Wednesday, March 23, 2016

MY LOVE "Only Myself to Blame!"

...well, who can tell us better than Stan (the Man) Lee?
And now, on with the only two-part tale in Marvel romance comic history...
Sal Buscema took over on inking from John Romita Sr, but otherwise the creative lineup stayed the same for this sequel tale from Marvel's My Love #4 (1969).
Oddly though both this and it's lead-in story were reprinted a couple of times, they were never reprinted either in the same issue or back-to-back issues!
BTW, the cover above says "My Love #38".
It's actually the cover from the previous story, reversed.
This chapter of the two-parter wasn't given the cover, so we decided to run the rather nice John Romita Sr piece as our header.
BTW, when reprinted, this tale didn't appear in My Love #38 or #39!
It appeared in Our Love Story #22 (1973), three years before the previous part was reprinted in My Love #38 (1976)!

Next Week...
We don't know yet what we'll present!
But, we can guarantee that...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

MY LOVE "Man I Must Not Love"

Besides featuring the work of three of Silver Age Marvel's artistic legends...
...this is the opener of the only two-part tale Marvel's romance line ever published!
Scripted by Stan Lee, penciled by John Buscema, and inked by John Romita (Sr), the cover-featued tale from My Love #3 (1970) has been reprinted a couple of times...but, oddly without the sequel story being reprinted either in the same issue, or even the next issue!
Weird, eh!
Next Week...
The "Soul-Stirring Sequel"!
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 16 Part 2

...Karen (with Ray Silva) and Greg (with Rita Phillips) saw each other at a nightclub, reviving feelings for each other that both were trying to suppress...
This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #125 (1968) was written by Jack Miller, with layouts and pencils by and inks by Jay Scott Pike.
Be here next month, when...
 
That's next month.
But Next Week...
We don't know yet what we'll present!
But, we can guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 16

...as we continue romance comics' longest-running soap opera!
What will that "yes" lead to?
Next Week...
The story behind for the splash page!
We can guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Yeah, we say that a lot...but it's true!)
This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #125 (1968) was written by Jack Miller, with layouts and pencils by and inks by Jay Scott Pike.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

OUR LOVE STORY "But He's the Boy I Love!"

Except for Fawcett's short-lived Negro Romance, there were no love comics stories that featured African-American protagonists...
...until this tale from Marvel's Our Love Story #5 (1970)!
Written by Stan Lee, penciled by Gene Colan, and inked by John Romita Sr, this tale does use a couple of heavy-handed cliches to try to give it "relevance".
But at least they tried...
For the record, Jack Kirby's Soul Love was just being conceived at this point.
The story of that never-produced title can be found HERE.

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