LOST WORLDS "Worlds Apart"

"Submitted for your approval, a romantic triangle with unequal sides..."

"...because one point of this scalene triangle is firmly entrenched...in the Twilight Zone!"

(It works if you read it in a Rod Serlingesque voice.)

Cue Twilight Zone theme music...

While the writer for this story from Standard's sci-fi anthology title Lost Worlds #5 (1952) is unknown, the art is by Nick Cardy, who began his career in the Golden Age and still does the occasional comics cover today at the age of 91!

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YOUNG ROMANCE "Goodbye, My Darling"

What if he was going to leave you...and it was all your fault?

Would the guilt rip you apart, or bring you together?

I'd have that doctor up on malpractice charges in a hot minute!

First he tells her "Your husband's gonna die within a year, and it's your fault!", then it's "Oh, he's fine, it's a miracle!"

The guy's a quack!

The writer for this tale from Prize's Young Romance #89 (1957) is unknown, and it's just as well!

The nicely-done art is by Lou Cameron (pencils) and Vince Colletta (inks).

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OUR LOVE STORY "Model with a Broken Heart"

It's a '70s story with a '40s feel...

...because the scripter was a child of the Swingin' 60s-70s, and the illustrator was one of the greats of the Golden Age.

The story has a weird feel to it, like one of the 1940s-50s tales updated for the 60s-70s.

But I'm assured this never-reprinted tale from Our Love Story #14 (1971) was, in fact, written and illustrated in 1970-71!

Scripter Gary Friedrich began penning comics in the late 1960s, including Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos, the cowboy Ghost Rider, and the Steve Ditko-illustrated Blue Beetle.

But he began his career doing romance comic stories at Charlton!

Later, he would co-create the motorcyclist Ghost Rider and the first Black superheroine, ButterFly!

Tarpe Mills was one of few female writer/artists (let alone female writers or artists) in the Golden Age.

Besides working on a number of established series, she created one of the first superheroines; Miss Fury!

Tarpe retired from comics in the early 1950s, returning in the '70s to do this romance story under the pen-name "JT Mills" (short for her full name, June Tarpe Mills) and a cover for a Miss Fury reprint trade paperback.

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JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Man Trouble"

To help ease your return to school or work...MORE fun with Dan DeCarlo's Jetta!

...in this case, her very first apperance from Jetta of the 21st Century #5 (1952), which was actually the first issue.

(Issues 1-4 were a romance comic called Today's Romance!)

Written and penciled by the legendary Dan DeCarlo, but may not have been inked by him.

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YOUNG ROMANCE "It's a Girl!"

After hearing about Todd Akin, it's no wonder that the worst thing a Republican can hear is...

...and that Republican men in 2012 haven't progressed from the mind-set shown in this 58-year-old tale from Young Romance #65 (1954)!

To be fair, women as portrayed in this story aren't much better.

Lois is a doormat ("...we'll keep him happy! Isn't that what a man's womenfolk are for, after all?"), and JD seems rather butch, as if she had to be as manly as the males around her simply to be competent.
And you'll note JD's (gasp) not married!

It's scary that this seems to be the image of America that Republicans want to return to.

Sorry to vent, but after reading about sheer idiocy like Akins' comments, I feel the need to do so or GO MAD!  
MAD!
MAD!

DO YOUR HEAR???

Story probably by Joe Simon and/or Jack Kirby.
Layouts by Jack Kirby.
Pencils/inks by John Prentice

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