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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 18:39:09 GMT -5
Damn it. Went to the midtown Manhattan library to pick up a copy of Weird Love volume 2 since the website says they had 4 copies available in that particular branch. But they are somewhere in the basement still awaiting processing for over a week now and not on the shelf. Well, I'll be back to get you my little chickadee. Never you fear and don't go two-timing me before I get there If you end up not being able to get a hold of a copy, I can always send you mine when I am done reading it.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 5, 2016 20:49:41 GMT -5
Here it is:  I'd bet a monkey against a mousetrap that all five people in this picture other than April O'Day are real celebrities. But GCD only identifies Andy Williams and Alfred Hitchcock. I almost recognize the other man in the picture, but can't quite put my finger on his name. The two women, no idea. Agree on Debbie Reynolds for the blonde. The other woman could be Eartha Kitt. The third man - Frank Gifford? |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 5, 2016 21:49:53 GMT -5
Damn it. Went to the midtown Manhattan library to pick up a copy of Weird Love volume 2 since the website says they had 4 copies available in that particular branch. But they are somewhere in the basement still awaiting processing for over a week now and not on the shelf. Well, I'll be back to get you my little chickadee. Never you fear and don't go two-timing me before I get there If you end up not being able to get a hold of a copy, I can always send you mine when I am done reading it. Thanks CW, that's a magnanimous offer. You are the best. I'm sure that won't be necessary, just have to wait till whatever they do to process new arrivals before putting them on the shelf gets done. Weird Love Vol 2 is just playing hard to get but if I show patience and understanding, promise to take it out to a fancy restaurant, tell it how much I admired its older sister, Vol 1, I know it will finally open up to me, begging me to caress its satin smooth pages, to linger over its vibrant colors, to play my finger along its spine as it reveals all that lies within .... Man, I'm getting excited about this |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2016 7:34:00 GMT -5
If you end up not being able to get a hold of a copy, I can always send you mine when I am done reading it. Thanks CW, that's a magnanimous offer. You are the best. I'm sure that won't be necessary, just have to wait till whatever they do to process new arrivals before putting them on the shelf gets done. Weird Love Vol 2 is just playing hard to get but if I show patience and understanding, promise to take it out to a fancy restaurant, tell it how much I admired its older sister, Vol 1, I know it will finally open up to me, begging me to caress its satin smooth pages, to linger over its vibrant colors, to play my finger along its spine as it reveals all that lies within .... Man, I'm getting excited about this You going to be okay there, Ish? |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 6, 2016 11:02:05 GMT -5
Thanks CW, that's a magnanimous offer. You are the best. I'm sure that won't be necessary, just have to wait till whatever they do to process new arrivals before putting them on the shelf gets done. Weird Love Vol 2 is just playing hard to get but if I show patience and understanding, promise to take it out to a fancy restaurant, tell it how much I admired its older sister, Vol 1, I know it will finally open up to me, begging me to caress its satin smooth pages, to linger over its vibrant colors, to play my finger along its spine as it reveals all that lies within .... Man, I'm getting excited about this You going to be okay there, Ish? I'll be fine. I ate some oysters last night. Needed a shower with your type of water |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2016 18:49:36 GMT -5
I found this in a store today:  So! Thanks to this thread, I bought it. It's all mine. MINEEEEEE. <3 |
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 7, 2016 2:13:51 GMT -5
Girls' Love Stories #114
October, 1965 Story One: Monia is too nice for her own good. See, every time she meets a boy she likes, she ends up introducing him to one of her female friends instead. Then they hook up, and Monica the Matchmaker is left lonely and broken hearted. This happens over and over again. One day, though, she runs into a friend and discovers that the friend dumped the guy Monica set her up with. Monica races over to the boy's house and declares her undying love for him before he can meet anyone else. Trapped, he agrees to go out with her. THE END!! Story Two: This story goes from creepy, to bizarre, to downright disturbing. So... it's a keeper. Leslie loves Donny. And Donny loves Leslie. Well, right up until he suddenly doesn't. He can't say why, but it sucks for both of them. More Leslie, though, because try as she might, she just can't get Donny out of her head. Literally: every guy she sees or dates or kisses, she hallucinates as Donny. It's freaky:  Finally, she goes to a doctor. He checks her out in every sense of that phrase and is like, physically you're fine, but I can tell that the real problem is that you're lonely. I know this because I, too, am lonely. So the only way