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davemerrillStupid Comics ROCKS YOUR WORLD with a tedious exercise in tedium starring a Private Secretary who immediately quits her job as a private secretary and goes to Europe to kiss a lot of strange men and spend all her money. It's all waiting for you at Stupid Comics!
This one is one of the more boring comics of the 20th century. It's a Dell so it's 32 solid pages of 6-panel grids of Vince Coletta inks of our Private Secretary blowing through her cash buying sweaters in England and perfume in France and not having enough money for a trip home. Who this comic was intended for is a mystery; too boring for children, too boring for adults, too boring for secretary-fetishists, if such a thing exists. I get the feeling that Western Litho HAD TO KEEP THE PRESSES RUNNING and bad comics would just make their way through the pipeline of production regardless of appeal. That's my theory anyways.
This one is one of the more boring comics of the 20th century. It's a Dell so it's 32 solid pages of 6-panel grids of Vince Coletta inks of our Private Secretary blowing through her cash buying sweaters in England and perfume in France and not having enough money for a trip home. Who this comic was intended for is a mystery; too boring for children, too boring for adults, too boring for secretary-fetishists, if such a thing exists. I get the feeling that Western Litho HAD TO KEEP THE PRESSES RUNNING and bad comics would just make their way through the pipeline of production regardless of appeal. That's my theory anyways.
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Date: 2013-07-13 03:05 pm (UTC)It's a 'romance' novel. It's completely and totally a visual romance novel.
I know we're all accustomed to visualize a book cover with Fabio in a puffy pirate shirt, all torn and windblown with the beautiful heroine surrendering (not TOO willingly, for the sake of modesty!) to his beefy charms, but this was much more 'standard' back in the day.
See, if this was a romance COMIC, her ultimate mate would have been the cruise ship officer who would rescue her from her problem. But a Romance NOVEL, our rather self-focused gal has to go thru a STRING of short term affairs until she gets it out of her system and goes back to an improved version of her starting point.
Does that make any sense?
The Romance novel market is, well, was, I'm guessing still is, HUGE. And insanely devoted. You think comic fans get upset when they can't get their 'fix' every week RIGHT ON RELEASE DAY? That's nothing to the way the romance readers react if their 'usual' books (bought by publisher, doesn't matter who the writer is. Imagine a comic book dude who comes in and buys only DC comics. ALL of them, every week.) aren't on the racks that first Tuesday of the month. Man, I recall I couldn't fill the spinner rack fast enough.
Knowing this is a 'thing', I can easily imagine Dell wanting to try and tap into that.
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Date: 2013-07-13 11:46 pm (UTC)