Falling in Love #124

Falling in Love #124 (On Sale: May 6, 1971), has a cover by maybe Bob Oksner. Not sure, he may be inking someone else.

We begin with "Anybody's Girl!" drawn by Werner Roth and Vince Colletta. Barbara works as an exotic dancer, tossing her garter to the men at the end of her act. Tired of being groped, Barbara quits her job and becomes a waitress in a diner. There she meets Cliff and falls in love. After Cliff proposes, she meets his brother, Jonah, who does not approve of her racy clothes and makeup. Barbara takes Jonah's criticism to heart as she knows she is just a dancer at heart. She feels that Jonah so disapproves of her that she hides from Cliff during the day and asks him to meet her in the barn one night to explain her feelings, but Jonah catches them, and accusations fly. 

Barbara decides to leave Cliff as Jonah requests and writes Jonah a note saying how she knows he is right about her, but when she goes to put it in one of his drawers she sees something that changes her mind. She runs to Cliff and demands that they be married today. When Jonah reacts she tells him she knows all about him. Jonah does not say a word, just walks off and Barbara's memories reveal that Jonah had one of her garters in his drawer.

Next is "Moonlight Madness!" by persons unknown and reprinted from Falling in Love #1 (1955). Linda is bored with her life and a boyfriend she doesn't love until she meets Paul late at night on the beach. She immediately falls in love with him but as time passes and he never contacts her again she fears that that night didn't mean anything to him. Days go by but one day Paul shows up and tells her that when they met he was in a relationship, but that ended after meeting her.

We end with "Puppy Love!" drawn by John Celardo and Nick Cardy. Sheila and her roommates are all interested in Quentin Reardon, but he only seems interested in his dog. Sheila buys herself a dog so that she can "accidentally" run into him while walking the dog, and her plan works perfectly.

Edited by Dorothy Woolfolk.

Secret Hearts #150

Secret Hearts #150 (On Sale: January 7, 1971), has a nice cover by Dick Giordano.

We begin with "Memories of Love" a Table of Contents written by Len Wein and drawn by Gray Morrow.

Our first story is "A Scent of Love... A Breath of Hate" drawn by Frank Langford. This is the third of four DC romance stories drawn by the British artist. Cliff meets suicidal Judy, who is clearly running away from a bad relationship, but he is determined to make her fall in love again. Unfortunately for Cliff, he succeeds. I say unfortunately because Judy is a loon, plain and simple. That they end up together in the end, is frightening. Nice artwork though; Langford was pretty good.

Next, we have another one-page Beauty on a Budget by Liz Berube. 

We follow that with "Love Would Wait" drawn by Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs and reprinted from Falling in Love #71 (1964). When sister Lisa and her boyfriend Steve take Judy out on her 16th birthday, she falls for Steve. Every year, Steve, who is on the road most of the year, returns to take Judy out on her birthday, but he is always with her sister Lisa. Finally, one year, as Steve left, he asked Lisa to let him know if she finds another and he will not return the next year. Lisa starts dating Philip and decides to dump Steve. She writes him a letter and gives it to Judy to mail, but she does not, as she wants Steve to return. 

Things get serious between Lisa and Philip and they become engaged. As preparation for the wedding begins, Steve returns. Judy lets him know about Lisa and the letter she never mailed and Steve says he would have returned anyway, as the reason he asked Lisa to be sure about him was he was falling in love with Judy.  

Next is a one-page article illustrated by John Celardo entitled "The Aquarius Woman."

This issue ends with "No Home for My Heart" drawn by Winslow Mortimer and Jack Abel. Julie is on the train home from Hollywood where she went to make it in movies. A man is staring at her on the train, but she ignores him, trapped in her thoughts of the Hollywood casting couch she has been trying to avoid. Each of her auditions ended with the director hitting on her and her leaving before anything happened, but in her letters home she bragged about how she was getting breaks and making it big. 

