We begin with "My Father's Wife" by Jack Oleck and Tony DeZuniga. When Sherry's father remarries, she refuses to accept her new young stepmother and nearly drives her boyfriend away with her vicious attitude.
Next is "The Day I Fell in Love" by Robert Kanigher and John Romita reprinted from Falling in Love #59 (1963). Mary has wanted to be a successful actress for many years and has neglected her personal life to do so. This makes her unable to portray a woman in love onstage until she meets and falls for director Vincent May.
We end with "The Story of Karen" drawn by Jack Katz and Vince Colletta. Kathy is shocked when she begins to have feelings for another man while her fiance is away.
Jack Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 27, 1927. He attended the School of Industrial Art in New York City and began his comics career in 1943 working in the C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza studio on Bulletman. Katz used a number of pseudonyms such as Jay Hawk, Vaughn Beering, Alac Justice, Alec Justice, and David Hadley.
From 1946 to 1951, he worked as an art assistant on various King Features Syndicate comic strips, working briefly on Terry and the Pirates as an assistant to George Wunder.
Katz went to work for Standard Comics in 1951 doing horror comics, war comics, and some romance comics until the company went out of business. From 1952 to 1956, Katz worked as a penciler and inker at the studio of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, working alongside Mort Meskin and Marvin Stein. A slow worker due to heavy detailing, Katz was let go and moved on to Timely Comics under Stan Lee around 1954 where he worked on war and horror comics, as well as Westerns. In 1955 he left mainstream comics to paint and teach art, both privately and for the YMCA in New York City.
Impressed by Jim Steranko's Captain America, Katz reentered mainstream comics in 1969 penciling Sub-Mariner #17 and three other stories for Marvel, a few stories for Skywald, and four stories for DC, this being the first.
But Jack Katz is better known for writing and drawing The First Kingdom, a 24-issue, 768-page graphic novel that took Katz 12 years to complete. The first Kingdom was published as a black and white underground comic book.
Edited by Dorothy Woolfolk.
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