Actress in a supporting role: Nan from "Patsy's Secret Boyfriend", who helps teach us to always give our friends the benefit of the doubt before we accuse them of being man-hungry sluts!
Actor in a supporting role: Tom from "One Day A Week", who shows us that true love wins out, even if your girlfriend is vaguely dissatisfied, easily fooled and wants to live in the cab of a truck!
Worst hairdo: Sally Rogers from "Give Back My Heart". Good Lord! What the hell was that terrifying mess all about? And you mean she never changed her style in FOUR YEARS?
Most melodramatic splash page: "JILTED!" Y'think it's over? I get the feeling that it IS.
Best artwork: Jim Steranko, for "My Heart Broke in Hollywood". Best Steranko artwork I've ever seen.
Worst pickup line: "You little FOOL!" used by both Whitey in "Jilted" and Art Nelson in "I Want Him-- But He's Hers!"
Biggest Name Screw-Up: "The Dream World of Doris Wilson", in which our heroine is actually named Doris Nelson.
Best original story that was REDUXED: "I Do my Own Thing-- No Matter Whom I Hurts", which was brilliantly reduxed into the hilarious "President Stripper".
Cutest boy: Stephen from "As Time Goes By", as drawn by Gene Colan.
Cutest girl: Kathy, from "Love Isn't In The Cards For Me", as drawn by J. Buscema, J. Romita & F. Giacoia.
Girl that most resembles Teeds: Joellen Jacobs, from "Formula For Love".
best 'FLOATING-HEAD' scene: The splash page of "One Day A Week", where the visage of Tom the trucker looks not unlike it is carved into the mountain like Rushmore!
Actress in a lead role: Jill, from "A Teen-Ager Can Also Love", who teaches us that if we put our own emotional and physical needs aside and focus all our energies on a has-been teen idol, he will again become famous and then years later, marry us.
Actor in a lead role: How can I not give it to Humphrey Bogart, from "As Time Goes By".
Best story: "I Do My Thing-- No Matter Whom It Hurts". . . . .
quote:Originally posted by Thriftshop Debutante: I enjoyed the "Well, well, I see that you know how to read! Is it the latest Mickey Spillane thriller or a comic book?" bit from The Summer Must End. (The original, not the Redux!)
Dang, I should have had an evil villain & villainess category!
But Cynthia Worthington from "I Wan Him-- But He's HERS!" would have also been a contender!
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I dig the white scarf too. But re-view p.116, panel 1 again. Besides looking a bit Feister/Harris, it also kinda looks like someone we know. (The dialogue is a hint.)
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Have you guys checked out Fantagraphics's Romance Without Tears, a TPB with reprints of 40s/50s St. John romance comics? Good stuff. $15 on Amazon.
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Oh, and I agree with Lash about reprints. I'd REALLY prefer color, but I'd probably get a B&W Essential if there was one.
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Further edit: from what I've read, Jim Steranko doesn't hasn't done all that many comics (when compared to others) and the only romance-type comic I found on this list was the one we already know.
Side note: this isn't a romance comic, but I've always liked this cover
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Steranko is just one of those rare comics SENSATIONS...
I mean, the guy really only did a *handful* of X-Men and S.H.I.E.L.D. issues... I actualy had *no idea* he had done any Romance (or any OTHER) comics at ALL!
And the X-issues I've seen (I've even owned a few of them, my favorite cover being the one featuring POLARIS--- # 50 or maybe # 51) were nowhere NEAR as hot as "My Heart Broke In Hollywood"!
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