Showing posts with label True Love Comics Tales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label True Love Comics Tales. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Did You Know a Black Artist Penciled the FIRST Graphic Novel from a Comics Publisher?

Graphic Novels are the standard format for innovative storytelling today...
But "back in the day", as they say, it was an untried concept!
Written by Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller (as "Drake Waller"), illustrated by penciler Matt Baker and and inker Ray Osrin, the digest-sized 1950 one-shot from St John Publications is a pulpish "film noir" tale at its' coolest!
Dark Horse Comics (which published a high-quality reprint available below) explained it thusly...
In 1950, writers Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller, both attending college on the G.I. Bill, envisioned a sophisticated, novel-length comic tailored to their peers. Collaborating with comics art master Matt Baker, known for singularly defining the genre of "good girl art" on titles such as Phantom Lady, they crafted a film-noir inspired masterwork of romance, intrigue, and moral relativity. When cynical newspaperman Hal Weber reunites with old flame Rust Masson, he finds the beguiling widow of a mining magnate willing to do anything to undermine the local political machine--her only opponent for total control of Copper City!
Though not specifically-mentioned, penciler Matt Baker was one of the few Black artists of both comic books' Golden and Silver Ages!
It Rhymes with Lust was the basis of our 2017 Summer Blogathon spanning several RetroBlogs!
Start at True Love Comics Tales and experience not only comics history, but Black history as well!
Note: The thanks of a grateful nation go to Kracalactaka, who found the scans of the St John first edition in the wilds of the internet, cleaned them up, and made them available!
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Thursday, December 3, 2020

A Hallmark Channel-type Christmas Tale...in Comic Book Form!

Ever watch a romantic Hallmark Channel Christmas movie?

Well, our "sister" RetroBlog, True Love Comics Tales, is presenting a novel-length comic story that reads exactly like one of those astonishingly-popular tearjerker flicks!
Big city girl unable to find a romantic partner journeys to the countryside to spend Christmas with relatives!
She meets a guy who she had briefly (and klutzilly) encountered back in the city!
Note: he's the very image of a potential lover she had been dreaming about for months! (hence the title)
Is it fate they encounter each other?
Or will his dark secret drive them apart?
Click HERE to find out!

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Thursday, October 1, 2020

Welcome to the Countdown to Halloween 2020 Blogathon...

...as RetroBlogs joins in the annual Countdown to Halloween Blogathon with four blogs participating!
True Love Comics Tales
...telling never-reprinted stories from the long-lost 1970s gothic romance series Haunted Love!
Click HERE

Heroines!
...featuring the never-reprinted Silver Age gothic and horror stories of...Supergirl???
Click HERE.

Medical Comics and Stories
...with sci-fi/fantasy stories involving doctors and nurses!
Click HERE.

Horror Comics of the 1950s
featuring tales that weren't reprinted...but were redone in the late 1960s and 1970s!
Click HERE.
Don't Miss Any of Them!
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Saturday, September 12, 2020

The Annual Countdown to Halloween Blogathon is coming...

...and, as usual we're enthusiastically-participating, starting with...
...never reprinted Silver/Bronze Age gothic and horror stories featuring The CW's favorite heroine in
Then, witness tales of terror from the 1950s...
...that were redone, not reprinted in the 1960s-70s...
...in
And, finally, never-reprinted gothic romance stories from...
...the short-lived, but fondly-remembered Haunted Love in
All begin the first week in October and run weekly though the macabre month!
Plus, every RetroBlog will have at one or more horror-themed posts!
BookMark and Don't Miss Them!
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Sunday, August 30, 2020

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Presented a Most Excellent Conclusion...

(You'll understand when you read it!)
We hope you enjoyed it, and will keep all our RetroBlogs bookmarked!
(And the Summer Blogathon WILL Return Next Summer!)
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Saturday, July 18, 2020

RetroBlogs' Summer Blogathons Continue...

There's much more coming, so don't miss any of them!
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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Have A SUPER Summer with RetroBlogs Blogathons!

