Paw,
I gotta admit as a kid I wouldn't have touched a romance comic to read unless I had absolutely exhausted every other possibility but as years went by and I got older I started appreciating artists and began occasionally looking through some and found that a number of them contained some really fine art.
Seems that there are so many JVJ romance comics getting scanned lately that I can't keep up with 'em all.
These titles from Standard are especially interesting because it was at Standard that ALex Toth finally got a chance to let loose and mature as an artist after years of being stifled by editors like Julius Schwartz at DC. Standard's art director, Mike Peppe, seems to have been particularly enamored with what Toth was doing then and inked a number of Alex's stories himself.
Other artists working for Standard at that time, such as Mike Sekowsky and Ross Andru for example, seem to have picked up on what Toth was doing and started incorporating his approach into their own work at this time too, which, IMHO, improved their work from that period onward.
Best
Joe
