Wednesday, April 18, 2012

COWGIRL ROMANCES "Send Back My Love"

Return to the Old West, where men were real men, women were real women...
...and, in those days before e-mail (or even a telephone), a letter to one's true love could take days...or weeks!
This was the final tale in CowGirl Romances #12 (1954), which was, sadly, the final issue of the series.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

HAUNTED LOVE "A New Life"

The 1970s; when you could rent a huge loft in Greenwich Village for pennies...
...and end up with a male chauvinist ghost boyfriend!
WTF???
Illustrated by the talented Enrique Nieto (who did only romance, horror, or gothic romance tales), this story from Haunted Love #10 (1975) is easily one of the weirdest pieces I've ever read!
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

GIRLS IN LOVE "The One Boy I Wanted"

In keeping with the "prom" theme from last week...
...let's see how typical 1950s teens handled going to the prom!
The number of cliches in this tale defy belief!
Everything from "if you take your glasses off, you'll be beautiful" to "will you marry me?"...on the first date!

While the writer and artist of this story from Girls in Love #47 (1955) are unknown, I'd like to ask one question...
Why does everyone who's supposed to be a student look at least a decade too old?
It's like watching 90210!

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Jet Jaunt"

It's springtime...and more importantly, it's PROM time!
But, in teen humor comic books (even comics set in the future), things never go smoothly!
 
OK, maybe it's just as well that we of the real 21st Century still don't have flying cars...
As you might have guessed, Archie artist Dan DeCarlo was the illustrator for this tale from Standard Comics' Jetta of the 21st Century #5 (1952), which was actually her first issue!
(Issues 1-4 were a romance comic called Today's Romance!)
There's more about Jetta in an earlier post HERE.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

"Fury of the Femizons"

Rush Limbaugh whines about "Feminazis", but personally, I think he'd be turned-on by...
...as portrayed in this Women's Lib-era story from the b/w magazine Savage Tales #1 (1971)!
Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by John Romita, Sr,  this tale had an unusual genesis, as detailed on the editorial page...
Women's liberation.
It's all around us, be we male or female.
marches, intellectual treatises, picketing, bra-burning, some four-letter forensics, and more burnings–not always of bras.
"Women are the equals of men every day, in every way!'
Men are beginning to believe it.
Women always knew it.
So what happens if maybe we come the full circle in, say the next hundred years or so?
What if women turn the rascals out–and we do mean out!
What would we have then?
A better world? Perhaps.
A gentler world? Could be.
A different world? Believe it.
Stan Lee got to wondering-and, by and by, he set imaginative artist Johnny Romita to wondering along with him.
The result is, perhaps, something just a wee bit new under the sun.
Not quite sword-and-sorcery–certainly not science-fiction–and not exactly a political polemic.
Robin Morgan clobbers Buck Rogers in the 25th century!
Kate Millett zaps both Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless–then takes over Mongo for good measure!
The hand that rocks the cradle really rules the world!
Today's look at the future...as seen from the past.  ;-)

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