Adventures 01 - In Romance (1949) (St. John) (JVJ-Two-Dar)
Ooh, boy, this is a neat one from
JVJ's collection, big thanks to him for sharing and also thanks to
Twoby for the scan work.
I've been interested in this series since reading the Leonard Starr in John Benson's book on the St. John romances. Accompanying the interview is the photo used as reference for this excellent cover. The model used in the photo is Nadine French King who in another interview in the book describes running the office for St. John (Nadine appears on the back cover of this issue, they worked together on some sort of in-house merchandising). Jim didn't include the index for this one because the full index on the St. John books is available here
http://www.fantagraphics.com/downloads/stjohnchecklist.pdf which lists this issue's contents as:
ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE 1, November 1949. Cover: painting by KING Oversized pages.
KING September Squall
STARR Stopgap: the Saga of Coby Nash
BOLLE Heels Over Head in Love
STARR The Black Lily
I think you can tell they put some effort into the issue. I most definitely had a good time working on it. The layout is kind of irregular, and, in some places the pages sort of spill into one another or the printing drifts off the page, but it's kind of neat that way
At the ftp, and at
http://www.mediafire.com/?wnuqivzlxmoEnjoy and thanks to all the other site scanners, administrators, donators, etc. It's always such fun to have a big stack of "new" golden age comics around to read.