Wednesday, July 29, 2020

AGAR-AGAR "Fairest of Them All"

After Agar-Agar bedded superhero SuperBat, causing him to literally evaporate from exhaustion...
...well, we're off on another almost totally-unrelated storyline!
Surprised?
This story from New England Library's Dracula #8 (1971) was written by Luis Gasca under the pen-name Sadko  and illustrated in a Peter Max-esque style by Alberto Solsona.
It's the second of four tales unseen by American audiences, since Warren Magazines reprinted only the first six issues of Dracula in their 1972 trade paperback.
But you'll see the remaining stories on alternate weeks, rotating with never-reprinted Silver Age romances of Supergirl!
It'll be a groovy trip, baby!
Next Week
Another Never-Reprinted Super-Love Story with Kara Zor-El!
She's been jilted, rejected, and dumped!
But, payback's a super-bitch!
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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Super-Love with SUPERGIRL "Jilting of Supergirl" Part II: Wedding Bells for Supergirl

...(it's Supergirl, in case you haven't guessed!)
Kara (in her secret identity as college student Linda Danvers) offers a sympathetic shoulder to Lois Lane, who fears Superman will marry a super-powered woman instead of than her!
The disguised Girl of Steel knows that circumstance won't ever happen to her.
But, she finds even the hottest young college men leave her unimpressed and bored!
A couple of days after saving the crew of a damaged burrowing vehicle from an underground race, a new student, Steve Robbins, appears at Stanhope College!
Handsome beyond belief and incredibly-smart (he even corrects teachers), the transfer student enchants the disguised superheroine!
That weekend, the football team's newest player (guess who?) displays his mettle...
Written by Robert Kanigher, penciled by Win Mortimer and inked by Jack Abel, this never-reprinted story from DC's Adventure Comics #385 (1969) is yet another tale of Supergirl falling madly in love (and even ready to marry the guy) in a dozen pages!
But she isn't always a love-sick sad sack.
In two weeks, you'll see what happens when the Maid of Might is the dumper...instead of the dumpee!
But Next Week:
Another Never-Seen-in-America Tale of Intergalactic Love...or is It Just Lust...with Agar-Agar!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Super-Love with SUPERGIRL "Jilting of Supergirl" Part I

Talk about "spoilers"...

...but if this doesn't tug on your heartstrings (and make you wonder "why"???), nothing will!





Is Steve too good to be true?
What is his startling secret...and how will it affect the Girl of Steel?
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

AGAR-AGAR "Even Heroes Get Tired"

...oh, c'mon!
You really think there's a coherent narrative link in this strip?
So that's why Clark and Lois never...you know...until recently!
This story from New England Library's Dracula #7 (1971) was written by Luis Gasca under the pen-name Sadko  and illustrated in a Peter Max-esque style by Alberto Solsona.
It's the first of four tales unseen by American audiences, since Warren Magazines reprinted only the first six issues of Dracula in their 1972 trade paperback.
But you'll see the other three on alternate weeks, rotating with never-reprinted Silver Age romances of Supergirl!
It'll be a groovy trip, baby!
Next Week
Another Never-Reprinted Super-Love Story with Kara Zor-El!
And We Guarantee...
You'll Cry If You Miss It!
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Thursday, July 9, 2020

Super-Love with SUPERGIRL "Heroine Haters" Conclusion

...depressed over her Stanhope College classmates finding boyfriends using computer dating, Kara uses the Fortress of Solitude's Super-Computer to find the perfect mate for her.
While it indicates that Volar of the planet Torma is perfect for her, the Girl of Steel's cousin warns her against getting her hopes up.
Supergirl travels to Torma and discovers that women there are treated as 2nd-class citizens, and that she's considered an amusing freak!
But will love for the handsome and dynamic Volar, whose respect and admiration for her is far different from any of the other men of Torma, enable her to overcome such blatant prejudice?
Too bad DC never followed-up on the saga of the first transvestite super-heroine.
Note: There was a transvestite super-hero in the 1940s...the original Cat-Man!
Written by Cary Bates, penciled by Win Mortimer and inked by Jack Abel, this cover-featured tale from DC's Adventure Comics #384 (1969) would probably have a much different ending if created today!
There are now numerous gay characters (both main and supporting) in comics and comics-oriented media, so the idea of two heroines (or heroes) being involved would hardly be shocking to the audience...
Next Week...

We're alternating the Supergirl entries this summer with the remaining Agar-Agar tales...which were never published in America!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Super-Love with SUPERGIRL "Heroine Haters" Part 1

It's going to be a super-summer here at True Love Comics Tales as we present...
...the never-reprinted Silver Age romances of Kara Zor-El aka Linda Danvers aka Supergirl!
Actually, you'll have to tune in tomorrow, when we present the conclusion of this...unique...relationship!
Written by Cary Bates, penciled by Win Mortimer and inked by Jack Abel, this cover-featured tale from DC's Adventure Comics #384 (1969) would probably have a much different ending if created today!
Curious?
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Love in the Time of Covid-19 LOVE DIARY "I was Branded a Flirt, a Nurse Confesses..."

For our final (for now) disease-themed story...
...we present an intense, never-reprinted one from Orbit's Love Diary #1 (1949) which takes a twist you probably don't expect!!
That "life together" continued for five more issues of Love Diary, along with a two-story spinoff featuring supporting character Sally Weeks!
Vicky didn't end up with the wholesome "boy next door" doctor as you might expect, but the glamourous, slightly-arrogant studmuffin!
But, that doesn't mean the course of true love is without some rough patches, as you'll see when we continue this series in our "brother" RetroBlog Medical Comics and Stories!
Next Week
We Begin Our Super-Summer Blogathon featuring...
...Never-Reprinted Romances of Supergirl!
You'll Cry If You Miss It!
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