When she returns to her hometown, her parents tell her how they have been bragging about her to their friends and she is bombarded by a long line of suiters, all of whom make a move on her, having heard of her success in Hollywood and knowing how things work there, they assume she is "easy."  Unable to stand it at home, she decides to return to Hollywood. 

While waiting for the train, she once again sees the strange man who was staring at her on the ride in, and he confesses that he was witness to her leaving a few of her "auditions" and had fallen for her. The two of them decide to go off together to try and make it in New York.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Young Romance #170

Young Romance #170 (On Sale: December 8, 1970), has a cover by Dick Giordano.

We begin with our cover story, "Love Is a Swinger" by Robert Kanigher, Werner Roth, and Vince Colletta. Michelle is engaged to a wonderful guy but feels his ring is an anchor dragging her down as she envisions their future. She takes off his ring and plans to give it back to him when he takes her to a discotheque one evening. Before she can tell him how she feels, she is stunned to see him get up and dance with the attractive singer playing there. She later catches him kissing Lily Martin and realizes that she does love him, now that she has lost him. But Dick had just been using Lily to try to forget Michelle when he had noticed she had taken his ring off. Apparently, Lily is to be a reoccurring character, known as The Swinger.

Next is "The Test of Time" drawn by Tony Abruzzo and Bill Draut and reprinted from Falling in Love #67 (1964). Sue gets engaged and invites her brother to come for the weekend to reveal her big surprise. When Jim arrives, he has his own surprise as he is also engaged and arrives with his fiancee. They plan to have a two-week celebration before their wedding, but before the two weeks are up Sue and Jim catch their partners kissing each other.

Next is a Beauty on a Budget one-pager by Liz Berube.

That is followed by "Will I See Him?" by Joe Gill, John Celardo, and Vince Colletta. After breaking up with Lew, Anne goes to Joan's party wondering if she will see him there.

Next, we have "Appointment with Heartbreak" drawn by Arthur Peddy and Bernard Sachs and reprinted from Secret Hearts #39 (1957). Clay has asked Anne to meet him in the park. She assumes he is going to tell her he doesn't love her anymore because she has learned that he has been seeing another girl almost every evening while she has been out of town on an extended business trip. As she approaches Clay's bench, she decides she is not ready to face him. She finds an outdoor restaurant where she tells her story to a sympathetic stranger.

Next is another one-pager, "If You're Capricorn" by Raymond Marais and Liz Berube.

This is followed by "My Life for Yours" drawn by Gene Colan and reprinted from Falling in Love #68 (1964). Tad meets Ellen in her greenhouse after being in South America for two years. They had been in love once, but his jealousy had driven them apart and ultimately resulted in her being seriously injured when she ran away from him one evening and into an approaching car. Now she walks with a slight limp and the scar on her face is practically invisible. Tad learns that she is happy with her plant business and, most of all, loves her little girl and husband.

Next is "Love Me a Little –" drawn by Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs and reprinted from Falling in Love #64 (1964). Marge easily makes conquests of men, but then loses interest in them. Instead of going to Miami again on vacation, she thinks about staying home this year but her friend convinces her to go, thinking that one of the men who swarm Marge will settle for her instead. At the Beachcomber Hotel, Marge is attracted to a man who seems impervious to her charms.

We end with The Swinger in her second story, "Rise, Love, Rise" by Robert Kanigher, Werner Roth, and Vince Colletta. Hitchhiking after the events in "Love Is a Swinger!", Lily panics when she sees a broken bridge and forces the driver to stop. The bridge brings back memories of how Tommy died. They had dated for a long time, but Lily had changed while Tommy had not. After telling Tommy her feelings, he had raced off in his car and smashed through a detour barrier where was drowned in the river. Feeling guilty for Tommy's death, Lily had set off to find herself. She helps a singer overcome his fears to perform at a rock festival, then moves on.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Secret Hearts #149

Secret Hearts #149 (On Sale: November 19, 1970), has a cover by Dick Giordano.

