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What are the rarest romance comics?
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4 hours ago, Inaflash said:

These are terrific. Look at that redhead’s hair. ❤️

It's hard to tell sometimes with the DC romance bullpen, but I believe the penciller is Mike Sekowsky.  And at the very tip top of his game.  Drawing romance wasn't easy, most failed miserably, as to do it realistically required more of an illustrator's skill set than a cartoonist's.

Speaking of skill set, and DC, and since reviving old posts and old pics is a time honored tradition in GA threads, let's pay homage again to Ira Schnapp, the visionary letterer, logo and in-house ad designer for almost 30 years at DC.

Here's a fantastic recurring back cover montage once posted by @adamstrange

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but there were also one off back covers as well

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Ira Schnapp was honored in a retrospective exhibit hosted by the Type Directors Club in NYC in 2015. 

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What's also interesting about Ira Schnapp is that his career illustrates to some extent how interwoven the NYC Jewish familial and community relationships were into the comic industry.  Of course we all know about Stanley Lieber and Martin Goodman, but how about this complex web:

"Several members of Ira Schnapp's family and extended family were also involved in the comics business. His father's brother (or cousin) Wolf Schnapp had a son Solomon who married Faye Liebowitz, the sister of Jack Liebowitz, the co-owner of National (DC) Comics. One of their sons was Jay (Schnapp) Emmett, who began as a National employee and worked his way up to President of Warner Communications. Solomon and Faye's daughter Carol married Irwin Donenfeld, son of the other owner of National Comics, Harry Donenfeld. Schnapp was more closely related to Fred Iger, head of the American Comics Group. Iger was the son of Schnapp's sister Lee, making him Schnapp's nephew."

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10 minutes ago, Dr. Love said:

Here's a fantastic recurring back cover montage once posted by @adamstrange

 

The picture's mine but the comics were courtesy of the physician of romance!

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