Showing posts with label DC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DC. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Hot Snow HEART THROBS "Winter Meeting" & GIRLS" LOVE STORIES "That Special Moment"

 Here's a (Literally) Kool, Twice-Told Tale of the Flames of Love...

...kindled in the snow!







Appearing in DC's Heart Throbs #69 (1960-61), which came out in late autumn-early winter, the Tony Abruzzo & Bernard Sachs-illustrated story perfectly-captured the mood of the season!
When it was reprinted a decade later in DC's Girls' Love Stories #163 (1971), also in late autumn-early winter, it was "updated" with then-current hairstyles and fashions!
In addition, because the "Heart Throbs" header on each page was removed, the art was extended, resulting in some interesting layout reworking, like on the splash page!
But, unlike most "updated" reprints, some of this one's captions and dialogue balloons have been rewritten...








It's unknown why some of the dialogue and captions were re-written.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Divorce American Style GIRLS' LOVE STORIES "Child of Divorce"

We End the Month with a Case of a Product of a Broken Marriage... 

Cover art by Art Saaf & Vince Colletta
...and how it may affect the now-grown daughter's future!









Art for this never-reprinted story from DC's Girls' Love Stories #163 (1971) is by Tony DeZuniga.
The writer is unknown.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Prom Night: Dream or Nightmare? YOUNG ROMANCE "Price i$ Right!"

We started the month with Young Romance in the Golden Age (1940s)...

...and we end with it in the Bronze Age (1970s)!



Written by Irene Vartanoff and illustrated by Jack Abel, this never-reprinted story from DC's Young Romance #182 (1972) is a morality tale more than a romance, but it's told sincerely and effectively.
Next Week:
Normally, We'd Do Wedding Stories in June...
But Not This Year!
It's Gonna be Different!
And You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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by Irene Vartanoff
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Romance on the Range ROMANCE TRAIL "Untamed"

Can a Fine Filly Tame a Studly Stallion...

...or will a studly stallion tame a fine filly?
Enquiring minds want to know!






Though we don't know who scripted this never-reprinted story from DC's Romance Trail #1 (1949), we do know it was illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler, who later became a noted portrait painter,,,particularly of official Presidential portraits, as seen HERE!
Unlike many other comic book illustrators turned "fine artists", Kinstler has never been shy about his comic book work, which included every genre during a decade in the business!

Next week:
We wind up with a special multi-part, book-length Western Romance!
And we guarantee that...
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(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)
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Friday, August 2, 2024

Super-Love YOUNG HEROES IN LOVE "Your Lips! Your Eyes! Your Nuclear Breath Vision!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

(Actually, we haven't seen this scene...yet!)
A newly-assembled group of youthful heroes and heroines meet their final member and check out their new Arctic base of operations...particularly the living arrangements...
As I said last time, a "superhero soap opera".
You'll be seeing more of this ensemble of...shall we say, super "Friends" (remember this is the mid-1990s) in the near future.

Next Week:
Two Marvel Heroes Fight for the Hand of a Marvel Heroine!
Which Heroes?
Which Heroine?
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!
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