We begin with our cover story, "David" by Gerry Conway, Alex Toth, and Dick Giordano. Nurse Irene Vickers is shocked when her ex-fiance David is brought into the hospital after a car accident, but she still mistakenly believes that David cheated on her with her sister Lois.

Next, we have "The Sagittarian Woman" an illustrated text article by Raymond Marais and John Celardo.

That is followed by "The Only Girl for Him!" by Len Wein, Win Mortimer, and John Rosenberger. When Adrienne and Peggy compare notes about their new boyfriends they believe that they are dating the same guy, but it turns out they are twins.

Next is a one-page gag strip featuring The Mis-Adventures of Penelope Potter entitled "The Hint!" drawn by John Celardo and Vince Colletta. Guy thinks that Penelope wants to be kissed, but she slaps him and says she wasn't hinting at that at all.

The next story is "A Shared Love!" by Joe Gill, John Celardo, and John Celardo. Pamela buys Ian's old roadster when he's low on cash, but when his fortunes change he wants the car back. He starts to date her and Pamela realizes that he can get the car back if they get married.

We end with "Don't Bet on Love" drawn by Jay Scott Pike and reprinted from Falling in Love #64 (1964). Vicki and her friend Inez wager to see which will be the first to date the new gas station attendant, who doesn't seem to notice either of them.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Secret Hearts #145

Secret Hearts #145 (On Sale: May 21, 1970) has a cover said to be by Bill Draut, but I see other hands at work on this.

We begin with "I Have Him Now" by Joe Gill and Bill Draut. Lenora schemes to take Calvin away from her cousin Sally, but when she wins and marries Cal, she finds that he's a compulsive gambler who only married her because he though she was richer than her cousin and he needed more money for gambling.

Following that is a one-pager entitled "Gemini Woman" by Raymond Marais and John Celardo.

Next is "Beware of a Frenchman's Kisses" by Joe Gill, John Celardo and people claim Nick Cardy, but I don't think so. Sure a few panels here and there (mainly page 4) have a Cardy look, but that is also a Celardo look, when he got a brushy and loose. Eleanor's Aunt Mary gives her a trip to Paris as a graduation gift and accompanies her as chaperone. While visiting a museum, her aunt bows out from dinner, telling her niece to no go to Chez Angelique, as the clientele is "unspeakable." So, of course, that is where she goes and when she gets there she finds a table waiting for her with artist Paul Rowan, from the museum, already seated. He said as soon as he heard her aunt tell her not to go there that she would of course show up.  After dinner they go to a café together and he walks her home. It is there that she learns that her aunt set up the whole thing.

We end with "I Didn't Want to Do It" by Jack Miller, Jay Scott Pike and John Rosenberger. When Darrell breaks up with Ginny, she hatches a scheme to get revenge on him by enlisting her friend, Felice, to date Darrell and break up with him after he falls in love with her. The plan goes well until  Felice actually falls in love with Darrell herself. Got to say that the artwork on this story is very good.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

House of Mystery #187

House of Mystery #187 (On Sale: May 5, 1970) has another cover by Neal Adams featuring those kids. Something about the woman nestled in the tree just grabs me.

We begin with "Mask of the Red Fox" by Robert Kanigher and Alex Toth. This story is interesting in how much Cain is an active participant in a portion of it. The real treat of this story though, it Alex Toth's amazing artwork. As a kid, I was enamored of the flashy guys, Neal Adams, Al Williamson, Bernie Wrightson, and dismissive of guys like Toth. Too simplistic I thought, but I was 13, what the hell did I know.
We begin learning that the ugly witch Gretig so hated Baron Stefan's wife Sylvia, that she cursed her, tying her fate to that of a beautiful red fox. The Baron and his group of hunters is after the fox and meet Cain at the House of Mystery, the Baron's hounds sniffing and barking at the caretaker. Unable to gain satisfaction from Cain, the Baron and his group continue the hunt. Once they have left, Cain let's the fox out of his house.

