Wednesday, August 31, 2016

ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "Head Over Heels in Love"

With Labor Day coming up, it's time to ease into Autumn...
...as we did into summer, with another story from the short-lived (and never reprinted) St John's Adventures in Romance #1 (1949)!
Written by the prolific Dana Dutch, about whom very little is known, except his extensive list of  comic scripts.
Interestingly, out of 206 identified scripts, over 200 were romance stories, with a smattering of superhero and high adventure!
Illustrated by the versatile Frank Bolle, who's still active in the field today!
Here's his website!
Next week:
The Return of Reach for Happiness...
(Yes, we screwed up the scheduling, but this time we mean it!)
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Things are really getting juicy...)

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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

MY LOVE "Must I Live Without Love?"

As Summer turns to Fall in the real world...
...we look at a cover by John Buscema and Frank Giacoia that takes a scene occuring (in the story) during the chilly Autumn and turns it into a hot Summer pic...
When this story by writer Stan Lee, penciler John Buscema, and inker Sal Buscema initially-appeared in Marvel's My Love V2N1 (1969), it wasn't the cover-featured tale.
But, when it was reprinted in Marvel's My Love Special #1 (1971), a new cover, based on the last panel of Page 6, was commissioned.
Guess they felt a bare-chested guy and bikini-clad girl would sell better than the sweater-clad couple in the story...
Next week:
The Return of Reach for Happiness...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Things are really getting juicy...)

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"It Happened at Woodstock," "My Heart Broke in Hollywood," "Love on the Rebound!"
Collects Love Romance #89 and #101-104; My Love #2, #14, #16 and #18-20; Teen-Age Romance #77 and #84, Our Love Story #5; and Patsy Walker #119.
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE "Grey Lady of Coburn Manor" Chapter Four: Hidden Room

...the home's owner, in the process of selling the centuries-old structure to a hotel chain, may be the latest victim of the ghostly Grey Lady...
Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love died with this issue, but was reborn as Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, a horror anthology that managed another eleven issues before, ahem, giving up the ghost!
Thank you for joining us for our annual "beach read" mini-marathon.
Be back each Wednesday for another classic romance comic tale!
Next Week...
We don't know yet what we'll present!
But, we can guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Yeah, we say that a lot...but it's true!)
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE "Grey Lady of Coburn Manor" Chapter Three: Body in the Garden

Is a ghost responsible for the deaths at Coburn Manor since Suzanne Westwood and Brian Stevens arrived to assess the building's condition before the final sale to the hotel chain they work for?
While the terrifying situation has brought the co-workers' relationship to a more...intimate...level, the body count is climbing...
You may note the cover by Nick Cardy has Suzanne as a blonde instead of the bright red hair she hs inside!
It's possible the cover art was prepared and printed several months before the insides were colored and printed, so the editor might simply have lost track of the character's hair color...
Inker Vince Colletta was the "go-to" guy when a comic publisher needed a story inked fast, though some pencilers complained that, to meet tight deadlines, he would leave out art elements they had taken great efforts to include.
To be fair, his delicate linework was ideal for romance comics as the numerous examples we've posted HERE can attest.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE "Grey Lady of Coburn Manor" Chapter Two: Who is Walking on My Grave?

...notice how guys always say that to women who've just been scared out of their minds?
Penciler Ernesto Chan (aka Ernie Chan and Ernie Chua) was one of the wave of Filipino artists who worked in American comics from the early 1970s to the early 1990s.
Unlike most of his comtemporaries, he moved to the US and became a citizen.
Besides being DC's primary cover artist for several years, his best-known work was on the b/w Savage Sword of Conan.
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Monday, August 15, 2016

DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE "Grey Lady of Coburn Manor" Chapter One: Mystery of the Mansion!

It's time for our annual "beach read" presentation...
...with a never-reprinted tale from DC's Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #4 (1972)
Writer "Dorothy Manning" was longtime DC writer/editor Dorothy Woolfolk. who worked in comics from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s.
Returning to the field in 1971, she took over editing all the romance titles from '71 to their demise in '74.
She also edited Superman's Girl Friend: Lois Lane, and, briefly, Wonder Woman, as she was transitioning back to being an Amazonian superheroine after losing her powers for a couple of years.
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