True Love Comics Tales

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE "Too Dumb for Love" / SECRET HEARTS "Summer Heart"

Long after romance titles disappeared from the comics racks...

...a snarky one-shot took classic DC Comics tales and re-wrote them!

Already-successful author Jeanne Martinet decided to rewrite a number of existing romance comics tales (all written by men) with a female-oriented (and humorous) slant.

Here's the original version from DC's Secret Hearts #45 (1958)...

Art for both versions by Bill Draut.

Several years later, Marvel did a whole mini-series along the same premise.

But that's a tale for another time...

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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

TIPPY TEEN "Wheel of Misfortune"

It's been a while since we ran some "teen humor", so let's look in on Tippy Teen...

...doing Archie-esque things with her Archie-esque cast in an Archie-esque tale from Tippy Teen #14 (1967).

Art by Doug Crane, who was the only artist to sign his art, probably because he was the only Tippy illustrator (besides artist/editor Samm Schwartz) who wasn't moonlighting from Archie Comics...at that point.

After Tower Comics went out of business, Doug worked on DC Comics' teen humor line including Swing with Scooter, Date with Debbie and Binky's Buddies.

From 1989-2005, he was a mainstay of Archie Comics' art staff, working on almost every title they published, even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

The writer is unknown.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

ALL-TRUE ROMANCE "Man-Hater"

A story that typifies many mens' opinion of women in general...

...using sex (or at least kissing and petting) to manipulate the guys for financial gain.

This decidedly-misogynistic tale appeared in Comic Media's All True Romance #9 (1953).
Writer and artist(s) are unknown.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

IT RHYMES WITH LUST "Chapter 6: the Serpent Coils" Conclusion

When Last We Left Rust, Hal, Audrey, and the rest...

...Hal has exposed Rust's secret control of Copper City!
The she-devil and her henchmen rush to the copper mines to retake control..at gunpoint if necessary!
But when her trigger-happy thugs shoot a miner, all hell breaks loose and Rust is forced to flee!

The End?
Not quite...

There's one more story to tell...

Tomorrow

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

IT RHYMES WITH LUST "Chapter 3: Deadly Female" Part 2

When Last We Left Our Protaganists...

Newspaperman Hal Weber runs the Copper City Express, which is secretly-owned by his ex-lover Rust Masson.

Rust also controls both the government and gangland of the city.

Though Rust believes she also controls Hal, her step-daughter Audrey is influencing the editor against Rust both intellectually and emotionally...