Let loose, the red fox heads for the Baron's castle, while the Baron continues his hunt, him bagging a fox, but a grey one, not the red he is searching for. Returning home the hounds again pick up the scent of the red fox, but the Baron is none to happy when they return him to his castle. At the after-hunt feast, the Baron retell the story of how he first laid eyes on the red fox and how, when chasing it, he instead found, Sylvia with a sprained ankle. The Baron was infatuated and it was not long before he and Sylvia were wed and now is even more consumed by his pursuit of the red fox.

The next day, in the pouring rain, the Baron resumes his hunt for the red fox (amazing rain sequences by Toth). It is the Baron's lucky day and he corners and kills the fox. Arriving back at the castle he hands the animal over and demands that the head be mounted by dinner. Heading up stairs to tell Sylvia the good news, he finds her dead in her bed and wonders how it happened.

Next is a Room 13 gag page by Sergio Aragones.

That is followed by "Appointment Beyond the Grave" drawn by Wally Wood protégé, Wayne Howard, his third strip for DC. It is December 1943. A meeting of Manhattan Project scientist is being convened, but one scientist, Dr. Brody, is missing. As they discuss how late Brody's plane is, Brody steps from the shadows, letting them know that he is there after all.  Saying he lost his briefcase on the plane, Brody sits down and recalculates the neutron emission rates during fission of uranium. When he is completed, the scientists want to go out and celebrate, but Brody is missing again. Yeah, you guessed it; he died in a plan crash on the way to the meeting. I guess not even death could keep you away from helping to kill hundreds of thousands of Japanese.

Next is a Cain's Game Room gag page by Sergio Aragones.

We continue with "An Aura of Death" drawn by John Celardo and Mike Peppe. Herman, the abused assistant of funeral director Wurtz, gains the ability to see the angel of death hovering over people who are about to die and uses his ability to bring in business. When he asks Wurtz to make him a partner, Wurtz tells him to get out because he doesn't need him or his recommendations. He tells Herman that the townspeople refer to him as the angel of death since he is always offering his services at the scene of a death. Herman responds director that he is not the angel of death, because the angel of death is swooping down on the funeral director. We end with Herman having a new sign installed in the business he now runs.

Finally, we end with another Cain's Game Room gag page by Sergio Aragones. The entire book was reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 1 TPB.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Young Romance #166

Young Romance #166 (On Sale: April 7, 1970) has a cover by Bill Draut.

We begin with "Please, Please, Someone, Love Me!" by Jack Miller and Jay Scott Pike. 

Next is "Beauty on a Budget" a one-pager by Liz Berube.

That is followed by "Uptight" by Henry Boltinoff and Lee Elias.

We next have "A Price on My Love!" by Jack Miller, Werner Roth and Mike Esposito. 

Next is "Just No Good" by Jack Oleck, John Celardo and Jack Abel. 

We follow that with "Think Thin!!" by Elizabeth Berube. 

We end the issue with "Love Pass Me By!" by Robert Kanigher, Win Mortimer and Vince Colletta. 

 Edited by Joe Orlando.

Secret Hearts #143

Secret Hearts #143 (On Sale: February 17, 1970) has a cover that some think is penciled by Bill Draut (I think based on the guy in the background), though it looks more like Ric Estrada in the redhead's face and, no doubt, inked by Dick Giordano.

This issue begins with the eight-pager, "I Never Thought It'd End Like This"  written by Gerry Conway and drawn by John Celardo and Vinny Colletta. Marie is having a hard time adjusting to married life with new low-achiever husband John. She begins to manipulate things behind the scenes to insure his success, but one day goes too far.

Next is "Masquerade" written by Barbara Friedlander, drawn and lettered  by Alex Toth and colored by Neal Adams. Lynn blows all of her savings on four days at an exclusive resort, where she hopes to find a rich husband. Oh, I would love to see this one.

