Showing posts with label St Patricks Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Patricks Day. Show all posts

Thursday, March 18, 2021

YOUNG ROMANCE "Bonnie Taylor, Airline Stewardess in Never Let Go!" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...before we continue, I gotta ask: "What's a 'flaming love story'?"
A year ago, airline stewardess Bonnie Taylor met a charming Irish fishing boat captain named Johnny Shannon during a layover in Ireland!
The two fell deeply, intensely, passionately in love...
Continuing her penchant for Celtic men with a supernatural bent, the very next issue finds Bonnie falling for a Scotsman from a Brigadoon-like town that appears for a few days every century, then disappears!
(I think I'll save that one for our annual Halloween blogathon in October!)
This never-reprinted tale from DC's Young Romance #135 (1965) was scripted by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by a guy who would jump from DC to Marvel only a few months later...replacing Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko on the flagship title and eventually becoming Marvel's art director for over 20 years....John Romita Sr!
DC's Silver-Age editors believed romance titles needed ongoing strips to keep the readers coming back and every book had one during the mid-1960s.
They ran from traditional-style soap operas (Reach for Happiness and 20 Miles to Heartbreak) to series about unmarried working women seeking love in the Big City or their workplace (Private Diary of Mary Robin RN and 3 Girls -- Their Lives -- Their Loves)!
The Bonnie Taylor, Airline Stewardess series ran from #126 to #139.

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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

YOUNG ROMANCE "Bonnie Taylor, Airline Stewardess in Never Let Go!" Part 1

For St Patrick's Day, we present the only Irish romance comic story I've ever found...
...from a series about a stewardess seeking love...all over the globe!
Actually, Part 2 will appear...tomorrow!
Bonnie Taylor, Airline Stewardess premiered in DC's Young Romance #126 (1963), featuring a character who fell deeply, intensely, seriously, in love with a different guy in every issue as she circled the globe!
Since this tale appeared in DC's Young Romance #135 (1964), less than a year after the strip's premiere, and Bonnie was ostensibly waiting out the year before marrying Johnny, what was she doing with all those other men between #127 and #135???
She wanted to marry a number of them!
Was this a script meant for a stand-alone story, but ended up being shoehorned into the series due to deadline problems?
Did Miss Taylor have Short Attention Span Disorder?
Or was Bonnie a Comics Code-approved nymphomaniac?
BTW, I wasn't intending to run Young Romance stories two weeks in a row, but I thought there'd be more romance stories set in Ireland than this lone tale...
Tomorrow:
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!
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