Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Super-Love MIGHTY THOR "To Become an Immortal!" Conclusion


...Thor has brought his mortal love, Jane Foster, to Asgard to "meet the family" and get All-Father Odin's approval for marriage!
However, things are not going as well as hoped...

Though the romance between Jane and Thor ended at this point, it wasn't truly over (as explained HERE)!
Eventually, Jane became the Goddess of Thunder by wielding Mjonir!
But before that momentous event occurred in the Marvel Universe, it happened in an "imaginary story" that was never part of official Marvel history...though it was published by Marvel!
You can see that story HERE!
Next Week:
Another super-romance (with a wedding) featuring the most famous couple in comic book history!

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Super-Love MIGHTY THOR "To Become an Immortal!" Part 1

From Mighty Thor's introduction in Marvel's Journey into Mystery #83 (1962)...

...one of the ongoing plotlines was Dr Don Blake aka Thor's love for Nurse Jane Foster.

It was a classic case of unrequited love, complicated by the fact that Thor's father (Odin, ruler of the Norse gods) disapproved of the romance, believing the mortal woman was "unworthy" of his immortal son!
Thor eventually revealed his secret to Jane, and, in Marvel's Mighty Thor #136 (1966), brought her to Asgard to meet the family...
This certainly takes meeting the prospective in-laws to a new level of stress!

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Wedding Bliss AGONIZING LOVE & "Hurry Up Marriage!"

This absolutely wonderful trade paperback about romance comics...

... features a crying bride on the cover from a cover illustrated by the legendary Jack Kirby from the groundbreaking comic he co-created with Joe Simon, Young Romance!
But here's the kicker...there's no story inside to go with the cover!
Simon and Kirby often would do a cover concept first, then do a story based on it!
Sometimes they'd come up with a cover idea...but then couldn't expand it into a tale they were creatively-satisfied with!
But, the cover was pretty good, and they didn't want it to go to waste, so they'd use it anyway!
This situation existed with all three of the Simon & Kirby Prize Comics romance titles; Young Romance, Young Love, and Young Brides!
Here's another cover involving a bride and groom that didn't have a story attached...
Here's a generic one that could've been (and was) used on any of the series...
And here's one that did have a related story in the issue...
BTW, note the differences, including the fact there's no gruff Old West-style sheriff in the tale below!
Cover art is by John Prentice, and the story art is by Bob McCarty, both working from Jack Kirby layouts!
Next Week...
We return to Super-Love with a special look at the soap opera-style Mighty Thor/Jane Foster romance!
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Wedding Bliss STORIES OF ROMANCE "A Man to Marry"

They look like the perfect couple, don't they?

Wait until the end of this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Stories of Romance #12 (1957), dear reader!
Didn't see that one coming, did you?
The scripter is unknown, the inker is Vince Colletta, and the unknown ghost-penciler appears to be Joe Sinnott!

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Wedding Bliss GIRLS' LOVE STORIES "Marriage without LOVE!"

The course of True Love is rarely smooth...

...especially in romance comics!
Illustrated by romance comics regulars Jay Scott Pike and Win Mortimer, this tale from DC's Girls' Love Stories #121 (1966) combined almost all of the reasons I can imagine for a bride having "cold feet"!
(Note, my niece's wedding last Saturday went off perfectly!
No "cold feet"!)
Sadly, the scripter of this tale is unknown, but the odds are the writer was male.
(There were very few female comic book scribes in the Silver Age.)

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(BTW, note she's wearing a wedding dress!)