Showing posts with label Christopher Rule. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Rule. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Anything BUT Archie / Wedding Bliss WENDY PARKER "Getting Married!"

For over the past half-century, when you think "teen/young adult humor" in comics...you think Archie!
But, before the early 1960s, there was a lot more to the genre, as we'll show you, beginning with this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Wendy Parker #1 (1953)!
Wendy Parker first appeared in Atlas' Miss America #53 (1953), which already featured Patsy Walker and Hedy Wolfe (who had their own comics as well).
Wendy was a rational, logical, young woman, unlike the ditzes who tended to populate the genre.
As you've seen in this tale, it was literally everybody else in the strip who were...well...ditzes!
Wendy was immediately given her own book, which lasted only eight issues, but she continued to appear as a backup feature in other titles for another year, before finally disappearing.
And I do mean "disappearing"!
None of her stories has ever been reprinted!
Next Week:
Another Example of Humor That Doesn't Look Like Archie!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

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Monday, February 14, 2022

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "Man Who Changed!"

Here's a decidedly-different (and very sweet) take on Valentine's Day...

...with an ending you won't see coming!
Illustrated by Penciler Jay Scott Pike and inker Christopher Rule, this story from Atlas' Journey into Mystery #27 (1955) isn't a typical romance.
But sometimes we need to be reminded that "love" takes many forms from passionately-romantic to simply caring about someone else...and that everybody deserves to be loved!
Since we're posting today, there won't be a post on Wednesday, February 16th, but we will be back on February 23rd!
💕Happy Valentine's Day!💘

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

IDEAL LOVE AND ROMANCE "Forbidden Love"

Sometimes the opening caption says it all...
...as this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Ideal Love and Romances #5 (1949) demonstrates.
Both the writer and penciler are unknown, though the inker appears to be Christopher Rule.
BTW, though this issue was #5, it was actually the one and only issue of Timely's Ideal Love and Romance!
Before that, it was Ideal: a Classical Comic
With #6 it became simply Love Romances, and survived for one hundred issues as Timely became Atlas, until #106 (1963) around the time Atlas became Marvel!

Next Week:
We don't know yet what we'll present, but we can guarantee...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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