Super-Love WONDER WOMAN (and SUPERGIRL) "Fight to the Death!"

When Last We Left Our Heroines...

Cover art by Carmine Infantino and Irv Novick

The cover pretty much says it all.

Prepare for a classic Silver Age catfight!

Grok has never appeared again, not even in the many reboots that have occurred since Crisis on Infinite Earths...
Written by Bill Finger, penciled by Win Mortimer, and inked by Jack Abel, this tale has never been reprinted in color since it's first appearance in DC's Wonder Woman #177 (1969).
You may wonder about the tag line..."Turn the page for the real END!"
This is the page...

Art by Mike Sekowsky and Dick Giordano

...and the series was about to do the wildest reboot any comic had ever done up to that point!
My blog-buddy, Rip Jagger, can fill you in on that fascinating story, starting HERE!

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Super-Love WONDER WOMAN (and SUPERGIRL) "Captive Queens"

 We Have Already Seen...

Interplanetary conqueror Klamos wants a super-powered bride!

His troops have been sent to every corner of the universe to round up worthy candidates!
Having captured a de-powered Supergirl by temporarily making Earth's sun red instead of yellow, they now make their move on Wonder Woman...

"...such loyal friends?"

Except for a previous Brave & Bold tale (where they were hardly the best of friends), the two of them never met!

Either way, the mayhem concludes tomorrow!

Don't miss it!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Do!

This Bill Finger-scripted, Win Mortimer-penciled, and Jack Abel-inked tale, was totally-different from any of the previously-published Wonder Woman stories!
Not surprising, since none of these creatives had worked on her tales before!
Ironically, this story apparently served as a try-out for Mortimer and Abel, who became regular artists (along with already-established illustrator Kurt Schaffenberger) on Supergirl's two tales-per-issue run in Adventure Comics in 1969!

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Super-Love WONDER WOMAN "and Supergirl vs the Planetary Conqueror"

Love Takes Many Strange Forms as We See in this Tale...

...which has never been reprinted in color since its' first appearance in 1968!

A surprise you'll see...tomorrow!
You're Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

This tale from DC's Wonder Woman #177 (1968) is atypical for a number of reasons.

None of the supporting cast for either heroine appears!

Neither heroine appears in her secret identity!

In fact, neither heroine even shows up until page 5!

Plus, writer Bill Finger, penciler Win Mortimer, and inker Jack Abel weren't the regular creative staff for the book!

(That would be writer Robert Kanigher, penciler Irv Novick and inker Mike Esposito.)

It appears this was a "fill-in" meant to be used for either a blown deadline or (as it turned out in this case) a "space-saver" before a reboot involving a totally-new creative team!

We'll go into that matter at the end of the tale...

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Super-Spy-Love JET DREAM & HER STUNT GIRL COUNTERSPIES "Achilles Heel"

We Return to One of Our Most Popular Categories...

...with a cautionary tale about handsome men featuring an all-woman crimefighting team that predates Charlie's Angels by almost a decade!

This short tale by writer Dick Wood, penciler Mike Sekowsky, and inker Frank Giacoia is from Gold Key's Man from U.N.C.L.E. #13 (1967).

Jet Dream and Her StuntGirl CounterSpies appeared in 4-page tales in the middle of the book from #8 to #22, then appeared in a book-length story in a one-shot comic.

It's never been reprinted, and very few of the stories are available on the Net...until now!

We're re-presenting the entire series, beginning with the premiere currently at our "sister" blog Heroines!™. and crossing over with "brother" blog Crime & Punishment™!

Next Week: Another Tale of Romance (and/or Seduction) with an Amazing Woman Warrior!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

Divorce, American-Style BRIDES IN LOVE "Day of Divorce!"

June is the Month for Weddings, Right?

Art by Dick Giordano

Not here, it ain't!

According to myth, marrying between June 1st and June 20th would lead to everlasting love, since the Roman goddess Juno (Queen of the Gods) celebrated her festival during this time!
Normally, we'd do happy wedding tales in June.
But this year, we're feeling cranky and contrary!
So, let the never-reprinted recriminations begin...

Will other stories this month end as happily as this one by writer Joe Gill, penciler Joe Sinnott, and inker Vince Colletta from Charlton's Brides in Love #36 (1963)?

You really believe we're going to tell you?

Not with three more posts about divorce from the 40s to the 70s to go this month!

Next Week:

We Can Guarantee that...

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Prom Night: Dream or Nightmare? TEEN-AGE ROMANCE "When a Teen-Ager Falls in Love!"

It's Said That Girls Mature Emotionally Faster than Boys...

...so how does a 15 year-old sophomore get the attention of an 18 year-old senior?

(And yes, the prom is an integral part of this story!)

As you can see, a prom does play a critical part in this tale!

We know this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Teen-Age Romance #78 (1960) was penciled by Dick Giordano and inked by Vince Colletta.

But, the plotter/scripter is, sadly, unknown.

We speculate that the book's editor, Stan Lee, plotted it, with his brother, Larry Lieber the likely scripter!
And, you'll note that last week's tale was from the 1940s, with this one from the 1960s!
Did we leave out the 1950s?
Heck and gosh, no!
The 1950s prom tale will appear next week, with the 1970s tale winding up the month the week after!
Why aren't we running them in chronological order?
Be here next week to find out!

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Super-Love BRAVE AND THE BOLD "In the Coils of the CopperHead" Conclusion

When Last We Left our Horny Heroines and Hapless Hero...

Batman's somewhat-silly plan to make the crafty CopperHead believe he was leaving a near-priceless artifact unguarded due to being distracted by Wonder Woman and Batgirl fighting over his affections has backfired spectacularly as both super-heroines are now totally-enamored of the Caped Crusader and the villain has made off with his prize!

I'd like to believe that writer Bob Haney was given the concept by editor Murray Boltanoff, not that Haney himself came up with the plot.
Note: editor Boltanoff was not a "continuity cop".
Many of the characters appearing in his books acted out of character from time to time!
This was artist Bob Brown's first time drawing Batman, obviously impressing artist-turned Editorial Director Carmine Infantino enough to move him over to the Batman and Robin strip in Detective Comics when the Bob Kane Studio's contract ended in early 1968!
BTW, Brown was the illustrator of the Detective Comics story that revamped Batman from campy tv-era Bright Knight back to the original concept of nocturnal Dark Knight as shown HERE!
Brown stayed on the title until he left DC in 1973, going to Marvel, where he ended up on Daredevil and the Black Widow a few months after the tale we told last week was published!
Ironically, Brown also illustrated one part of the two-issue introduction of Marvel's villainous CopperHead during this run, thereby being one of only three artists to create same-named (but not same-powered) villains at both DC and Marvel!

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Another Tale of Super-Love from Somewhere in the Multiverse!

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

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