As
the 1940’s blended into the 50’s and while other publishers tried
to diversify their product lines, MLJ took a different route. Their
‘golden goose’ was Archie and the company focused upon producing
product either using the “Riverdale universe” of characters or
with humor product of a similar nature. It’s hard to argue this
strategy seeing as the company, now known as Archie Comics, is still
thriving today by maintaining this approach. But they did dabble with
other genres upon occasion and one was Romance. From 1949 through
1952 they published a pair of titles called DARLING LOVE and DARLING
ROMANCE.
Newly
returned MLJ veteran, Harry Lucey was given a few assignments for
these titles. Today I’m exhibiting his work from DARLING LOVE #8.
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