Happy 100th Birthday Stan Lee...Romance Comics Writer!

Besides tales of the super-powered denizens of the "Marvel Universe"...

...centennial birthday boy Stan (the Man) Lee scripted hundreds of romance comics stories...

...some featuring experimental storytelling techniques...

...some featuring people you didn't usually see in romance comics up to that time...

...and some that featured controversial political and social themes!

You can see all of Stan Lee's work we've re-presented on this blog (including the ones shown above) by clicking HERE!

Next Week:

You'll see the postponed conclusion to our "Hallmark Christmas Movie"-style tale, Sweet Santa!

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s!

"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.

LOVE STORY PICTURE LIBRARY "Sweet Santa" Part 3

When Last We Left Aspiring Songwriter Gay Marne...

...her failure to get her unpublished songs into the hands of the hot singing group The Beatsters did result in her meeting the charming, debonair Denny Nichols, who is sweeping her off her feet!

But, is the love-light in his eyes for her?

Or is there an ulterior motive in his heart...

And so the course of True Love goes horribly awry!

Can this budding relationship be salvaged?

Be Here Next Wednesday to Find Out!

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

LOVE STORY PICTURE LIBRARY "Sweet Santa" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...aspiring songwriter Gay Marne attempts to get her material into the hands of the the hot singing group The Beatsters by disguising herself as a Kris Kringle bringing presents backstage to their charity concert!
When the Santa who was hired to distribute gifts shows up, she's exposed as a fraud and flees, humiliated, but trips and falls due to the poor-fitting costume!

Looks and sounds absolutely blissful, doesn't it?

But, there's usually a secret that could totally screw up the situation!

Discover what it is...

NEXT WEEK!

LOVE STORY PICTURE LIBRARY "Sweet Santa" Part 1

Here's a never-published (in America) novel-length Christmas story...

...that reads (and feels) like a Hallmark Channel Christmas story!

Don't worry about that!

There's more to come, as you'll see...
Next Week!

For Christmas this year, we're doing things a little differently.

Instead of a bunch of unrelated Christmas/winter season tales, we're presenting a movie-length "graphic novel" from England.

The artist is Luis Garcia Mozos, a Spanish artist who also did a lot of work for British comics.
Sadly, the writer credit for this story from IPC's Love Story Picture Library 507 (1964) is unknown.

BTW, this title ran over 1600 issues by doing a half-dozen issues per month covering everything from holiday tales, to period pieces involving swashbucklers, to wartime sagas to contemporary stories!

They were as popular among British teen and young adult girls as Harlequin Romances were among Americans!

Amourous Education CANDY "Try-Out for Love!"

Remember this story about students crushing on a faculty member?

It's actually a reworking of an earlier tale by the same writer!

Jack Mendelsohn, the scripter of this never-reprinted tale from Quality's Candy #37 (1953) reused almost all of the plot in Tower's Tippy Teen #2 (1966)!
(Even the one-shot gym teacher's name is the same in both stories!)

Next Week:

We're Doing Another
Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie-Type Tale That'll Run through December...

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

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