Showing posts with label Lev Gleason. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lev Gleason. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

BOY MEETS GIRL "Kind of Man I'd Like to Marry" & "Will You Be a Bride...or an Old Maid?"

You thought Cosmopolitan had a monopoly on these kind of quizzes?
Art by Curt Swan and ?
They were a popular feature of romance comics as well, as these pages from Lev Gleason's Boy Meets Girl #2 (1950) and #20 (1952) show!
And to help you avoid ending up an "old maid", the editors thoughtfully provided...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

LOVERS' LANE "Heartbreak in My Search for Love"

We've spent over a month with the Gothic and supernatural...
...let's get back to the basics of True Love...like kissing and crying and betrayal!
The writer of this stereotypical (but entertaining) tale from Lev Gleason's Lovers' Lane #2 (1949) is unknown, but the art is by Fred Kida with an uncredited assist from George Tuska.
Kida worked steadily in both comic books and newspaper strips from the early 1940s through the mid-1980s, including stints on Flash Gordon, Amazing Spider-Man, and, most famously, AirBoy!
Next week:
We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)
And now a word from out sponsor...