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| I don't know about this Anderson fella, but that sure looks like Graham Ingels on "I Didn't Want Him Back!" |
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| No, Drusilla, that's the fabulous Harry Anderson. He started in the 1940s as a studio mate of Mac Raboy and went on to produce increasingly nice artwork for a number of publishers. Some of his last work was for Stan Lee's weird titles in the mid-1950s. Around 1954-1955 Anderson dumped the comics industry in the middle of a job and moved across the country to California, where he finished out his career as staff artist for a municipal agency.
Incidentally, comic artist Harry Anderson is not the same as illustrator Harry Anderson who worked during the same period painting illustrations for mainstream magazines and Seventh Day Adventist publications. |
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| Well crash, being familiar with Ingels' work and not Anderson's, when I saw that piece I just naturally thought it was the former. But since this was 1953 and a St. Johns comic... and Ingels probably had more than enough work at EC... and both you and JVJ are familiar with Anderson, I'll concede that I'm mistaken. :)
By the way, I thought the couple on the cover looked familiar, they're the same pair who appeared on the cover of Standards' "Thrilling Romances," issue #18 (Mar, 52). |
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| @Drusilla lives! - If I could only point to one artist if someone wanted me to recommend what early 1950s romance comic book art to look at out of a curious interest, then it would probably be Harry Anderson. I’m not sure how passionate he personally felt about the romance stories he was drew for, but in any case, he definitely seemed willing to experiment around and be creative enough to the point that he could display even the most otherwise mundane romance stories with an almost fantastically surreal-like quality to them. He could be drawing a simple living room conversation scene and somehow manage to make that look dramatic. |
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| Mind you, Norm Nodell, Sy Barry and Jim Mooney aren't to be sneezed at either! |
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| Publication | December 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bimonthly |
| Notes | According to a post on comicbookplus, the couple on the cover is "the same pair who appeared on the cover of Standards' 'Thrilling Romances,' issue #18 (Mar, 52)." |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Colors:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
| Notes | According to a post on comicbookplus, the couple on the cover is "the same pair who appeared on the cover of Standards' 'Thrilling Romances,' issue #18 (Mar, 52)." |
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| Comic Story | Caribbean Cruise (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Judy’s wealthy father gives her a yacht for her birthday. She embarks on a cruise with her rich friends. Sailor Jim won’t put up with Judy’s spoiled antics, but when he rescues her from a fire, they admit they’re in love with each other. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Judy Carlton; Mr. Carlton; Miss Holly; Jim; Tom; Captain |
| Notes | Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. |
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| Comic Story | Your Movie Manners (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
| Notes | Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. |
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| Comic Story | My Unwilling Gladiator (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Socialite Sheila decides to make boxer Biff fall in love with her. Biff goes along because the publicity will help his career. Sheila is jealous of Biff’s friendship with Peg, his manager’s daughter, and Biff breaks up with Sheila when she reveals her snobbery. Sheila discovers she really loves Biff and that he thinks of Peg as a little sister, not a girlfriend: Sheila and Biff reconcile. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Sheila Benton; Mr. Benton; Mona; Biff Bogart; Doc Madden; Peg Madden |
| Notes | Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. |
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| Comic Story | I Didn't Want Him Back! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bookstore clerk Janet falls in love with rough-hewn engineering boss Red, but refuses to move with him to South America. He leaves to sell his oil land there, but his plane crashes with no reported survivors. Janet and author Allan fall in love, then Red turns up, alive. He forces Janet at gunpoint to break up with Allan over the phone, but discards her when he realises she can never love him again. Janet and Allan are reunited. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Janet; Allan Felton; Red |
| Notes | Art credits from JVJ index card attached to online scanned copy. |
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| Comic Story | The Lore of Birthstones (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. |
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| Text Story | Absentee Lover (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Comic Story | Your Date I.Q. (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
| Notes | Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. |
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| Comic Story | Curtain Call for Love (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Marcia gets her big break in a play with famous actor Roland; he professes his love for her, even though she already has a boyfriend in dancer Freddie. Freddie, jealous, breaks up with her and Marcia agrees to marry Roland on the rebound. However, she eventually realizes Roland is too old for her: he admits it, and helps Marcia reconcile with Freddie. |
| Content | Genre: Romance | Characters: Marcia Woods; Roland Evans; Freddie King; Lee |
| Notes | Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. |
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