We end with "For Singles Only" also inked by Vinny Colletta. Dean comes to stay at a beachside motel where he meets Neva, the owner's daughter, but she is haunted by memories of her first love, an actor who died in a car accident. This story continues next issue.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Young Romance #164

Young Romance #164 (On Sale: December 9, 1969) has a cover inked by Vinny Colletta. Some say this is penciled by Bill Draut and some say it is Werner Roth. This is the problem with Colletta; he just destroyed people's pencils.

We begin with "The Searing Conclusion to Next Door to Love" drawn by Alex Toth and Ric Dano (Dick Giordano). Amy hears nothing but bad things about men from her mother, which makes her afraid to trust that Larry, who lives next door and is really interested in her. This was reprinted in Young Love #114.

Next is "Please... Don't Step on My Heart" by Robert Kanigher, John Celardo and Vinnie Colletta.

Next is a lovelorn letters section, Laura Penn...Your Romance Reporter with an illustration by John Romita.

That is followed by a fashion page, Dates 'n Mates drawn by Liz Berube.

We end with "I Laughed at Love" by Tony Abruzzo and Vinny Colletta. This was reprinted under a different title in Young Romance #203.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Secret Hearts #141

Secret Hearts #141 (On Sale: November 20, 1969) has a cover by Bill Draut and Vinny Colletta. This cover is based on an unused piece drawn by Dick Giordano.

We begin with "20 Miles to Heart Break" by Barbara Friedlander, Alex Toth and Vinny Colletta and reprinted in Young Love #123. A hitchhiking Melanie accepts a ride from Juan Perez. During the drive they discuss how society would never approve of them being together due to their different races. They stop at a restaurant for dinner and decide to join other couples who are dancing. However, a fight breaks out when others object to them being together. Melanie runs out of the restaurant and is hit by a car. She wakes up back at her mother's house where she learns that Juan was arrested. This is the beginning of a multi-part series.

Next is a one-pager, "From Chipmunks to Love" by Barbara Friedlander and John Celardo in which two lonely people meet while they are feeding chipmunks in the park.

That is followed by the six-pager, "Joanna" by Barbara Friedlander, Ric Estrada and Frank Giacoia. Kelly wonders if her boyfriend, Carl, is still in love with his former girlfriend, Joanna.

Next up is "My Brother... My Rival?" a two-pager inked by Bernard Sachs. Bill keeps monopolizing the attention of the guys his sister brings home, and she begins to wonder if he is now her rival. Later tells her that he knows all of them and that none of them is good enough for her.

We end with "The Girl Nobody Loved" drawn by Winslow Mortimer and Vinny Colletta. Jan lives with self doubt, not believing that the handsomest and most interesting guys could possibly want to date her. To stave off the assumed rejection, Jan settles for the more ordinary dates.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Witching Hour #6 (On Sale: October 16, 1969) has a cover by Nick Cardy.

We begin with a framing sequence that will go throughout the book by Dave Kaler, Mike Sekowsky and Dick Giordano. Mildred and Mordred visit Cynthia at her "mod" apartment, and they are none to happy about it.

The first tale is "A Face in the Crowd" by Gerry Conway, Mike Roy and Mike Peppe (some say this is the work of Don Heck, but it is not even close to Heck's style). After WWII, Arnie searches for Bulgart the Butcher, the Nazi in charge of the concentration camp where Arnie was held, to exact his revenge. His rabbi tries to talk him out of it, but he continues his search till one day, he bumps into a man in a crowd and see it is Bulgart. He chases him into an alley and takes out a gun to shoot him, but Bulgart disappears; he was never there, and Arnie realizes had he shot Bulgart, he would be no better than him. Back on the street he bumps into another man, but pays him no mind so he never sees Bulgart walk past him, just another face in the crowd.

Next is "The Doll Man" by Marv Wolfman and Jose Delbo. The tenants of the apartment building where Cyrus Caulfield lives want him gone. They are freaked out by the creepy dolls he makes, and mob mentality takes over when they burst into his apartment. Despite him having done nothing to the, the other tenants beat him to death. They then go looking for any money he might have and break into his locked bedroom where they are confronted by his monstrous dolls out for revenge.

