Business Before Love? TENDER LOVE STORIES "I Wanted the World" Part 1

When most women describe themselves as "hard-working"...

...I don't think this is quite what they mean!

But then, Crystal Larson isn't planning to go though the whole "nose to the grindstone" routine...

Looks like Crystal's planning to move up in the corporate structure...as we shall see...

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

Written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Jack Katz (with some redrawing by Skywald's art director Ross Andru along with inking by Mike Esposito and Frank Giacoia), this never-reprinted tale from Skywald's Tender Love Stories #2 (1971) shows a more 1940s-50s mindset than a tale written at the dawn of the Womens' Lib movement should!

BTW, our sincere thanks to the amazing Kracalactaka for the scans from this incredibly-hard to find comic!

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...fellow comics pro Steve Hogan aka Acid Keg Comics posted the original art of this romance comics cover attributed to John Romita Sr, which Romita himself notes "Done in the French Romance style"

I wondered why it would be referred to that way, so I dug up the story the cover promotes...

The illustrator, Enrique Montserratt, was actually a Spanish artist whose work appeared, thanks to multi-lingual syndication services, in most European countries...including France and England!
No doubt Romita (or someone else at Marvel) saw his French or British work and offered him an assignment of a Stan Lee script.
Sadly, whether it was due to distance, language difficulties, time constraints, or who-knows-what, this tale from Marvel's My Love #12 (1971) was Montserratt's only work for Marvel (or any American publisher!)

Getting back to the cover, here's the printed version...

Note the second circular caption on the right ("I Need Him--") and the surprinted text "Don't Dare Miss--" have apparently fallen-off the original art! 

When the tale and cover were reprinted a couple of years later in Marvel's Our Love Story #26 (1973), they were reprinted without the usual "updating" of hair and fashions!
In fact, the interior art wasn't even re-colored...which was even rarer!

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

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It's Culture Shock ...and More...When a Woman Raised in the Frenetic Urban Jungle...

...gets literally thrown, against her will, into the pastoral countryside!

Written by Dorothy Woolfolk and illustratd by Mort Leav, this never-reprinted story from Orbit's Love Diary #12 (1951) presented the point of view that dwellers of the crowded canyons of concrete were somehow "less" than the "salt of the earth" types who lived out among farm animals and miles of vegetation!

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We Dug Far and Wide to Find an Appropriate Romance Comic Story for the 4th of July...

...and what we came up with was...this!

Written (technically re-written) by Jeff Parker, this story appeared in Marvel Romance Redux: But I Thought He Loved Me (2006), which utilized art by penciler John Buscema and inker John Romita Sr for a cover-featured story that originally appeared in Marvel's My Love #2 (1969)...

Note that while the art is clearly Buscema and Romita Sr, it's unknown who wrote the tale!

Most believe it was original Editor Stan Lee.

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