Wednesday, February 7, 2018

SOUL LOVE "Old Fires!"

This is the only complete story from Soul Love that was ever published...
...appearing full original art-sized in in Privateer Press' tabloid-sized Jack Kirby Masterworks (1979)
Written and penciled by Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta
You can read other Soul Love tales we've presented HERE and HERE.
Soul Love would have been the second romance comic oriented to a Black audience.
The first was the 1950s series Negro Romance, which we covered HERE.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

TIPPY TEEN "Kiss and Tell"

Besides romance comics, most of us also read teen humor comics...
...like Tippy Teen, which featured this tale that starts off with our heroine reading a romance comic...
If the plotting and art style on this never-reprinted tale from 1967's Tippy Teen #17 reads like an Archie Comics story, that's because many of their writers and artists (who were freelancers) including Sam Schwartz, Harry Shorten, and Dan DeCarlo, also worked on Tippy strips for the short-lived Tower Comics in the 1960s!
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

ACTUAL CONFESSIONS "Plain Girl"

This is not the usual "ugly duckling transforms into swan and wins studly guy" tale...
...which may be why this story from Atlas' Actual Confessions #13 (1952) has never been reprinted!
See, girls?
When you look past the surface, you might find your "knight in shining armor!
I've always found it ironic that in stories like these, "plain girls" lust for studmuffins, transform into glamorous creatures and win the beefcake!
The women were unwilling to see beyond appearance to what lay within, much as they accused the men in these tales of doing!
This life-lesson brought to us by penciler Ben Brown, inker David Gantz, and an unknown writer!
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

OUR LOVE STORY "Only One Can Win!"

During the Silver Age of Comics, Marvel had a pair of romance books which featured work by their hottest artists, including this pair, John Buscema and Don Heck, on this torrid tale from Our Love Story #3.
Since fanboys don't usually read or buy these books, they're among the hardest to find titles of the 1960s, which is a shame since the art is first-rate!
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But...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

TIME FOR LOVE "It's Like Wild, Wild, Wild!"

Here's a cover that presents both the beginning and the ending of the story!
How does that work?
Read for yourself!
See?
The cover is a composite of the first and last panels of the never-reprinted story from Charlton's Time for Love #13 (1969)!
I love the cover copy "Time for Swinging...Time for Dreaming!"
Think the "old fogies" at the Comics Code Authority realized the phrase they were approving?
But there's no mistaking the message of the story itself...counter-culture BAD!
It's obvious Vince Colletta is the inker of both the story and cover, but the writer and penciler are unknown.
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