Love in 3-D (sort of) LOVELORN "Come Back My Love!" in TrueVision!

You won't need red/blue 3-D glasses to read this  3-D comic story...

...behind this Ogden Whitney cover, because it's not red/blue 3-D, but an idea to simulate 3-D called...

While other companies were doing actual 3-D, ACG decided to save a few bucks and also tout the fact their "3-D" was still FULL color!
And now, on with the story...

It's a clever concept, but I can see how it would become irritating on an ongoing basis.

The big problem is that the cheap "newsprint" paper was never meant to have so much solid black ink on the pages, resulting in blotchy backgrounds!

Art on this never-reprinted story from ACG's Lovelorn #51 (1954) was by Edmond Good, who worked in various genres for DC, Fox, Nedor/Standard, Fawcett, and ACG, among others.

He left comics to become the Art Director for Tupperware from the mid-1950s until his retirement in the mid-1970s!

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Advice d'Amour PERSONAL LOVE "Sob Sister's Scandal"

What Happens When a Love Advisor Gives You the Wrong  Advice...Deliberately?

This never-reprinted story from Eastern's Personal Love #10 (1951) give us the answer!









Bill (Sub-Mariner) Everett illustrated (and perhaps scripted) this titillating tale filled with twists and turns!

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Reel Romance LOVE DIARY "Movie Crazy!"

A Couple of Years Ago...

...we presented a Silver Age story about a young lady who was so obsessed with movies that it interfered with her social life!
Now here's how they handled a similar situation in the 1950s...

Written by Dorothy Woolfolk and illustrated by Eddie Robbins, this never-reprinted story from Orbit's Love Diary #4 (1950) featured two supporting characters (Sally and Rick) from an already-ongoing feature starring another couple (Nurse Victoria Sage and Doctor Jim Stanton) whose premiere tale we ran HERE during COVID!

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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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Halloween HeartBreak MENACE "Fake!"

 Remember the old adage "Don't judge a book by it's cover"?

 Here's the codicil; "It goes both ways"!

Illustrated by Al Eadeh, this tale from Atlas' Menace #10 (1954) follows the classic trope of golddigger tripped up, not by her own greed, but by the fact her husband (who still loves her) is not even human!

Remember, the target audience for horror (as opposed to romance) comics was 8-14 year old boys, to whom girls were "yukky".

And for whom Lois Lane , the nosy reporter who was always trying to either expose Superman's secret identity or trick the Man of Steel into marrying her, was the typical woman!

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