We've already begun...
...as the CW's favorite heroine, Supergirl, discovers summer camp is anything but fun!
Next week...
More Supergirl fun as we re-present one of her wildest, never-reprinted, adventures!
PLUS: Superman experiences the Kryptonian version of Covid-19 in the first chapter of a never-reprinted, multi-part saga at Hero Histories!
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Sunday, July 5, 2020

Stay Safe by Sheltering in Place with RetroBlogs' Summer Blogathons...

...we'll keep you entertained with time-lost rare and never-reprinted tales you'll find only at...
...our newest RetroBlog
Plus...
...controversial Western tales featuring TV's Confederate protagonists the Gray Ghost and the Rebel at
and
Barbaric action in the Conan/Kull tradition at
...along with the already-announced
Perry Mason...whose never-reprinted comic books will show you why the new HBO series is closer than you think to the early novels!
Check out
Crime & Punishment
for his hard-boiled adventures!
And, to make it a Super-Summer Blogathon...
The book-length saga of Superman dying from "Virus X" was one of the classic (and often reprinted) Silver Age tales of the Man of Steel!
But. that's not what we're showing...since it's been reprinted numerous times over the years (and deservedly so)!
Did you know it was re-conceived as an expanded, multi-part, never-reprinted, story in Action Comics several years later?
That's what you'll see at
Hero Histories
in July!
Plus, we're presenting not one, but two Blogathons featuring the Man of Steel's cousin in stories unseen for 50 years!

Several of Supergirl's (somewhat kinky) romances in
True Love Comics Tales!
And...

The Maiden of Might's weirdest, wildest adventures in
Heroines!
There's still more (we have to keep you entertained and safe), but you'll have to be back next Sunday to find out about them...
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

The Summer Blogathons Return...

Yep, it's that time of year, when Atomic Kommie Comics present...
The RetroBlog Summer Blogathon!
...featuring batches of fascinating stuff from our vaults (almost all never-reprinted), in one or two-week blocks of daily entries, giving you a chance to sit back and enjoy complete stories that you haven't seen in years...or have only heard about, but never read, like...
Perry Mason...whose never-reprinted comic books will show you why the new HBO series is closer than you think to the early novels!
Check out Crime & Punishment for his hard-boiled adventures!
And to make it a Super-Summer Blogathon...
The book-length saga of Superman dying from "Virus X" was one of the classic (and often reprinted) Silver Age tales of the Man of Steel!
But. that's not what we're showing...since it's been reprinted numerous times over the years (and deservedly so)!
Did you know it was re-conceived as an expanded, multi-part, never-reprinted, story in Action Comics several years later?
That's what you'll see at Hero Histories in July!
Plus, we're presenting not one, but two Blogathons featuring the Man of Steel's cousin in stories unseen for 50 years!

Several of Supergirl's (somewhat kinky) romances in True Love Comics Tales!
And...

The Maiden of Might's weirdest, wildest adventures in Heroines!
There's even more, but you'll have to be back next Sunday to find out about them...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Love in the Time of Covid-19!

Currently (and for the foreseeable future) our "sister" RetroBlog...
(There seem to be a lot of them, most involving nurses and handsome doctors!)
Click HERE if you want to cry your eyes out!
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Saturday, March 28, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics...Because Somebody Has to Take Your Minds Off the Current Disaster...

...by presenting tales of fictional epidemics both on this blog...
...and our other RetroBlogs, including...
(you'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories involve disease)...
...Heroines...
...and, this week, the remainder of the RetroBlogs will have CoronaVirus-themed posts!
Plus, we're introducing a new RetroBlog...Medical Comics...dedicated to tales of doctors, nurses, technicians, even orderlies, all of whom we literally couldn't live without!
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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Love in the Time of CoronaVirus!

For the foreseeable future, our "sister" RetroBlog...
(There seem to be a lot of them, most involving nurses and handsome doctors!)
Click HERE if you want to cry your eyes out!
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Thursday, December 26, 2019

Little Women: the Comic Book!

...that opened Christmas Day!
But, did you know there was a comic book adaptation...done over 30 years ago?
Our "sister" RetroBlog, True Love Comics Tales, is running the story (which was actually part of a read-along book and record set) now and next Wednesday!
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