True Love Comics Tales

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Beach Read TO WED THE DEVIL Chapter 3 "Interrupted Journey"

...comely ingenue Sarah Shulman, who desperately loves handsome (but poor) Justin, is being compelled by her father to marry wealthy Baron Dumont, so the Baron will cover the losses at the elder Shulman's bank apparently caused by his incompetence, thereby saving her pater from humiliation and prison...

RESCUED!!!

...or is she?

The only way you'll find out is if you're back here...
Tomorrow!

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Gothic Tales of Haunted Love

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Beach Read TO WED THE DEVIL Chapter 2 "Shattered Dreams"

We Have Already Seen...

Comely Sarah Shulman is concerned elderly crone Agatha seems to hold sway over both her father and Uncle Samuel, despite being merely a servant...or is she something more?

Will Sarah lose her One True Love to save her father from humiliation and imprisonment?
Will Baron Dumont be old and fat or young and dashing?
And what about mysterious old crone Agatha?

The only way you'll find out is if you're back here...

Tomorrow

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Secrets of Sinister House
...which reprints the five issues of Sinister House of Secret Love (including this one), but in black and white!

Monday, August 2, 2021

Beach Read TO WED THE DEVIL Chapter 1

One of our most popular events is this annual presentation of a book-length gothic novel...

...like this one, unseen in color since its' initial publication in 1971!

Sit back and enjoy...

What power does the old crone have over Sarah's father and uncle?

Or is Sarah just being paranoid?

There's more here than meets the eye!

But the only way you'll find out is if you're back here...

Tomorrow

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Gothic Tales of Haunted Love

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

MY LOVE "Must I Live Without Love?"

We saw last week how wonderfully legendary artist John Buscema portrayed women in swimsuits...

...so here's a cover that takes a scene occurring (in the story) during the chilly Autumn and turns it into a hot Summer pic...

When this story by writer Stan Lee, penciler John Buscema, and inker Sal Buscema (yes, John's little brother, who's an equally-gifted penciler) initially-appeared in Marvel's My Love V2N1 (1969), it wasn't the cover-featured tale.

But, when it was reprinted in Marvel's My Love Special #1 (1971), a new cover, based on the last panel of Page 6, was commissioned.

Guess they felt a bare-chested guy and bikini-clad girl would sell better than the sweater-clad couple in the story...

Next week:

Be here Monday as we begin our annual Beach Read blogathon featuring a book-length, multi-chapter Gothic romance!

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s!

"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.

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

LOVE DIARY "Not the Right Type!"

It's the middle of summer, so let's hit the beach...

...where studly lifeguards and beautiful babes mix and mingle in a hot, passionate broth under the sun!

(I gotta work on my imagery...)

Remember...always be yourself!

If the art style looks familiar, that's because this was an early assignment for John Buscema, one of the primary artists at Marvel Comics from the late 1960s until his untimely passing in 2002!

Incredibly-versatile, there was nothing John couldn't illustrate, from war to superheroes to romance to his most famous work on Conan the Barbarian!

This particular never-reprinted story from Orbit's Love Diary #36 (1953) is both penciled and inked by Buscema, a practice he almost always did during his first period in comics from 1949 to 1960.

After a brief stint in advertising, he returned to comics in 1966, quickly becoming the number two artist at Marvel behind Jack Kirby.

In order to match Kirby's legendary speed (up to five pages a day), Buscema stopped inking his work, except on very rare occasions.

When Kirby moved to DC in 1970, Buscema's style rapidly became the "house style" for the company.

(In fact, the original version of How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way features Buscema demonstrating anatomy, perspective, and storytelling with his unique flair.)

Next Week:

We're Not Sure Yet Exactly What We'll Present!

But...