TIPPY TEEN "What's Happening, Baby?"

When middle-aged men write stories about hipsters...

...the results are going to be...interesting, offering a look at how the middle class viewed beatniks in the 1960s!

If the plotting and art style on this tale from 1968's Tippy Teen #19 reads like an Archie Comics story, that's because many of their writers and artists (who were freelancers) including Sam Schwartz, Harry Shorten, and Dan DeCarlo, also worked on Tippy strips for the short-lived Tower Comics in the 1960s!

If anyone can tell me who of that crew did this tale, I'll post the info and credit the poster!

 Happy Easter from Tippy!

Though there were a number of Easter-themed comic stories (and even entire comic books) in the 1940s and 1950s, this is the only Easter-themed comic I could find from the Silver Age!

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TIFFANY SINN "To Save an Agent"

Career Girl Romances featured secretaries, nurses, models, waitresses...

...and, briefly, a secret agent!

Hey. it was the 1960s, and working for the CIA is a career!

It doesn't look like Rex made good on his promise!

The cad!

I don't have the second story to refer to, and the last tale Tiffany tale (which we ran HERE) only mentions him in a flashback and makes no reference to Tiffany and he being married.

(The fact she's still Tiffany Sinn, and not Tiffany Swift from an era when wives almost always took their husband's name is a tip-off.)

Written by Gary Friedrich, penciled by Charles Nicholas, and (probably) inked by Vince Alascia, this premiere tale from Charlton's Career Girl Romances #38 (1967) was a real change of pace for the rather sedate comic!

Tiffany appeared as the lead feature in the next issue...then disappeared!

Her next (and last) story after that was in the one-shot Secret Agent #10 (1967), with a new creative team and the possibility of more adventures.

BTW, thanks to Jacque Nodell, writer of the superb romance comics blog Sequental Crush, for doing a kool, informative post about Career Girl Romances, prompting me to do this entry!

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WARTIME ROMANCES "Road to Disgrace"

Before 1973, serving in the military, whether voluntary or conscripted (the "draft")...

...used to be a part of almost every American man's life.

So, it seemed logical that there would be romance comics based around something that affected almost all young (18-25), eligible males, and the women who loved them!

The illustrator of this story from St John's WarTime Romances #4 (1952) is legendary good-girl artist Matt Baker, but the writer is unknown.

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ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "It's Co-old Outside"

With a winter storm sweeping through the country...

...it's time to go skiing in a bikini!

(Tess isn't cold!

She's wearing gloves and earmuffs!)

Of course, any artist will tell you that a blank canvas is almost always white/off-white, so he/she only needs white paint for touch-up or mixing with other colors to lighten them!
So, running out of white paint is the least-likely situation an artist would experience!

This otherwise entertaining little tale from St John's Adventures in Romance #2 (1950) was illustrated by the versatile Frank Bolle, who's still active in the field today!

The scripter is unknown.

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MOD LOVE "As Long as I Win"

The previous Mod Love story was our most-viewed post ever...

...so who am I to argue with my pop art-loving audience?

Written by Michael Lutin, the story (and the entire issue of Western's 1967 Mod Love one-shot magazine-sized comic book) is illustrated by noted French pop artist Michel Quarez.

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