2017/12/gift-of-magi-by-o-henry.html" target="_blank">by Gary Gianni</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3dpj1BGfIpU/UNFR9_W55DI/AAAAAAAAPkQ/vMcSaQnoDEs/s0/BOH-004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="504" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3dpj1BGfIpU/UNFR9_W55DI/AAAAAAAAPkQ/vMcSaQnoDEs/s1600/BOH-004.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2012/12/o-henrys-gift-of-magi.html" target="_blank">by John Fago & Anton Caravanna</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">O Henry's classic Christmas story of True Love has been adapted into every media format imaginable, sometimes as a period piece, sometimes updated to the present, and, in a couple of cases, projected into the future!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><i>Tomorrow...</i></span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Another<i>, rarely-seen</i> graphic retelling of the classic Christmas tale!</span></b></div></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</b></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">And now a word from our sponsor...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Please Support</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>True Love Comics Tales!</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91M4owFS3gL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="662" height="640" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91M4owFS3gL.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2PaUJDo" target="_blank">Gift of the Magi</a></b></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2PaUJDo" target="_blank"> adapted by PJ Lynch</a></b></span></i> </div></i></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-75723580363289716562023-12-06T07:00:00.002-05:002023-12-06T07:00:00.129-05:00The Woman Who Actually LOVED Scrooge!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hBDiC_aWJc4/STt5iWnk-qI/AAAAAAAAAaM/lpIjhvIomxQ/s0/BelleChristmasCarol.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hBDiC_aWJc4/STt5iWnk-qI/AAAAAAAAAaM/lpIjhvIomxQ/s1600/BelleChristmasCarol.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
When you think of <i>Ebenezer Scrooge</i>, "lovable" is probably the <span style="font-style: italic;">last</span> word you'd associate with <span style="font-style: italic;">him</span>.<br />
Yet, <span style="font-style: italic;">one</span> woman gave her heart to him...was engaged to him...and had her heart broken by him!<br />
Her name was <i>Belle</i>!<br />
<br />
She appears <i>twice</i> in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Christmas Carol</span>, during Scrooge's journey with the <i>Ghost of Christmas Past</i>.<br />
First, we see how the young Scrooge choose between his love of money and love of her.<br />
Second,
we see how, after the breakup, she married a good man and together they
raised a loving family, giving Scrooge a look at what "might have been"
had he chosen to remain with her!<br />
<br />
Almost every adaptation <i>shows</i> the <i>first</i> incident, but <i>omits</i> the <i>second</i> scene
(usually due to running time or page count constraints), thus many people have never known
how Belle's life turned out after Scrooge left her!<br />
<br />
Here's the section about Belle from <b>A Christmas Carol's</b> <b><i>Stave Two</i></b>...<br />
<i>For again Scrooge saw himself.</i><br />
<i>He was
older now; a man in the prime of life.</i><br />
<i>His face had not the harsh and
rigid lines of later years; but it had begun to wear the signs of care
and avarice.</i><br />
<i>There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye,
which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of
the growing tree would fall.
</i><br />
<i>
He was not alone, but sat by the side of a fair young girl in a
mourning-dress: in whose eyes there were tears, which sparkled in the
light that shone out of the Ghost of Christmas Past.
</i><br />
<i>
“It matters little,” she said, softly. “To you, very
little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort
you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause
to grieve.”
</i><br />
<i>
“What Idol has displaced you?” he rejoined.
</i><br />
<i>
“A golden one.”
</i><br />
<i>
“This is the even-handed dealing of the world!” he said.</i><br />
<i>“There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is
nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of
wealth!”
</i><br />
<i>
“You fear the world too much,” she answered, gently.</i><br />
<i>“All
your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of
its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by
one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?”
</i><br />
<i>
“What then?” he retorted. “Even if I have grown so
much wiser, what then? I am not changed towards you.”
</i><br />
<i>
She shook her head.
</i><br />
<i>
“Am I?”
</i><br />
<i>
“Our contract is an old one. </i><br />
<i>It was made when we were both poor
and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our
worldly fortune by our patient industry. </i><br />
<i>You are changed. </i><br />
<i>When it
was made, you were another man.”
</i><br />
<i>
“I was a boy,” he said impatiently.
</i><br />
<i>
“Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are,”
she returned.</i><br />
<i>“I am.</i><br />
<i>That which promised happiness when we were
one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two.</i><br />
<i>How often and
how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say.</i><br />
<i>It is enough that I
have thought of it, and can release you.”
