Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Beach Read SECRETS OF SINSTER HOUSE "Death at Castle Dunbar" Chapter 3

..."Mike" Hollis, investigating the alleged suicide/accidential death of Valerie Dunbar, has discovered evidence Valerie was, in fact, murdered!
But why?
And why is the murdered woman's ghost wandering the Scottish castle?
Will "Mike" die the way Valerie allegedly-did?
Find out...
Penciler Mike Sekowsky should be well-known to readers of this blog.
Besides being a prolific contributor to romance comics at numerous companies, he also handled the editing/writing/drawing of radical revamps of both of DC's major superheroines; Wonder Woman...
...and Supergirl (in Adventure Comics)...
...during the same time period he penciled this Gothic romance tale!
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Beach Read SECRETS OF SINSTER HOUSE "Death at Castle Dunbar" Chapter 2

...what does "Mike" Hollis, investigating the allegedly-"accidental" death of Valerie (who married into the Dunbar family), see?
"Accident"?
There seem to be a lot of them at Castle Dunbar!
Learn more about this one...
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Monday, July 30, 2018

Beach Read SECRETS OF SINSTER HOUSE "Death at Castle Dunbar" Chapter 1

It's not Wednesday yet...
..but this book-length, five-part Gothic tale will take all week to tell, so let's dive in to this year's Beach Read...
...IT'S...!!!
DC's Sinister House of Secret Love transitioned from Gothic romance into straight horror title Secrets of Sinister House with this issue, #5 (1972), utilizing this already-completed tale as the book's contents.
The next issue went full "horror mode" with scary tales, snarky hosts, etc.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

TENDER LOVE STORIES "My Kind of Music!"

Motorcycle, guitar, long hair, fringed jacket...
...yep, this Don Heck/Joe Sinnott cover superbly-portrays a 1970's version of a "bad boy"!
Long-time pros Jack Katz, Werner Roth, and John Tartaglone illustrated this never-reprinted tale from Skywald's Tender Love Stories #1 (1971).
Next Week:
It's our annual Beach Read blogathon as we present a book-length Gothic comic...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

A MOON, A GIRL...ROMANCE! "Summer Love"

Before EC Comics became (in)famous for doing horror comics...
...they covered every genre in comics, including romance!
They just didn't do all of them as well as horror...
Illustrated by "Ghastly" Graham Ingels, this never-reprinted, tacky tale from EC's A Moon, A Girl...Romance #11 (1949) is, perhaps, the perfect example of why EC is not known for its' romance comics.
That's not quite accurate...EC's post-horror comics title Confessions Illustrated was a first-rate b/w romance graphic magazine (not comic), targeted at the late-teen/young adult audience!
But it didn't sell, and, like the rest of the Picto-Fiction line is incredibly hard to find today!
Next Week:
We don't know yet what we'll present, but we can guarantee...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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EC Complete Picto-Fiction Library
(includes all 3 issues of Confessions Illustrated [including the never-published final issue]
Note: The Confessions Illustrated volume is unavailable seperately from the set)