to cure your loneliness is to sleep with me! Since it's her doctor, she trusts his diagnosis and they do it. THE END!! Okay, so they just kiss, but that's the code era. Story Three: This one is maybe even more of a doozy than the last one. See, Renee likes guys. She enjoys going on dates, and when she likes her date, she enjoys kissing them. Seems legit, right. But no. Problem is, she kisses them like she means it, and they keep assuming she must be in love with them. Otherwise, how could she possibly give such passionate kisses. It must be love! Jeff certainly thinks so. But when Renee tells him that she merely really likes him a lot, he bugs out on her, "because your kind of kisses are the kind a girl gives when she is in love!" He storms off in a rage, never to see her trampy face again. It's kind of okay, because soon she starts dating Freddie. They really hit it off, enough so that he eventually proposes. But she has to tell him that she doesn't love him. He can't believe it! Why? Because "that's impossible! The way you kissed me, you must love me! What kind of girl are you, anyway?" What kind, indeed. You damn hussy with your kissing men you like! WHORE! Soon, she meets Vic. They kiss! He likes it, enough that he just has to ask how she could possibly know how to kiss so well. She's like, uh, because I like kissing? Vic gets suspicious and starts snooping around. He gets word that she has indeed kissed other men. She actually says to him, you know, you're pretty good at this kissing thing too, dude. His reply? "A man's supposed to know how to kiss a girl." Finally, he loses it. "How can I trust your kisses after you gave them away to every Tom, Dick and Harry? I'd respect you more if it hadn't been so easy." Then he does a heel turn and walks out on her forever. What a complete jackass. Then, she meets Eric. It's great, but now she's, like, completely petrified of kissing him because he might brand her forehead with a burning scarlet letter. Still, she decides she has to be true to herself, so she kisses him. And enjoys it. Blasphemer! This fills her with terror, so she blurts out that she's kissed other guys, and by god, she liked it. Eric is all... yeah, so what? And then they make out, secure in the knowledge that neither one of them is a judgmental jagoff. THE END!!! Welcome to the 1960's!! Notes: Notice anything odd about the cover? Take another look. Give up? They forgot to put the word "stories" on the cover, so the logo just reads Girls' Love. It's possible this was intentional, as the usual placement would put it in conflict with those floating ghost heads. But it's a little weird. Also weird, and terribly disappointing: no April O'Day. Looks like the days of insanity, random boy-hopping, and questionable celebrity caricatures are over. That's a bummer, I was getting into it. Instead, we get this completely inappropriate story about a doctor pressuring his patient into giving him action! What the hell! That's a lawsuit now. Hell, that's jail time! It's certainly not the type of hero I want to see in my romance comics. Luckily, Creepy Sexual Predator Doctor is not one of the options in the survey published this issue to help them figure out what kind of men they should feature in upcoming issues:  GCD credits for this issue: Story One: John Rosenberger Story Two: Arthur Peddy and Bernard Sachs Story Three: John Rosenberger My Grade: B. The first story was a snoozer, but man, the other two delivered with some insane 60's-era sexual politics!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 8:24:37 GMT -5
Girls' Love Stories #114
October, 1965Story One: Monia is too nice for her own good. See, every time she meets a boy she likes, she ends up introducing him to one of her female friends instead. Then they hook up, and Monica the Matchmaker is left lonely and broken hearted. This happens over and over again. One day, though, she runs into a friend and discovers that the friend dumped the guy Monica set her up with. Monica races over to the boy's house and declares her undying love for him before he can meet anyone else. Trapped, he agrees to go out with her. THE END!! Story Two: This story goes from creepy, to bizarre, to downright disturbing. So... it's a keeper. Leslie loves Donny. And Donny loves Leslie. Well, right up until he suddenly doesn't. He can't say why, but it sucks for both of them. More Leslie, though, because try as she might, she just can't get Donny out of her head. Literally: every guy she sees or dates or kisses, she hallucinates as Donny. It's freaky: Finally, she goes to a doctor. He checks her out in every sense of that phrase and is like, physically you're fine, but I can tell that the real problem is that you're lonely. I know this because I, too, am lonely. So the only way to cure your loneliness is to sleep with me! Since it's her doctor, she trusts his diagnosis and they do it. THE END!! Okay, so they just kiss, but that's the code era. Story Three: This one is maybe even more of a doozy than the last one. See, Renee likes guys. She enjoys going on dates, and when she likes her date, she enjoys kissing them. Seems legit, right. But no. Problem is, she kisses them like she means it, and they keep assuming she must be in love with them. Otherwise, how could she possibly give such passionate kisses. It must be love! Jeff certainly thinks so. But when Renee tells