Wednesday, February 13, 2019

DEBBI'S DATES "Buddy in 'Ah--Sweet Valentine's Day!' "

Until the 1970s, there were numerous competitors with Archie Comics for the teen humor comics market...
...and here's a Valentine's Day story from one of the last titles to appear!
Written by Steve Skeates, and illustrated by Henry Scarpelli with assists by Win Mortimer and Bob Oksner, this never-reprinted tale from DC's Debbi's Dates #1 (1969) is, oddly one of the few romantic (albeit humorous) comics tales I could find with "Valentine" in the title!
Most of them involve the famous St Valentine's Day Massacre!
Both Debbi's Dates and the "sister" title Date with Debbi disappeared from the newsstands by late 1972, along with almost all DC's romance titles!
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

TEEN-AGERS INGENUE "Susie's Theory of Relativity...or How to Live with Relatives at Christmas"

It's strangely-hard to find Christmas-themed romance comics...
...but teen magazines like this Dell's Teen-Agers Ingenue from the early 1960s help fill the void!
Susan Perl also contributed to Harvey Kurtman's HELP!, as well as hundreds of children's books (and some adlut stuff too!)!
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Italian Billionare's Christmas Miracle
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Like "Gift of the Magi"? We have TWO versions of it...

...each with their own particular charms!
and
O Henry's classic Christmas story of True Love has been adapted into every media format imaginable, sometimes as a period piece, sometimes updated to the present, and, in a couple of cases, projected into the future!
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018

YOUNG LOVE "Love Me--Love My Father"

We ran the 1969-1970 version of this tale HERE...
...but when DC reprinted the story in 1974-1975 they changed more than the fashions and hairstyles, as the revised splash page demonstrates!
The reprinted version from DC's Young Love #113 (1974-75) changed only the female fashions and hairstyles, not the male ones!
I wonder why?
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Stan Lee: Romance Comics Writer!

Besides tales of the super-powered denizens of the "Marvel Universe"...
...the late Stan Lee scripted hundreds of romance comics stories...
You can see all of Stan Lee's work we've re-presented on this blog (including the ones shown above) by clicking HERE!
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You'll see the story we planned to present, but bounced due to Stan Lee's passing!
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"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.
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