</i><br />
<i>
“Have I ever sought release?”
</i><br />
<i>
“In words. No. Never.”
</i><br />
<i>
“In what, then?”
</i><br />
<i>
“In a changed nature; in an altered spirit; in another atmosphere
of life; another Hope as its great end.</i><br />
<i>In everything that made my love
of any worth or value in your sight.</i><br />
<i>If this had never been between us,”
said the girl, looking mildly, but with steadiness, upon him; “tell
me, would you seek me out and try to win me now? </i><br />
<i>Ah, no!”
</i><br />
<i>
He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in spite of
himself.</i><br />
<i>But he said with a struggle, “You think not.”
</i><br />
<i>
“I would gladly think otherwise if I could,” she answered,
“Heaven knows! When I have learned a Truth like this, I
know how strong and irresistible it must be.</i><br />
<i>But if you were free
to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a
dowerless girl—you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh
everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false
enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your
repentance and regret would surely follow?</i><br />
<i>I do; and I release you.</i><br />
<i>With
a full heart, for the love of him you once were.”
</i><br />
<i>
He was about to speak; but with her head turned from him, she resumed.
</i><br />
<i>
“You may—the memory of what is past half makes me hope you
will—have pain in this.</i><br />
<i>A very, very brief time, and you will
dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from
which it happened well that you awoke.</i><br />
<i>May you be happy in the life you
have chosen!”
</i><br />
<i>
She left him, and they parted.
</i><br />
<i>
“Spirit!” said Scrooge, “show me no more!</i><br />
<i>Conduct me
home. Why do you delight to torture me?”
</i><br />
<i>
“One shadow more!” exclaimed the Ghost.
</i><br />
<i>
“No more!” cried Scrooge.</i><br />
<i>“No more. I don’t wish
to see it. Show me no more!”
</i><br />
<i>
But the relentless Ghost pinioned him in both his arms, and forced him
to observe what happened next. </i><br />
<i>
They were in another scene and place; a room, not very large or
handsome, but full of comfort.</i><br />
<i>Near to the winter fire sat a beautiful
young girl, so like that last that Scrooge believed it was the same,
until he saw her, now a comely matron, sitting opposite her
daughter.</i><br />
<i>The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there
were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind
could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not
forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was
conducting itself like forty.</i><br />
<i>The consequences were uproarious beyond
belief; but no one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and
daughter laughed heartily, and enjoyed it very much; and the latter,
soon beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged by the young
brigands most ruthlessly.</i><br />
<i>What would I not have given to be one of them!</i><br />
<i>Though I never could have been so rude, no, no! I wouldn’t for the
wealth of all the world have crushed that braided hair, and torn it
down; and for the precious little shoe, I wouldn’t have plucked it
off, God bless my soul! to save my life.</i><br />
<i>As to measuring her waist in
sport, as they did, bold young brood, I couldn’t have done it; I
should have expected my arm to have grown round it for a punishment, and
never come straight again.</i><br />
<i>And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to
have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have
opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and
never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which
would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do
confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have
been man enough to know its value.
</i><br />
<i>
But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately
ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards
it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet
the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys
and presents.</i><br />
<i>Then the shouting and the struggling, and the onslaught
that was made on the defenceless porter! The scaling him with chairs for
ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels,
hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck, pommel his back,
and kick his legs in irrepressible affection!</i><br />
<i>The shouts of wonder and
delight with which the development of every package was received!</i><br />
<i>The
terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting
a doll’s frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of
having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter!</i><br />
<i>The
immense relief of finding this a false alarm!</i><br />
<i>The joy, and gratitude,
and ecstasy!</i><br />
<i>They are all indescribable alike.</i><br />
<i>It is enough that by
degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlour, and by
one stair at a time, up to the top of the house; where they went to bed,
and so subsided.
</i><br />
<i>
And now Scrooge looked on more attentively than ever, when the master of
the house, having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her
and her mother at his own fireside; and when he thought that such
another creature, quite as graceful and as full of promise, might have
called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his
life, his sight grew very dim indeed.
</i><br />
<i>
“Belle,” said the husband, turning to his wife with a smile,
“I saw an old friend of yours this afternoon.”
</i><br />
<i>
“Who was it?”
</i><br />
<i>
“Guess!”