him that she merely really likes him a lot, he bugs out on her, "because your kind of kisses are the kind a girl gives when she is in love!" He storms off in a rage, never to see her trampy face again. It's kind of okay, because soon she starts dating Freddie. They really hit it off, enough so that he eventually proposes. But she has to tell him that she doesn't love him. He can't believe it! Why? Because "that's impossible! The way you kissed me, you must love me! What kind of girl are you, anyway?" What kind, indeed. You damn hussy with your kissing men you like! WHORE! Soon, she meets Vic. They kiss! He likes it, enough that he just has to ask how she could possibly know how to kiss so well. She's like, uh, because I like kissing? Vic gets suspicious and starts snooping around. He gets word that she has indeed kissed other men. She actually says to him, you know, you're pretty good at this kissing thing too, dude. His reply? "A man's supposed to know how to kiss a girl." Finally, he loses it. "How can I trust your kisses after you gave them away to every Tom, Dick and Harry? I'd respect you more if it hadn't been so easy." Then he does a heel turn and walks out on her forever. What a complete jackass. Then, she meets Eric. It's great, but now she's, like, completely petrified of kissing him because he might brand her forehead with a burning scarlet letter. Still, she decides she has to be true to herself, so she kisses him. And enjoys it. Blasphemer! This fills her with terror, so she blurts out that she's kissed other guys, and by god, she liked it. Eric is all... yeah, so what? And then they make out, secure in the knowledge that neither one of them is a judgmental jagoff. THE END!!! Welcome to the 1960's!! Notes: Notice anything odd about the cover? Take another look. Give up? They forgot to put the word "stories" on the cover, so the logo just reads Girls' Love. It's possible this was intentional, as the usual placement would put it in conflict with those floating ghost heads. But it's a little weird. Also weird, and terribly disappointing: no April O'Day. Looks like the days of insanity, random boy-hopping, and questionable celebrity caricatures are over. That's a bummer, I was getting into it. Instead, we get this completely inappropriate story about a doctor pressuring his patient into giving him action! What the hell! That's a lawsuit now. Hell, that's jail time! It's certainly not the type of hero I want to see in my romance comics. Luckily, Creepy Sexual Predator Doctor is not one of the options in the survey published this issue to help them figure out what kind of men they should feature in upcoming issues: GCD credits for this issue: Story One: John Rosenberger Story Two: Arthur Peddy and Bernard Sachs Story Three: John Rosenberger My Grade: B. The first story was a snoozer, but man, the other two delivered with some insane 60's-era sexual politics! Wow. That's some GLORIOUS Obvious Sexism in those stories. I'm glad that Freddie put Renee in her place, though, I mean, a slut needs to know she's a slut if she knows how to kiss and likes kissing guys, but a guy who knows how to kiss is either a champ and magical for just knowing how to kiss girls, or it's completely A-OK that he kisses just as many girls as Renee has kissed guys. We're JUST SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS. And accept it. And the doctor story? That's as fantastic as the cover posted in the sexy cover thread with the underage daughter (of the women's lib mother) who uses her body to compete with a man for jobs. Incredible. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 8:29:48 GMT -5
Girls' Love Stories #114
October, 1965Notes: Notice anything odd about the cover? Take another look. Give up? They forgot to put the word "stories" on the cover, so the logo just reads Girls' Love. It's possible this was intentional, as the usual placement would put it in conflict with those floating ghost heads. But it's a little weird. Also weird, and terribly disappointing: no April O'Day. Looks like the days of insanity, random boy-hopping, and questionable celebrity caricatures are over. That's a bummer, I was getting into it. Instead, we get this completely inappropriate story about a doctor pressuring his patient into giving him action! What the hell! That's a lawsuit now. Hell, that's jail time! It's certainly not the type of hero I want to see in my romance comics. Luckily, Creepy Sexual Predator Doctor is not one of the options in the survey published this issue to help them figure out what kind of men they should feature in upcoming issues: GCD credits for this issue: Story One: John Rosenberger Story Two: Arthur Peddy and Bernard Sachs Story Three: John Rosenberger My Grade: B. The first story was a snoozer, but man, the other two delivered with some insane 60's-era sexual politics! My ex-girlfriend used to send in a postcard stating all the time that she wants a dark-haired young man to be the hero in these issues. The Creepy Sexual Predator Doctor is exactly the kind of entertainment that she wants. I just wanted to share that ... |
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Post by MDG on Feb 7, 2016 11:11:27 GMT -5
I'm only three issues into the Young Love showcase, but a couple observations:
The splash page of The Private Diary of Mary Robin, R.N. stories are a cropped stat of the cover.
