"Yep -- your gramps was a swinger!"That's all for me folks! I am going on vacation to see some family for the holiday weekend. I hope you all have a wonderful Labor Day! See you next week!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Fashion Files - Dates 'N' Mates!
The weather has been gloriously fall-like lately, and in honor of the weather getting cooler please enjoy these fashions drawn by Jay Scott Pike from Young Romance #157 (December 1968/January 1969). I know it is not this cool out yet, but one can dream!
"Yep -- your gramps was a swinger!"
That's all for me folks! I am going on vacation to see some family for the holiday weekend. I hope you all have a wonderful Labor Day! See you next week!
"Yep -- your gramps was a swinger!"That's all for me folks! I am going on vacation to see some family for the holiday weekend. I hope you all have a wonderful Labor Day! See you next week!
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Jacque - here are a few romance house ads you might find interesting. Feel free to add them to your blog if you like.
ReplyDeleteGirls’ Love Stories 1 (Aug-Sep 1949)- DC’s first romance title: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Osgood39/GirlsLove1Aug-Sep1949.jpg
Girl’s Love Stories 43/Girls’ Romances 41 (Sep-Oct 1956) – good sample of 50s romance ad:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Osgood39/Album%202/GLS43-GR41-Sep-Oct1956.jpg
Secret Hearts 110 (Mar 1966) – “Reach for Happiness” – the start of DC’s longest running romance serial:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Osgood39/ReachforHappiness1.jpg
Heart Throbs 102 (Jun-Jul 1966) “3 Girls..Their Lives..Their Loves” – the start of DC’s other long-running romance serial:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Osgood39/3Girls1966.jpg
Girl’s Romances 135 (Sep 1968) – melodramic late 60s ad:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Osgood39/GirlsRomance1968.jpg
Girls’ Love Stories 138 (Oct 1968) – catchy ad with rare Infantino romance cover:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Osgood39/GirlsLove138Oct1968.jpg
Wonder Woman 181 (Mar-Apr 1969) – interesting bit of cross-genre marketing – promoting the “mod” Diana Prince Wonder Woman to the romance readership:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Osgood39/modww1969.jpg
I also took the liberty of posting the "Marc" column into the long-running DC house ad thread you can find over here:
http://marvelmasterworksfansite.yuku.com/topic/1528/t/DC-House-Ads-From-the-30s-to-the-70s.html?page=41
Take care, and thanks again!
Osgood! Wow, thanks for all those great links!!! I have a few of those, but a couple I had never seen before. I just might use them here and there, so thanks again! I am always excited to meet other people out there that enjoy romance comics as much as I do!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome site! You can't explain to someone why stuff like this is fantastic...nice to see there's a place on the net for it.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you are enjoying the site! :)
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