</i><br />
<i>
“How can I? Tut, don’t I know?” she added in the same
breath, laughing as he laughed. “Mr. Scrooge.”
</i><br />
<i>
“Mr. Scrooge it was.</i><br />
<i>I passed his office window; and as it was not
shut up, and he had a candle inside, I could scarcely help seeing him.</i><br />
<i>His partner lies upon the point of death, I hear; and there he sat
alone.</i><br />
<i>Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”
</i><br />
<i>
“Spirit!” said Scrooge in a broken voice, “remove me
from this place.”
</i><br />
<i>
“I told you these were shadows of the things that have been,”
said the Ghost. </i><br />
<i>“That they are what they are, do not blame me!”
</i><br />
<i>
“Remove me!” Scrooge exclaimed, “I cannot bear it!”
</i><br />
<i>
He turned upon the Ghost, and seeing that it looked upon him with a
face, in which in some strange way there were fragments of all the faces
it had shown him, wrestled with it.
</i><br />
<i>
“Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!” </i><br />
<br />
Most illustrators of the many editions that have been printed over
the decades have also bypassed the conclusion of Belle's plotline.<br />
But <i>not</i> the celebrated <i>Arthur Rackham!</i><br />
The legendary illustrator did not one, but<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">two</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>color illustrations just for the short conclusion to Belle's story in <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm#link2" target="_blank">Stave Two</a>!<br />
We at <b><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/atocom" target="_blank">Atomic Kommie Comics™</a></b> just <span style="font-style: italic;">had</span> to include <span style="font-style: italic;">both</span> of them in our <b><i><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/atocom/4080427" target="_blank">A Christmas Carol</a></i> </b>collection!<br />
One, <span style="font-style: italic;">Belle & Children</span> shows Scrooge's once-love playing with her kids.<br />
The other, <span style="font-style: italic;">Belle's Family</span> portrays the children crowding around their father (whom, had he chosen differently, Scrooge <i>could</i> have been) as he comes home, laden with presents!<br /><div style="text-align: center;">And now, you can have either of them on a host of Christmas collectibles by clicking <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/atocom/4080427" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>!</div></span>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-65671747239187841572023-12-02T07:00:00.008-05:002023-12-02T10:24:27.433-05:00Alex Toth Tales YOUNG LOVE "20 Miles to Heartbreak" Part 4<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2023/12/alex-toth-tales-secret-hearts-20-miles.html" target="_blank">When Last We Left Our Heroine...</a></b></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMDoSEyP8zjHJReI9LOtLX-tcYWIQkE2MokfQR4RDK8XQ3h8eJXPffMqztDzUCfpRLij_x1kb3p8cthA6TJo8sMtzj-WDSR3gk8R_cWhZ9gC8atJ6y_xvJ44CXlCGQaiYsmpKH1WALgBQnrHLNVGBjEAPy_xyEQD6D_DvSobzNQEStkzhm5AUFWkK5Fg/s780/YoungLove79-00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiH6gsoAg2NHll_3v2irXAm4nRMIvZMU6kWScFx0-YwgjOC242dZ-JFgZDNlB9w9rweTapwMWAgK9eRncuz49dM0u330P8_3Fdb5J-wdjXT0qBZjzrxrYmJmYugsTz4Vgf4P6aJUiFH5cJh1e0cz3fejFjNTQ42LMSGlzvFY7CsxS_0CiQOKpxpmgTULA8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiH6gsoAg2NHll_3v2irXAm4nRMIvZMU6kWScFx0-YwgjOC242dZ-JFgZDNlB9w9rweTapwMWAgK9eRncuz49dM0u330P8_3Fdb5J-wdjXT0qBZjzrxrYmJmYugsTz4Vgf4P6aJUiFH5cJh1e0cz3fejFjNTQ42LMSGlzvFY7CsxS_0CiQOKpxpmgTULA8=s16000" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This final story in a four-issue arc appeared in </span><b><i>DC's</i> Young Love</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> #79 (1970), penciled by Alex Toth and inked by Vince Colletta.</span></div></span><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Next Week:</span></b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">We Begin Our Month-Long Series of Christmas-Themed Posts, including a <i>very</i> HTF version of O Henry's classic "Gift of the Magi" by P Craig Russell!</span></span></b></div><span style="color: red;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</span></span></b></div></span></span></b><p></p>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-46835258030972386272023-12-01T07:00:00.056-05:002023-12-01T22:45:34.272-05:00Alex Toth Tales SECRET HEARTS "20 Miles to Heartbreak" Part 3<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2023/11/alex-toth-tales-secret-hearts-20-miles.html" target="_blank">We Have Already Seen</a>...