LOVE STORY PICTURE LIBRARY "Dream Christmas" Part 1

Here's a never-published (in America), book-length Christmas story that reads and feels...

...like a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie, even though it was done decades ago!

What is it about Chris Brewster that we should know...but don't?

Find Out Next Wednesday!

For Christmas this year, we're doing things a little differently.

Instead of a bunch of unrelated Christmas/winter season tales, we're presenting a movie-length "graphic novel" from England.

Sadly, the writer-artist credits for this story from IPC's Love Story Picture Library 1031 (1973) are unknown.

BTW, this title ran over 1600 issues by doing a half-dozen issues per month covering everything from holiday tales, to period pieces involving swashbuckers, to wartime sagas to contemporary stories!

They were as popular among British teen and young adult girls as Harlequin Romances were among Americans!

COOKIE "Turkey Meets Jerky"

I couldn't find a single romance comic with a Thanksgiving theme...

...but, thankfully (pun intended), teen humor comics have a number of them!

Note, there is a romantic sub-plot involving Cookie's girlfriend AngelPuss!

Curiously, this tale, written and illustrated by Dan Gordon, is from the same issue our previous Cookie holiday tale appeared in, ACG's Cookie #10 (1947)!

Dan Gordon was a writer-animator-director for the Fleischer Studios (Superman, Popeye), then went into comics, finally returning to animation at Hanna-Barbera where he co-created (among others) The Flintstones!

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Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories

Love in the Time of Covid-19 SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE "Snoopiest Girl in History!"

As the second wave of the CoronaVirus pandemic rampages across America (and the globe)...

...we return to disease-related romance stories, with this one featuring fiction's most famous girlfriend!

Lois Lane is responsible for CoronaVirus???

That's the only conclusion you can reach from this never-reprinted tale from DC's Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #56 (1965)!

What did writer Edmond Hamilton and illustrator Kurt Schaffenberger know 55 years ago that we are only now discovering???

Note: While comics have long been pre-teen/teen male-oriented, romance comics (and Lois Lane fits into that category) have been pre-teen/teen/young adult female-oriented!

So why make the heroine in a female-oriented book such a manipulative bitch?

I don't know, but it was successful enough to keep the book running from 1958 to 1974, with the strip continuing for another few years in Superman Family, which combined Lois, Jimmy Olsen, Supergirl, and a new series Mr & Mrs Superman, which featured the married 1940s Clark and Lois of Earth-Two!

Next Week:

Another tale combining Disease and Desire!

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A Celebration of 75 Years

PERSONAL LOVE "A Love of My Own"

For Veteran's Day, here's a military-themed comic tale of True Love...

...that spans not only military ranks, but generations as well!

This touching (if unlikely) tale from Personal Love #24 (1953) was illustrated by an up-and-coming Frank Frazetta, who would go on to become one of the foremost sf/fantasy artists of all time, doing the definitive book covers of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, John Carter of Mars, and other classic characters as well as posters for movies and tv series including the original BattleStar Galactica.

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What Do LOVE PROBLEMS & ADVICE ILLUSTRATED and PRIVATE LIVES AND LOVES OF GIRLS IN WHITE Have in Common?

We'll tell you in a second...

...it's been an exhausting week leading up to the election and we're just too pooped to do a full story post!
But we didn't want to disappoint our faithful audience!

So, this week, we offer a kool Lee Elias-illustrated cover you wouldn't usually see on this blog...for a very unusual reason!

Wonder why?

Because it had nothing to do with any story in McCombs' Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #1 (1949).

Note: Harvey Comics purchased McCombs' inventory when it went out of business in 1950, and continued the Love Problems comic for 42 more issues until 1957.

And here's the weirdest thing...

...the cover art was re-used for Private Lives and Loves of Girls in White, which appeared as part of Harvey's Comic Hits anthology (#58 in 1952), an issue about romances involving doctors and nurses!

BTW, it still didn't have anything to do with any of the stories in the book!

Next Week...

Another Tale of Disease, Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

(Covid-19 is Worse than Ever!)

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