WOMEN IN LOVE "I Was a Greenwich Village Character"

For over a century, NYC's Greenwich Village has been considered a creative utopia...

...and the unknown writer of this tale seems very familiar with the workings of both the commercial art and fine art communities that mingled in The Village!

This never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' 100-page one-shot Women in Love (1952) is incredibly-overwritten, as if it was a prose story that just happened to have illustrations!

Artist Gerald McCann had the unenviable task of trying to actually illustrate panels that are overflowing with captions and text!

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Anything BUT Archie! HOMER HOOPER "Twelve-Dollar Conundrum"

How Close Can You Come to Being an Archie Clone...without  Being Sued?

Atlas Comics sure gave it a shot with this series!

This typical tale from Atlas' Homer Hooper #3 (1953) was scripted by Stan Lee and illustrated by Hy Rosen.

Besides the blonde (who was well-off but not rich), the red-headed lead and the nasty frenemy, the series also featured a brunette, Homer's skinny best friend with a big nose, an athlete, brainy nerd, annoyed teachers and principal, etc.

Hy Rosen, who did a credible job as a Dan DeCarlo clone was one of the few artists working in the style who didn't end up at Archie Comics.

In the mid-1940s he added newspaper editorial cartooning to his already-busy schedule.

When comics almost died in the mid-1950s, Hy took on advertising storyboard work to take up the slack, creating the "White Tornado" ad campaign for Ajax Cleanser!

Hy's last work was for Harvey Comics in the early 1990s...on New Kids on the Block and Saved by the Bell comics!

Interestingly, his eulogy at his "home" newspaper, The Albany Times-Union, makes no mention of his comic book work!

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Yuletide Tidings SECRET HEARTS "So Little Time!" / FALLING IN LOVE "Perfect Gift"

Here's a bittersweet Yuletide tale about potential love that was published twice...

...first, half a century ago, in DC's Secret Hearts #87 (1963)...

...then, with the usual "updating" of fashions, hairstyles, and automobiles (and a title change) in DC's Falling in Love #128 (1972)!

Not every Christmas romance story ends like a Hallmark Channel Holiday Movie, even in the 1960s-70s!

Illustrated by veteran artist John Rosenberger, the name of the scripter of this melancholy tale is lost to the snows of time.

Merry Christmas!!!

Yuletide Tidings LITTLE WOMEN Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroines...

...we've seen the Christmastime trials and tribulations of the girls of the March family, as their father goes off to fight in the Civil War.

But now...

Beth Lives???

That's not exactly what happens in the book, though!

The original story ends, like this comic, with Beth surviving her bout with scarlet fever!

But the novel sold so well that the publisher demanded a sequel, which Alcott produced, unwillingly, under the title Good Wives!

Beth does die in the sequel, set several years in the future, as its' revealed her heart was weakened by her earlier illness!

Since the two tales were relatively-short, current publishers combine the two into a single volume!

And most adaptations modify the timeline so Beth passes away during her initial attack!

The adaptor of Louisa May Alcott's novel is unknown, but the art is co-penciled by Rich Buckler & Dick Giordano and inked by Giordano.

Merry Christmas!

Yuletide Tidings LITTLE WOMEN Part 1

It's hard to believe that, until the past couple of years...

...there was only one comics adaptation of the classic book Little Women!

And it was part of an early 1980s book-and-record set marketed towards pre-teens!

(No, there never was a Classics Illustrated version!)

Here's Part 1, with Part 2 to follow on Christmas Eve!

The adaptor of Louisa May Alcott's novel is unknown, but the art is co-penciled by Rich Buckler & Dick Giordano and inked by Giordano.

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