</b></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRneL6tXaesSl-YG19uWgaNxPtmrVwBkOI6jdyxMoTr1C6qheJHarUCcgqP9KVMVNQyhyAe_92CoGLcXPpkJMfqBSrcKu4GksFRZE5fT-qunPibJFMKQf0gKDZKt6AlEQ-Poa4Br_SkwrM643t-Fw2OcalI31V2qtD_RRfeONC8ewQUfld8Y4V2xWKZK8/s780/Secrethearts142-00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRneL6tXaesSl-YG19uWgaNxPtmrVwBkOI6jdyxMoTr1C6qheJHarUCcgqP9KVMVNQyhyAe_92CoGLcXPpkJMfqBSrcKu4GksFRZE5fT-qunPibJFMKQf0gKDZKt6AlEQ-Poa4Br_SkwrM643t-Fw2OcalI31V2qtD_RRfeONC8ewQUfld8Y4V2xWKZK8/s16000/Secrethearts142-00.jpg" /></a><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>...actually, this cover scene by penciler Dick Giordano and inker Vince Colletta </span><i>doesn't</i><span> occur in the story, since it's </span><i>not Juan</i><span> at the door!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">(In fact, he <i>only</i> appears in a flashback in this chapter!)</div></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">So <i>who</i> is it???</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyqV4nN3Y-6vrMeKQNRivRU2QQJuWU_YVwPExhHKD6FCqeUKK8MILxW-p8B8VitJLwcIrEwHp1mMuuAFL1bQhlVluRrPzSI8rAXqxNuDUGnkQydkv6zHCWDiTwg_rYGAgFebircXGBgv8a6bG4jlzAJODH0fwjYOzfgupEa1zDpY6yWAPrpn4SUczFZBg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This second chapter (out of four) from<span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><b><i>DC's</i> Secret Hearts</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span>#141 (1970) was penciled and lettered by Alex Toth and inked by Vince Colletta.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>(And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...)</b></div></span></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; 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font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>...Since You'll Be Able to Read it on Thursday!</b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>But, You <i>Will</i> Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!</b></div></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This initial chapter from <b><i>DC's</i> Young Love</b> #78 (1970) was scripted by Barbara Friedlander, penciled and lettered by Alex Toth and inked by Vince Colletta.<br />Note: usually, if Toth does the lettering, he usually inks the story as well...but <i>not</i> in the case of this multi-parter.<br />The reason is unknown.</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>(and now a word from our sponsor...)</i></span></b></div></b></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Please Support</span></span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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This poignant Alex Toth-penciled and Mike Peppe-inked story from <b><i>Standard's</i> Popular Romances</b> #22 (1953) is probably the single-most reprinted tale from <i>any</i> of the company's romance books.</div>
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Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-67874593574045868292023-11-16T07:00:00.090-05:002023-11-17T12:10:55.543-05:00Alex Toth Tales YOUNG ROMANCE "Searing Conclusion to Next Door to Love"<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/2023/11/alex-toth-tales-young-romance-next-door.html" target="_blank">We Have Already Seen</a>...</span></b><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9cncTkqTpxL08tF1JOd-V5i4czHBf29ohX2LckBOkZUCHmwDPvOSjRkTz6TZbc6cpbw0oIhKIBkyTyJiZDhX1RmJTrVTEGGCOo0W6-BlsQkbSTfTlEpFqwdLrZwtYFboc--HT-d8YPNCJ8_IDeLNJHdg8kr0DxBCIaJQo_0OwWQCyXRqTOSznwjfncPw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="815" data-original-width="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9cncTkqTpxL08tF1JOd-V5i4czHBf29ohX2LckBOkZUCHmwDPvOSjRkTz6TZbc6cpbw0oIhKIBkyTyJiZDhX1RmJTrVTEGGCOo0W6-BlsQkbSTfTlEpFqwdLrZwtYFboc--HT-d8YPNCJ8_IDeLNJHdg8kr0DxBCIaJQo_0OwWQCyXRqTOSznwjfncPw=s16000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Coverart by Werner Roth (pencils), Vince Colletta (inks)</i></div><div style="font-size: large; 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font-style: normal;" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Treasures Retold</span></b></a><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3hOTR9k" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: medium; font-style: normal;" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Lost Art of Alex Toth</i></span></b></a></div>Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-57288339899769642182023-11-15T07:00:00.006-05:002023-11-15T12:50:01.585-05:00Alex Toth Tales YOUNG ROMANCE "Next Door to Love" Part 1<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's part one of a two-part tale with <i>both</i> parts cover-featured...</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6fxltqqaexMSP96yFP4YCexKAhqOrS7cAni4kSs-xxLIOFNeVQlw4XODN6yYJpC3l-WuzhVPbYsSjJUT1U5yYnDFgvBd8mVoubgTaCEaI40RFCuIlxg6ehe0rVMyY89VURtsxi57p2F9h0zJU9E76qABsxaTws2who0M4hK8fLFrV7LjVoss1KfiNp60" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Can a war bride find happiness in America with her ex-army husband?</span></div>
