FALLING IN LOVE "I Was a Prisoner of Love!"

It's a new month...and a new topic for the month!

Read the story and see if you can guess what type of tale we'll be presenting for the rest of the month!

(Hint: It ain't what you'll think!)

Did you guess the genre for the month from this never-reprinted, cover-featured story from DC's Falling in Love #71 (1964), illustrated by penciler Mike Sekowsky and inkers Joe Giella and Frank Giacoia?

It ain't show business romance!

(Although that's a whole category perfect for another month!)

It ain't men who use women and then dump them!

It ain't women who let themselves be treated like doormats!

Actually, the answer is purely in the (admittedly-metaphorical) title!

We're doing "Love is a Prison" in September...which will feature one (or both) of the protagonists incarcerated!

Yes, this story is a bit of a cheat, but the tale is so delightfully-overwrought and the cover was sooo kool, that we wanted to find some reason to post it!
And you did enjoy it, didn't you?

Forgive us?

Next Week...

One (or Both) of Our Lovers is Imprisoned!

We Can Guarantee That...

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

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We Have Already Seen...

...before the Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985, there were two Supermen on parallel worlds, one who began his career just before World War II on "Earth-Two", and one who began his career in the late 1950s on "Earth-One"!

This is the tale of the Earth-Two version, who has just married Lois Lane...

The Mr and Mrs Superman strip, detailing the couple's adventures, ran for several years until Crisis on Infinite Earths merged all the parallel worlds in the DC Universe into one, rebooting the comic publisher's continuity and eliminating various duplicates of characters...except the Earth-Two Superman and Lois, who survived in a "pocket universe"!
But that's a story for another time (and blog)...

And now, we're going "fanboy/fangirl" with a few Easter Eggs...

The Earth-Two Superman's "different" chest insignia was actually used in the 1940s on a promotional painting done to publicize the Adventures of Superman radio show...

...rendered by pulp cover artist H J Ward, whose previous superhero credits included promotional art for the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet radio shows!

Villain Colonel (Edmond H) Future was a tribute to Golden/Silver Age pulp and comic book writer Edmond Hamilton, who, besides introducing a number of characters into the DC Universe, created the pulp sci-fi hero Captain Future...

...whose premiere issue's cover was one of the featured items in Sheldon and Leonard's apartment on The Big Bang Theory!

The robots Superman stopped in Part One of our story were based on the ones seen in the 1940s Fleischer Brothers' Superman cartoon "Mechanical Monsters"...which also showed the very first time Superman changed into costume in a phone booth!

Wow, it felt good getting that out of my system!

Next Week...

More SUPER Love!

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

Wedding Bliss & Super-Love ACTION COMICS "Superman Takes a Wife" Part 1

You may think you know the tale of Clark (Superman) Kent and Lois Lane, but..

...if you're under 50, it's doubtful you know the story of this Clark (Superman) Kent and Lois Lane...

You know how they say "The honeymoon's over"?

Well, it gets a whole new meaning...

TOMORROW

Don't Miss It, Because

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Do!

There are several Easter Eggs in this part of the story, but we're not going "fanboy/fangirl" on you and explain them until tomorrow...with one exception...

For those of you born after 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths, here's a crib sheet explaining a bit more about the Clark and Lois whose tale you've been reading...

(Click on the page to enlarge)

BTW, when this tale was published, the Golden Age original Superman had been appearing for a couple of years in DC's All-Star Comics as an active member of the Justice Society in stories set in the present day (1978)!
And, this Clark was now the editor of the Daily Star...

(Technically, that's not a separate Easter Egg, so there...)