Showing posts with label Manny Stallman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manny Stallman. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Amourous Education CAMPUS ROMANCES "Love was My College Major"

It's time for your lesson in love...
...from a writer who takes the "book" part of "comic book" to the extreme!
Considering letterers have always been among the poorest-paid of the various contributors to comics, I wouldn't be surprised if whoever did this job said "The hell with it! I'd rather dig ditches. It'll be easier!" after finishing the assignment.
The art for this tale from Avon's Campus Romances #2 (1949) by Manny Stallman and John Guinta tries to compete with the text, but some panels look like the illustration was just an afterthought.
The script, by an author whose name is lost in the mists of history, reads like a radio soap opera, with an incredible amount of "internal monologue" by Karen.
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..
 featuring the cover from the issue of Campus Romances this story is taken from!

Thursday, December 16, 2021

HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "Too Young" 2.0

Yesterday, we presented the first version of this tale with a Christmas Eve ending...

...but when it was reprinted several years later, it was spotlighted not only with a cover by Al Avison...
...but a new contents page illustration by Doug (Jonny Quest) Wildey!
Now, note the alterations to both story and art...courtesy of the newly-formed Comics Code Authority! (You did note their stamp on the cover?)
Start with covering Wendy's cleavage...
More cleavage-covering and a rewrite of "suggestive" word balloons in panels 5 and 7.
Caption rewrite in panel 1.
"Suggestive" word balloon in panel 4 rewritten.
No changes on this page!
Guess the censor took a cigarette/coffee break!
It's fascinating to see what the Code considered licentious back when this story was reprinted in Harvey's Hi-School Romance #61 (1957)

Next week:
We DO Know What We'll Present!
An ACTUAL Christmas Romance Tale!

And, We Guarantee That...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "Too Young"

We know, this doesn't look like a Christmas story...

...but we assure you, it does end up as one!
Underage girl weds older guy.
She has angst about not being able to do the stuff teen-agers do any more!
They break up!
Then she learns she's pregnant!
And they reunite on Christmas Eve!
It's a poignant tale with a happy ending that could occur!
So why, when this story from Harvey's Hi-School Romances #29 (1954) was reprinted a couple of years later, did they alter it?
Find out...