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Or will annoying in-laws who look down their noses at immigrants screw the whole thing up?</span></div>
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While the scripter of this poignant tale of redemption and reconciliation from <b><i>Standard's</i> Thrilling Romances</b> #23 (1953) is unknown, the pencil art is by comics legend <a href="http://truelovecomicstales.blogspot.com/search/label/Alex%20Toth" target="_blank">Alex Toth</a> (with inks by Mike Peppe) who went from being one of comics' best storytellers to designing/art directing most of the 1960s-70s non-funny animal output of tv animation studio <b><i>Hanna-Barbera</i></b>, including <b>Space Ghost</b>, <b>Scooby-Doo</b>, <b>Super Friends</b>, and <b>Josie and the Pussycats</b>!<br />So, this month, our topic is one particular artist, and we'll be featuring his romance comics art from the 1950s through 1970s!</span></div>
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Britt Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8115074478031698685.post-10899154824622314462023-11-01T07:00:00.015-04:002023-11-01T07:00:00.145-04:00Halloween HeartBreak SPEED CARTER "KIss of Death"<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We originally intended to run this story around Valentine's Day...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-891rvs_uzOc/T0zolGmv22I/AAAAAAAAZYU/nKN39rvtZHk/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-891rvs_uzOc/T0zolGmv22I/AAAAAAAAZYU/nKN39rvtZHk/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252009.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...but after carefully re-reading it, you'll understand why we decided against it and ran it the day after Halloween!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S4C59-KsoCQ/T0zolRS-pwI/AAAAAAAAZYM/BXiPKbKQRio/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S4C59-KsoCQ/T0zolRS-pwI/AAAAAAAAZYM/BXiPKbKQRio/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252010.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aHj64oSBiEg/T0zokBm_p_I/AAAAAAAAZYI/TCVwubPE62A/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aHj64oSBiEg/T0zokBm_p_I/AAAAAAAAZYI/TCVwubPE62A/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252011.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3xujHaSk1D0/T0zoxHRBADI/AAAAAAAAZYE/18SGB8aTsPw/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3xujHaSk1D0/T0zoxHRBADI/AAAAAAAAZYE/18SGB8aTsPw/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252013.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n_2n85cpFiQ/T0zozQmNGPI/AAAAAAAAZYA/a2xcNqaVbgU/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n_2n85cpFiQ/T0zozQmNGPI/AAAAAAAAZYA/a2xcNqaVbgU/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252014.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V31ctyc0A0I/T0zo3S49b3I/AAAAAAAAZX8/CpiSNY5Jxuw/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V31ctyc0A0I/T0zo3S49b3I/AAAAAAAAZX8/CpiSNY5Jxuw/s0/Spaceman%2520006%2520-%252015.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">This story of futuristic male/female relations from <i><b>Atlas' </b></i></span><b style="text-align: left;">Speed Carter: SpaceMan</b><span style="text-align: left;"> #6 (1954) was scripted (as were </span><i><span style="text-align: left;">all</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Speed Carter</b></span></i><span style="text-align: left;"> tales throughout the series' run) by Hank Chapman, and illustrated (as were all </span><i style="text-align: left;"><b>Speed Carter</b></i><span style="text-align: left;"> tales in this issue) by Bob Forgione.<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;">Next week:</b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>We Don't Know What We'll Run...Yet</i><i>!</i></span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>But We </i>Do<i> Know...</i></span></b></div></b></div></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; 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