REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 22

Let's head back to Hollywood...

..and see how Karen is doing in that cinematic Sodom (and/or Gomorrah)!

Will Karen bite the "apple" B.W. is offering her?

Next Week...

The Secret Behind the Splash Page!
(It's not what you think!)
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 #131 (1968) was written by Jack Miller, but the art credits are becoming somewhat nebulous, as a variety of hands seem to be doing various things on different pages, so we're not going to offer an assessment as to who did what, except the splash is by Dick Giordano!

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ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "Head Over Heels in Love"

With Labor Day coming up, it's time to ease into Autumn...

...as we did into summer, with another story from the short-lived (and never reprinted) St John's Adventures in Romance #1 (1949)!

Written by the prolific Dana Dutch, about whom very little is known, except his extensive list of  comic scripts.
Interestingly, out of 206 identified scripts, over 200 were romance stories, with a smattering of superhero and high adventure!

Illustrated by the versatile Frank Bolle, who's still active in the field today!

Here's his website!

Next week:

The Return of Reach for Happiness...
(Yes, we screwed up the scheduling, but this time we mean it!)

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

(Things are really getting juicy...)

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MY LOVE "Must I Live Without Love?"

As Summer turns to Fall in the real world...

...we look at a cover by John Buscema and Frank Giacoia that takes a scene occuring (in the story) during the chilly Autumn and turns it into a hot Summer pic...

When this story by writer Stan Lee, penciler John Buscema, and inker Sal Buscema initially-appeared in Marvel's My Love V2N1 (1969), it wasn't the cover-featured tale.

But, when it was reprinted in Marvel's My Love Special #1 (1971), a new cover, based on the last panel of Page 6, was commissioned.

Guess they felt a bare-chested guy and bikini-clad girl would sell better than the sweater-clad couple in the story...

Next week:

The Return of Reach for Happiness...

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

(Things are really getting juicy...)

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s!

"It Happened at Woodstock," "My Heart Broke in Hollywood," "Love on the Rebound!"

Collects Love Romance #89 and #101-104; My Love #2, #14, #16 and #18-20; Teen-Age Romance #77 and #84, Our Love Story #5; and Patsy Walker #119.

DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE "Grey Lady of Coburn Manor" Chapter Four: Hidden Room

When Last We Left Coburn Manor...

...the home's owner, in the process of selling the centuries-old structure to a hotel chain, may be the latest victim of the ghostly Grey Lady...

Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love died with this issue, but was reborn as Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, a horror anthology that managed another eleven issues before, ahem, giving up the ghost!

Thank you for joining us for our annual "beach read" mini-marathon.

Be back each Wednesday for another classic romance comic tale!

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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DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE "Grey Lady of Coburn Manor" Chapter Three: Body in the Garden

We Have Already Seen...

Is a ghost responsible for the deaths at Coburn Manor since Suzanne Westwood and Brian Stevens arrived to assess the building's condition before the final sale to the hotel chain they work for?

While the terrifying situation has brought the co-workers' relationship to a more...intimate...level, the body count is climbing...

The story concludes...

TOMORROW!

You may note the cover by Nick Cardy has Suzanne as a blonde instead of the bright red hair she hs inside!

It's possible the cover art was prepared and printed several months before the insides were colored and printed, so the editor might simply have lost track of the character's hair color...

Inker Vince Colletta was the "go-to" guy when a comic publisher needed a story inked fast, though some pencilers complained that, to meet tight deadlines, he would leave out art elements they had taken great efforts to include.

To be fair, his delicate linework was ideal for romance comics as the numerous examples we've posted HERE can attest.

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