Wednesday, November 13, 2013

TIFFANY SINN "St Louis Stake Out"

The "CIA Sweetheart" is back (and on the cover, yet)...
Art by Dick Giordano
...and she's about to discover spy organizations don't place "employee relations" high on their list of priorities...
If you picked up the next issue of Charlton's Career Girl Romances, you didn't see "Three Shots of a Laser"!
Tiffany Sinn was MIA (Missing In Action)!
She re-surfaced several months later, in the back of Secret Agent #10 (1967) as shown HERE, with the plotline resolved by a flashback showing Tiffany shooting Rex's masked brother Al seconds after the end of this tale, and then, apparently, forgetting all about Rex!
Weird, eh?
Why the radical shift in storyline?
We'll never know, since there were no other Tiffany Sinn tales published...
This particular story from Career Girl Romances #39 (1967) was written by her co-creator Gary Friedrich and illustrated by Luis Domiguez, who, unfortunately, never had a high-profile ongoing series.
Instead he wandered all over the industry, doing almost 700 stories and covers in every genre imaginable...except super-heroes, which may explain why he's not better-known.
Western fans know him as the second, and longest-running, artist on the original Weird Western series of Jonah Hex.

I'd like to offer an extremely grateful "thank you" to reader ianintheuk for graciously providing the scans in this post!
Thank you, Ian.
It's pop culture fans like you who make this sort of sharing both fun and worthwhile.
Next week:
We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(You will! Really!)
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

HARVEY "Harvey and Duke"

How close can you come to doing an Archie "imitator" without being sued?
...ask comics legend Stan Lee, who tried it...twice...and failed both times!
Stan "the Man" Lee will forever be enshrined in comics history as the co-creator of an astounding number of popular, long-running characters.
But Harvey wasn't one of them.
Despite taking all the established Archie tropes, reworking them slightly by making Harvey the "new kid in town", and adding Stan Goldberg's extremely Dan DeCarlo-esque art, Harvey was gone after only six issues from 1970-72!
At least it lasted longer than Stan's previous Archie clone, Homer Hooper, which went bye-bye after only four issues.
Next week:
The return of Tiffany Sinn: the "CIA Sweetheart" in a titanic tale of triumph and tragedy!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

AMAZING ADVENTURES "Adonis 2-PX-89"

Our final Halloween entry is a weird combo of sci-fi and humor...
Art by Allen Anderson
...which was probably written by the man who created the Clark Kent/Superman/Lois Lane love/hate triangle...
This cover story from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #4 (1951) was illustrated by Henry Sharp who, during his decade in comics, illustrated only sci-fi or war stories!
Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel was the editor of the Ziff-Davis comics line, and wrote many of the stories that appeared in it, so it's not unreasonable to assume this tale, which contains many plot aspects common to those tales of Superman and Lois Lane, was scripted by the same writer
Next week:
We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)
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Friday, October 25, 2013

SINISTER HOUSE OF SECRET LOVE "Bride of the Falcon" Conclusion

...Kathy Harwood thought she found the man of her dreams.
He turned out to be a nightmarish control freak with an ominous secret she's about to discover...
Written by Frank Robbins and illustrated by Alex Toth and Frank Giacoia, this book-length tale from DC's Sinister House of Secret Love #3 (1972) is considered by many to be one of the high points of the title's all-too brief run.
Be here next Wednesday for our last Halloween-season entry!
Next week:
We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)
And now a word from out sponsor...

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

SINISTER HOUSE OF SECRET LOVE "Bride of the Falcon" Part 4

Kathy Hammond's romantic dream-come-true is rapidly becoming a nightmare!
Count Lorenzo Di Falcone, the "man of her dreams" is showing himself to be a hot-tempered bully.
She finds her pet dog lying dead in the garden.
And when the handsome gondolier who ferried her to the castle shows up and tries to warn her of danger, he is attacked and apparently killed by the Count's falcon...
Will Kathy's now fully-functional senses enable her to make sense of the frightening goings-on at Castle Falcone?
Be here Friday for the fear-fraught finale...
Written by Frank Robbins and illustrated by Alex Toth and Frank Giacoia, this book-length tale from DC's Sinister House of Secret Love #3 (1972) is considered by many to be one of the high points of the title's all-too brief run.