SOUL LOVE "Dedicated Nurse"

At long last, we present the final story...

...from Jack (King) Kirby's Soul Love!

Note...it's somewhat "politically incorrect"...but not for the reason you might think!

(Hey, look!

A "Kirby Quote"!)

You'll note pages 5 and 6 aren't as "clean" as the other pages, which are scanned from the actual original art!

They're scanned from photocopies, which are the only versions I could acquire, but they're legible enough to "fill out" the tale!
(Oh, man!
More "Kirby Quotes"!)

Written/penciled/edited by Jack Kirby and inked by Vince Colletta, the story takes the typical attitude of the period about overweight women, though Aleda's not actually obese.

(In fact, I was involved with a woman who had a similar body type, which I found extremely-appealing!)

You can read other Soul Love tales we've presented HERE.
Soul Love would have been the second romance comic oriented to a Black audience.

The first was the four-issue 1950s series Negro Romances, which we covered HERE.

Thanks to Kracalactaka for the scans.

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but we can guarantee that...

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Dingbat Love

(covering Jack Kirby's unique and unpublished projects, including Soul Love and True-Life Divorce!)

SOUL LOVE "Teacher"

From one of the two creatives who invented romance comics...

...comes this, sadly, never-published tale which would've appeared in a magazine entitled Soul Love, if DC had the guts to publish it!

(Note: this post uses scans of photocopies of the original art, so the images are not as crisp as we usually run.

But we felt the historical significance of the story warranted running what was available!)

Written and penciled by Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta
You can read other Soul Love tales we've presented HERE , HERE, and HERE.
Soul Love would have been the second romance comic oriented to a Black audience.

The first was the 1950s series Negro Romance, which we covered HERE.

Next Week:

We don't know what we'll present..yet,
but we can guarantee that...

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
And now a word from our sponsor...
Please Support True Love Comics Tales

Visit Amazon and Order...

Dingbat Love
(covering Jack Kirby's unique and unpublished projects, including Soul Love and True-Life Divorce!)

SOUL LOVE "Old Fires!"

This is the only complete story from Soul Love that was ever published...

...appearing full original art-sized in in Privateer Press' tabloid-sized Jack Kirby Masterworks (1979)

Written and penciled by Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta
You can read other Soul Love tales we've presented HERE and HERE.
Soul Love would have been the second romance comic oriented to a Black audience.

The first was the 1950s series Negro Romance, which we covered HERE.

Next Week:

We don't know what we'll present..yet,
but we can guarantee that...

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
And now a word from our sponsor...
Please Support True Love Comics Tales

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Stand tall and proud with a Lichtenstein-style comic book image of lovers in a romantic clinch!

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SOUL LOVE "Diary of the Disappointed Doll"

We presented one story from this never-published 1970s title last year...

...and here's another never-seen story,  also scanned and presented from the original art!

Written and penciled by Jack Kirby, inked by Tony DeZuniga.
Since the magazine was b/w, the art would be photostatted, then gray wash tones would be added as shown in this printed page from The ButterFly, a strip about the first Black superheroine (predating Storm of the X-Men) that appeared in the 1971 b/w magazine Hell-Rider.
You can read about her HERE.

Soul Love would have been the second romance comic oriented to a Black audience.

The first was the 1950s series Negro Romance, which we covered HERE.

Visit

 Adibah's Funky Pop-Art Stuf

UrbanWear with a "Black is Beautiful" flair!

Stand tall and proud with a Lichtenstein-style comic book image of lovers in a romantic clinch!

A Pop Art classic with a Black twist!

SOUL LOVE "Fears of a Go-Go Girl!"

Jack Kirby (along with Joe Simon) created the romance comics genre in 1947...

Cover art by Jack Kirby for the unpublished Soul Love #1

In 1971, Kirby pitched the idea for a new line of b/w comic magazines for an older (15-30 year old) audience which would include two romance series; True Divorce Cases and Soul Love.
Complete first issues were written and drawn, but the publisher killed most of the the books before they went to press.
Only two titles ever saw print: Spirit World (psychic phenomena) and In the Days of the Mob (about 1920s-30s gangsters).

Here's one of the stories from Soul Love, scanned from the original art...

Written and penciled by Jack Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta.
Since the magazine was b/w, the art would be photostatted, then gray wash tones would be added as shown in this printed page from The ButterFly, a strip about the first Black superheroine (predating Storm of the X-Men) that appeared in the 1971 b/w magazine Hell-Rider.
You can read about her HERE.

Soul Love would have been the second romance comic oriented to a Black audience.

The first was the 1950s series Negro Romance, which we covered HERE.

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Visit

 Adibah's Funky Pop-Art Stuf

UrbanWear with that Black is Beautiful flair!

Stand tall and proud with a Lichtenstein-style comic book image of lovers in a romantic clinch!

A Pop Art classic with a Black twist!