Prom Night: Dream or Nightmare? JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Jet Jaunt"

It's Prime Time for Prom time...Even If It's in the Future...as Seen from the 1950s!

(We didn't skip the 1950s, just moved it down the line)

But, in teen humor comic books (even set in the future), things never go smoothly!

 

OK, maybe it's just as well that we of the real 21st Century still don't have flying cars...

As you might have guessed, Archie artist Dan DeCarlo was the illustrator for this tale from Standard Comics' Jetta of the 21st Century #5 (1952), which was actually her first issue!

(Issues 1-4 were a romance comic called Today's Romance!)

Next week:

Our Final Prom Story, Set in the Swinging '70s! And we can guarantee that...

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

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Dan DeCarlo's Jetta

Romance on the Range I MET A HANDSOME COWBOY Conclusion

It's All Come Down to This...

...the long-feuding Kilgores and Considines are now united against a common foe, who threatens the current generation of both families...

Let's rejoin the action as Martha Kilgore searches for the captured Slade Considine...

The final page was on the inside back cover of the comic, so it's in black & white, like the character intro above, which is from the inside front cover!

BTW, that final page would've been the final page of the paperback version of this project!

If you look at the pages, you can see how the panels were designed for this format, then cut-and-pasted into standard comic book format.
Each comic book page contains what would've been four pages of paperback comics!

Who says comics ain't educational?

Be Here Next Week as We Present a New Theme for the Month of May!

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

Romance on the Range I MET A HANDSOME COWBOY Part 3

We Have Already Seen...

...the above cute couple, Martha Kilgore and Slade Considine, are falling for each other.

Their families hate each other.

Plus, there are others, with their own motives, involved.

Here's the scorecard...

The Kilgore women have figured out the situation and now move to resolve it, by unifying the long-feuding families against a common foe...

Horses are amazingly-perceptive creatures, as Martha will discover...

Tomorrow

...in the conclusion of this book-length story!

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

Romance on the Range I MET A HANDSOME COWBOY Part 2

I'm Going to Let the Comic Itself Explain What's Going On...

...wow, that was convenient!

One minor point it left out was that Slade was ambushed!

It's interesting to note the women are the ones deducing and assessing what's going on, seeing through the men's schemes!

These ain't no helpless bimbos!

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

Romance on the Range I MET A HANDSOME COWBOY Part 1

We wind up this month with a book-length romance...

...that was originally-intended for an actual paperback book instead of a comic!

Doesn't look good for Slade, does it?

To Be Continued, Tomorrow!

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

Published as Dell's Four Color Comics #324 (1951), the book-length tale was meant to be the third in Dell's experimental graphic novel Told in Pictures paperback series.
Two previous books, Twice Loved, and Four Frightened Women were published in 1950, and I Met... was advertised as the next one.
But, apparently due to poor sales, it was reformatted to comic book format instead!
The story was an adaptation of a serial from a 1943 Dell pulp magazine, Ranch Romances, called "Clouds Over the Chupaderos" by prolific writer Elsa Barker.
It has a more "adult", almost B-movie feel to it.
Though the serial ran four issues, it was never cover-featured, or even mentioned on the cover!
Both the writer and artist(s) of the adaptation are unknown.