Showing posts with label Ross Andru. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ross Andru. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 9 Part 2

Rita Phillips, a girl from the "wrong side of the tracks" is engaged to upper-crust Doctor Greg Marsh.
But Rita's sleazy former paramour (and employer), nightclub owner Ray Silva has decided to try to reclaim the woman he still desires...
Note the sales figures at the bottom of the page.
Secret Hearts was selling over 200,000 copies per issue!
Today, only three to five comics (out of a couple of hundred) break the 200,000 copy level on a consistant basis.
Comics in 2015 average 50,000 per issue...or less!
(Secret Hearts was considered a middle to lower-selling title in 1967!)
How times have changed...
Be back next month as we continue romance comics' longest-running soap opera!
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?)
This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #118 (1967) was written by Jack Miller, with layouts and pencils by several different people including Jay Scott Pike, John Rosenberger, Jim Mooney, Ross Andru, and Gene Colan with primary inks by Jim Mooney and additional inks by a couple of others I can't identify right off.
And now a word from out sponsor...

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 9

Even as soap operas disappear from TV screens...
...we have a heck of one in graphic novel form!
Let's reintroduce the cast, catch up on doings in Danville Corners, and jump back into the narrative...
 Next Week...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)
This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #118 (1967) was written by Jack Miller, with layouts and pencils by several different people including Jay Scott Pike, John Rosenberger, Jim Mooney, Ross Andru, and Gene Colan with primary inks by Jim Mooney and additional inks by a couple of others I can't identify right off.
And now a word from out sponsor...

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

HEART & SOUL "Gigolo"

When you play at love, you may get played...
...as this never-reprinted sob-story from Mikeross' Heart & Soul #1 (1954) proves.
Pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito.
The writer is unknown.
The team of Andru & Esposito worked on numerous projects, including a long run on Wonder Woman in the 1960s.
They also had their own comics company in the early 1950s called MikeRoss Publications which published only four titles, three of which were romance comics!
You can see other tales from the same title, Heart & Soul, that this story appeared in, HERE, HERE, and HERE!

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...

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

ROMANTIC HEARTS "HeartBreak"

When a woman is involved with three men, it'll probably end up in...
...for someone, as this never-reprinted story from Master's Romantic Hearts V2 #6 (1954) demonstrates.
But, what about poor, faithful George Franklin?
Pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito.
The writer is unknown.
The team of Andru & Esposito worked on numerous projects including a long run on Wonder Woman in the 1960s.
They also had their own comics company in the early 1950s called MikeRoss Publications which published only four titles, three of which were romance comics!
You can see tales from one of them, Heart & Soul, HERE, HERE, and HERE!
It's possible that this story was meant for Heart & Soul, but since the book was cancelled, it ended up here.

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...