YOUNG LOVE "Twist"

Maybe the party-pooper adults in FootLoose were right...

...dance is the Devil's instrument to lure teens to naughtiness!

This cover-featured tale from Prize's Young Love #33 (1962) was an attempt to cash in on the then-hot dance "The Twist".

The problem of translating the frantic hip gyration of the dance to single images is never really solved satisfactorily, with veteran Bob Powell's making it look more awkward than exciting.

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HEART & SOUL "Gigolo"

When you play at love, you may get played...

...as this never-reprinted sob-story from Mikeross' Heart & Soul #1 (1954) proves.

Pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito.

The writer is unknown.

The team of Andru & Esposito worked on numerous projects, including a long run on Wonder Woman in the 1960s.

They also had their own comics company in the early 1950s called MikeRoss Publications which published only four titles, three of which were romance comics!

You can see other tales from the same title, Heart & Soul, that this story appeared in, HERE, HERE, and HERE!

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REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 6 Part 2

When Last We Visited Danville Corners...

Rita forces Greg to admit he's engaged to her in front of Karen, then attempts to console the distressed, yet still love-smitten, blonde.

Rita then heads to her father, Marty's, store to tell him her rival is now out of the way...

Remember, this was the 1960s.
Karen couldn't just pop a DVD or BluRay into the player or stream one of his films on Netflix!

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BTW: This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #115 (1966) was written by Jack Miller, laid-out by John Rosenberger, penciled by Jim Mooney, and inked by Tom Palmer.

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REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 6

We return to the small town of Danvile Corners...

...where joy and heartbreak are as common as in any big city!

Can anything, like maybe that guy on Page 1, keep Rita from achieving her dreams?

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BTW: This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #115 (1966) was written by Jack Miller, laid-out by John Rosenberger penciled by Jim Mooney and inked by Tom Palmer.

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MY EXPERIENCE "I Dated Disaster"

Our final Wally Wood Tribute tale is...

...As we conclude the series of never-reprinted tales illustrated by him and taken directly from the original comics from December of last year to Valentine's Day.

Best-known as a horror and sci-fi artist with a penchant for illustrating beautiful women, Wally Wood's early output had quite a bit of romance comics work, much of it not seen since first publication, like this story from Fox's My Experience #22 (1949).
And, since it was done before the Comics Code Authority eliminated most adult-level content in comics after the juvenile delinquency scare of the 1950s, the subject matter was on the level of the b-movies of the era, often a bit hard-edged and tawdry.

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