LOVE STORY PICTURE LIBRARY "Sweet Santa" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...aspiring songwriter Gay Marne attempts to get her material into the hands of the the hot singing group The Beatsters by disguising herself as a Kris Kringle bringing presents backstage to their charity concert!
When the Santa who was hired to distribute gifts shows up, she's exposed as a fraud and flees, humiliated, but trips and falls due to the poor-fitting costume!

Looks and sounds absolutely blissful, doesn't it?

But, there's usually a secret that could totally screw up the situation!

Discover what it is...

NEXT WEEK!

LOVE STORY PICTURE LIBRARY "Sweet Santa" Part 1

Here's a never-published (in America) novel-length Christmas story...

...that reads (and feels) like a Hallmark Channel Christmas story!

Don't worry about that!

There's more to come, as you'll see...
Next Week!

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.

The artist is Luis Garcia Mozos, a Spanish artist who also did a lot of work for British comics.
Sadly, the writer credit for this story from IPC's Love Story Picture Library 507 (1964) is 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 swashbucklers, to wartime sagas to contemporary stories!

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

Amourous Education CANDY "Try-Out for Love!"

Remember this story about students crushing on a faculty member?

It's actually a reworking of an earlier tale by the same writer!

Jack Mendelsohn, the scripter of this never-reprinted tale from Quality's Candy #37 (1953) reused almost all of the plot in Tower's Tippy Teen #2 (1966)!
(Even the one-shot gym teacher's name is the same in both stories!)

Next Week:

We're Doing Another
Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie-Type Tale That'll Run through December...

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Archie's Rivals in Teen Comics

1940s-1970s

An Illustrated History

DEAR LONELY HEART "So This is Love!"

This is not the typical way a 1950s romance comic story begins...

...but this tale from Comic Media's Dear Lonely Heart #1 (1951) does have some predictable, even cliche, twists!

One date and he proposes?

And she accepts?

If she has a concussion, the writer doesn't mention it...

Speaking of which, we don't know the identities of either the writer or artist (except that they worked for the Iger Studio, which "packaged" stories and even ongoing strips for publishers), which may be just as well since I suspect some of our readers would probably want to do them serious harm for their backward (even for 1951) portrayal of male/female relationships!
BTW, this was from the first issue of Dear Lonely Heart.
It was canceled after eight issues, but the publisher must've liked the title, because it launched Dear Lonely Hearts (note the "s") less than a year later.
It also lasted only eight issues.

Next Week...

We Don't Yet Know What We'll Present!

But We Can Guarantee That...

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

Amorous Education OUR LOVE STORY "Joe Howard's Chick!"

Not sure if this is set in college or senior year of high school...
...but the situation in the story behind this never-reprinted cover by John Romita Sr was applicable in either venue!

Written by Stan Lee, penciled by Don Heck and inked by Jim Mooney, this tale from Marvel's Our Love Story #4 (1970) feels like a high school romance, but everybody's drawn more like college students!

Opinion?

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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.