HEART AND SOUL "Second Love"

There are lots of stories about "first love", but few about the second time around.

Why is that?

While the writer of this never-reprinted tale from MikeRoss' Heart and Soul #1 (1954) is unknown, the art is by Ross Andru (pencils) & Mike Esposito (inks) on the first page and Mike Sekowsky (pencils) & Jack Abel (inks) on the rest of the story.

It's fair to assume that Andru and Esposito, as the editor and art director, did the first page of each story to give the other creatives a story "springboard" as well as model imagery for the primary characters.

Clever idea.

Too bad their publishing company was so short-lived.

Trivia: the company produced only four titles...three romance books (two of which were 3-D) and a MAD-style humor comic!

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REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 17 Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...Rita wants her fiance, Greg, to chose once and for all between her and his recently-returned first love, Karen...

The answer will cause a major shake-up...

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REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 17

Let's return to Danville Corners...

...where the triangle of (l-r) Karen, Greg, and Rita is about to get even messier!

Will Rita drive Greg back to Karen?
Is all this due to low blood sugar?

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The scene behind for the splash page!
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This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #126 (1968) was written by Jack Miller, with layouts and pencils by and inks by Jay Scott Pike and assists from Carmine Infantino.

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INTIMATE LOVE "Kissing Tells"

Is it better to be a "good" or "bad" girl?

See, this never-reprinted feature from Standard's Intimate Love #21 (1953) proves good girls who occasionally neck get more guys than bad girls who let them get to "first base" (or more)!

Writer/artist Vernon Greene did a number of stories and one-page features for romance titles at both Standard and Atlas (later Marvel) in 1952-53 before returning to full-time work on various syndicated newspaper comic strips.

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MY LOVE "Only Myself to Blame!"

When Last We Left Our Heartbroken Heroine...

...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)!

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