The same image is redrawn again somewhere near the end of the story.
Most of the characters are jerks; the ones that aren't are pathetic.
85% of the panels contain something that probably seems "wrong" to current sensibilities.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 11:14:15 GMT -5
I'm only three issues into the Young Love showcase, but a couple observations: The splash page of The Private Diary of Mary Robin, R.N. stories are a cropped stat of the cover. The same image is redrawn again somewhere near the end of the story. Most of the characters are jerks; the ones that aren't are pathetic. 85% of the panels contain something that probably seems "wrong" to current sensibilities. And this is why we read these stories. In complete fascinating disbelief. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 7, 2016 13:58:23 GMT -5
I found this in a store today: So! Thanks to this thread, I bought it. It's all mine. MINEEEEEE. <3 Oh my...Wally Wood. I'm going to need that. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 14:22:22 GMT -5
I found this in a store today: So! Thanks to this thread, I bought it. It's all mine. MINEEEEEE. <3 Oh my...Wally Wood. I'm going to need that. Yes, you will need it. It's a very pretty book. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 7, 2016 15:21:24 GMT -5
Hey guys, let's talk about design! So, the last issue I reviewed was #114, with a cover date of October, 1965. Just as a refresher, the cover looked like this: Notwithstanding the fact that the left off the word "stories" from this cover, this design is pretty much the same as it had been right from issue #1 back in 1949. The logo was originally a little skinnier and more flowery, but that changed in 1952 when they went to this logo with #14. So for a hundred issues, this was what you saw. By 1965, though, this was starting to look a little old fashioned. It's interesting, when you look back at the 60's now, people think of flower power and hippies and wild and crazy clothes. But that didn't really get going until the late 60's. Even through the mid-60's, the fashions were still conservative - sport coat and tie for the boys, pillbox hat and Jackie Kennedy styling for the girls. One of the most amazing and revealing clips illustrating the truly seismic change in fashion, design, style and culture in general that happened in the late 60's is the clip of Dick Clark introducing the Beatles new video for Strawberry Fields on March 11, 1967. The full clip isn't available online, but if you ever have a chance to see it, it's a real revelation. The audience, even as late as 1967, is mostly still in conservative early-60's clothing, though there are some mid-60's styles mixed in that are muted due to the black and white footage. BUt it's very buttoned down, especially for an era which we now think of as being wild and crazy. Dick begins by asking the audience about the Beatles, and they are mostly dismissive; the Beatles are yesterday's news. Then he shows the clip and it's like an LSD bomb - the Beatles are already in full Sgt. Pepper mode, with beards, spaced out fashion, and psychaedlic colors. The contrast between what they are doing and what the audience is doing is amazing. After the video, Clark intevews the audience again, and they are almost all dumbfounded and confused. Except one guy who just can't keep from grinning ear to ear as he tells Dick "that was great!" He gets it immediately, while the others don't. But they would get it soon. Within just a couple months, what the Beatles were doing and wearing would become a fashion and style tidal wave. For me, the clip is an incredible before and after, watershed moment. Here's a truncated version of it, which is the best I could find, but if you can ever see the whole thing it's totally worth tracking down: So, this brings us back to the design for Girls' Love Stories. After 117 issues and 17 years worth of conservative design that had begun to look a little outdated, DC abruptly revamped the design of the title - and all their romance titles - to correspond with the new Go-Go Checks design that their entire line of comics adopted with the February, 1966 issues. The first Go-Go Checks issue is #117, and the new logo debuts with #118. Now, the Go-Go Checks era is fun for nostalgia reasons, and just because it's goofy, but for the most part, it's a bizarre and out of place design element on most of DC's books. It just looks weird on the superhero titles, and it's totally out of place on the war and western books. But you know where the Go-Go Checks actually look fantastic? On the romance titles. And it's not just the checks here, or even the brand new, bold logo. Out go the muted color schemes and pastels of the previous era, in come bold, sharp colors. Eye-popping black and yellow start appearing a lot on these new look covers, along with more dramatic and less static poses and scenes. Just like that, the series suddenly looks modern, new, bold. It's like a sudden bucket of cold water to the face. Here's a look, from the next issue I'll be reviewing, #119. What a difference a couple issues can make: |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 16:38:42 GMT -5
I am thinking about starting a Romance Comics thread. One where we all can either discuss romance comics, or make purchasing suggestions, talk about various stories, creators, artists, etc.
That way I can talk about the stories I've read without feeling like I'm totally interfering with Crimebuster's review thread.
Yay or nay?
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