Wednesday, October 8, 2014

REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 2

We interrupt our Halloween-fest with...
Pause now for a quick recap...
Now that you're caught up, take a deep breath and continue as...
Be here next week, when we switch locales to look in on another of our cast and see what troubles her.
This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #111 (1966) was written by Jack Miller, penciled (and possibly inked) by Gene Colan.
Next week:
More secrets revealed!
 We can guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

MYSTIC "She Won't Stay Dead!"

" 'Til Death Do Us Part..." takes on new meaning...
...in this tale of life, death, and reincarnation.
The Bill LaCava-illustrated tale from Atlas' Mystic #6 (1952) had a rather misleading cover...
...indicating Walter murdered Amanda, rather than carrying out her last wishes!
And the story doesn't explain who Elaine was before the statue was smashed, nor how the soul migrated into Elaine without a ceremony to guide it.
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...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 1 Part 2

Karen Wilder Summers returns to the quiet town of Danville Corners, hoping to re-start her life after being haunted by tragedy.
But, she receives a somewhat awkward reception from old friends Lila and Roger, who reluctantly fill her in on details of life in the small town since she left.
After she's dropped-off at her family home, Karen is admitted by her sister, Peggy, whose welcome is less than sisterly...
And if that isn't enough to get you to come back next month...
Actually, it'll be October 8th.
But, next week...
Our Annual Halloween presentation of spooky,  sci-fi, and Gothic romance tales begins!
We haven't decided yet which tale 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...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 1

This blog was intitiated in 2011 in response to the cancellations of two of the few remaining TV soap operas...
...so it's only appropriate that we present the longest-running romance comic soap opera, patterned on the fondly-remembered tv/radio serial format!
Well?
Well?
Well?
Be here next week, when we continue after this extremely-awkward pause.
Written by Jack Miller, penciled (and possibly inked) by Gene Colan.
Beginning in Secret Hearts #110 (1966), this strip presented the longest ongoing plotline in DC Comics until the 1980s with an astounding 29 chapters...and an actual conclusion to the plotline.
There were several other attempts at serial storytelling in the DC romance titles...
3 Girls..Their Loves...Their Lives... 22 chapters in Heart Throbs.
Lisa St Claire 10 chapters in Young Love.
Confessions 6 chapters in Girls' Love Stories.
20 Miles to Heartbreak  4 episodes alternating between two titles, Young Love and Secret Hearts.
Am I Too Young for Love? 3 chapters in Heart Throbs
Love is What it's All About 3 chapters Young Romance
3 Loves...1 Broken Heart! 2 chapters in Young Love
My Time to Love 2 chapters in Girls' Romances
...but this was the longest.
None of them has ever been reprinted in its' entirety, though individual chapters have popped-up here and there.
We'll be presenting one chapter a month, spread over two consecutive weeks.
Secrets revealed!
More characters introduced!
 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...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

CAMPUS ROMANCES "Love was My College Major"

School's back in session, and it's time for your lesson in love...
...from a writer who takes the "book" part of "comic book" to the extreme!
Considering letterers have always been among the poorest-paid of the various contributors to comics, I wouldn't be surprised if whoever did this job said "The hell with it! I'd rather dig ditches. It'll be easier!" after finishing the assignment.
The art for this tale from Avon's Campus Romances #2 (1949) by Manny Stallman and John Guinta tries to compete with the text, but some panels look like the illustration was just an afterthought.
The script, by an author whose name is lost in the mists of history, reads like a radio soap opera, with an incredible amount of "internal monologue" by Karen.
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..
 featuring the cover from the issue of Campus Romances this story is taken from!
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