Wednesday, March 21, 2018

MY ROMANTIC ADVENTURES "Spring Meeting"

Since it's now Spring, 2018, let's look at a tale from Spring, 1958...
...and see a story that some would say could happen today, 60 year later!
"I figured right off that any check I gave you would be just a way of keeping the money in the family!"?
Now that's a lawyer!
This never-reprinted short illustrated by Al Williamson and Angelo Torres (who penciled and inked different sections as they passed the pages back and forth) appeared in ACG's My Romantic Adventures #86 (1958).
Odds are the script was by editor Richard E Hughes who wrote almost everything at ACG!
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

OUR LOVE STORY "You Can't Love Again"

...since Nan's doing such a good job, I'll just let her explain...
Wait..Mike deliberately planted stories in the press about his "professional disgrace"...just to see if she loved him?
Mind you, this was in the pre-Internet days, but even so, the word would have spread around both the entertainment and legal worlds pretty damn quickly!
Makes you wonder how he cleaned up that mess!
This Stan Lee-scripted/Gene Colan-penciled/Frank Giacoia-inked tale from Marvel's Our Love Story #4 (1970) was one of the few two-parters the Silver Age Marvel romance titles did!
Oddly, it wasn't cover-featured for either segment, as you'd expect such a story designed to draw repeat customers would do!
Even stranger...when the two-parter was reprinted, it appeared in two different titles several months apart!
And...this part (the conclusion) was reprinted before the first part!
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But...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

OUR LOVE STORY "But How Can I Love a Square?"

It was the 1960s, and if you weren't "hip", you were a "square".
Today, we call them "conservatives".
I hate to say it, but Nan seems unbelievably shallow!
This Stan Lee scripted/Gene Colan penciled/Frank Giacoia inked tale from Marvel's Our Love Story #3 (1969) was one of the few two-parters the Silver Age Marvel romance titles did!
Oddly, it wasn't cover-featured for either segment, as you'd expect such a story designed to draw repeat customers would do!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

GIRLS' LOVE STORIES "Revenge!"

We wind up Black History Month with one of the few Black romance tales by DC...
...which also has a rather unique history behind it!
In our entry about Fawcett's 1950s title Negro Romance (HERE), we mentioned that the actual stories were rather generic, with the characters being illustrated as Black rather than White being the only difference.
This John Rosenberger tale from DC's Girls Love Stories #170 (1972) proves that point, since it's a visually-modified version of this story...
...from Young Romance #151 (1967-68)!
In fact, the original tale was the cover feature!
While the fashions, hairstyles, and the leads' facial features were modified, except for a couple of captions, the script stayed exactly the same!
Even the characters' names (Terry and Rich) were unchanged!
(Credit where credit is due: the amazing comics historian Jaque Nodell pointed out the link between these two stories several years ago HERE!)
But the saga doesn't end there!
The story was re-presented one more time, in Young Love #111 (1974)...
This time with the usual updating of hairstyles and fashions...but very little modification of the original script and Terry and Rich stayed Caucasian!
Want to see the two other versions of this torrid tale?
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

FAST WILLIE JACKSON "Dee Dee: Tickets Now On Sale"

Some women have little self-esteem...
...throwing themselves at men who don't appreciate them at all!
Bet if they did a follow-up to this never-reprinted tale from Fitzgerald Publications' Fast Willie Jackson #5 (1977), it would show Dee Dee sitting miserably with Helen, Tina, and Frankie!
In real-life, lack of self-esteem affects many intelligent, attractive women of all ethnicities, trapping them in unhealthy relationships!
Illustrated by Gus Lemoine, the script was either by him or publisher/editor Bertam Fitzgerald.
Previously, Gus pencilled shorts and a couple of covers at Archie Comics from 1967 to the mid-1970s.
The Fast Willie books were his final credited work.
(There is a theory that Gus was really Henry Scarpelli, a versatile humor artist who did work for Archie as well as Archie-clone books for both Marvel and DC.
The period when "Gus" was active at Archie was before Scarpelli's credited work appeared there and disappeared after Scarpelli began receiving credit for his work on Archie titles.
So...it's like "Gee, Clark, we never see you when Superman's around! Why's that?"
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