Next we have "Treasure Hunt" by Steve Skeates, John Celardo and Dick Giordano. Jungle guide Max takes an archaeologist up river, following an old treasure map.. When Max discovers the treasure that the archaeologist is seeking behind a waterfall, he decides to kill the archaeologist and keep it for himself. He takes the man out on the boat and crashes it into some rock, hitting the man with a wrench. As he swims for shore a fog descends and when it clears he seems to be somewhere else, but he is not sure. He hears some rapids up ahead and realizes too lite that somehow he is now on the river that spawned the falls. His body lands on top of the treasure chest he wanted so badly.

We end with "Distortion," a one-pager drawn by Sid Greene. A trip to an amusement park fun house does not end well for John.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Secret Hearts #140

Secret Hearts #140 (On Sale: October 7, 1969) has a nicely done cover inked by Dick Giordano and penciled by, my guess is, Ric Estrada.

We begin with the 11-page "Half a Heart" by persons unknown. Doreen grew up loving Nelson, her older next-door neighbor, even though he never saw her in a romantic light. Doreen is devastated when he gets engaged to Elaine, but refuses to believe that she has lost him forever.

"I Stole His Love Away" by Jack Miller, John Celardo and Vinny Colletta. In this 7-pager, Leta fears that she has fallen in love with her mother's fiancé. Is it all a terrible misunderstanding?

We end with 8-pager "Lost in the Shadow of Love" which is penciled by John Rosenberger. Sheila is resigned to the fact that her friend Gloria will always attract the guys that Sheila likes.

Edited by Dick Giordano.

Hawk & the Dove #6

Hawk & the Dove #6 (On Sale: April 24, 1969) has a nice cover by Gil Kane.

The full-length Hawk & the Dove strip, "Judgment in a Small, Dark Place." is written and penciled by Gil Kane and inked by John Celardo. One night Hank and Don get to their father's office just in time to scare off a would-be kidnapper. Hank chases the bad guy as Hawk, but loses him when momentarily blinded by a passing car. The judge is unharmed, but none of them got a good look at the attacker and the judge warns the boys not to worry their mother over the incident. The next day the boys return home from school to find their house in shambles and their mother unconscious on the floor.

She had only fainted and when she comes to she says she interrupted a man kidnapping their father. Hank once again takes off alone and scours the city as Hawk looking for information on his father. He does it by busting a few heads till he learns of a hood named Max Leland who was bragging that he was going pay the judge back. Hawk breaks into Leland's apartment and more head-busting ensues.

Meanwhile Don has been scouring his father's files looking for clues and finds a chart with a familiar face, a man named Karl MacArthur who died in prison. Don realizes that they had a part-time gardener named Arthur who looked a lot like MacArthur. Don leaves and as Dove tracks down Arthur's home in the country. Snooping around he finds Arthur is holding his father in a small cage in his basement.

Hawk has gotten from Leland a description of a man he says jumped Judge Hall before Leland himself got a chance. From the description Hank realizes it is their old gardener Arthur and heads out after him. By eavesdropping Dove learns that since his father died in a cell that Judge Hall put him into, Arthur plans on seeing that the Judge is given the same fate. Dove sees that all of the windows in the house are fitted with alarms so he shimmies up the nearby power poll to cut the electricity to the house.

From that perch Dove sees Hawk running toward the house and smashing through the door. Dove cuts the lights and a fight ensues in the dark. When the lights are switched back on Hawk makes quick work of Arthur. On the final page the Judge rails against the Hawk and the Dove for endangering his life, thinking for certain that he could have talked Arthur out of it eventually without any dangerous gun play.

Hank and Don leave for school and Hank laments that maybe their father is right, maybe they should give up being the Hawk and the Dove. Maybe the whole idea of being super-heroes was a mistake. The final caption reads, "Is this the end of the Hawk and the Dove??"

It was for this book anyway. Over the next year they would appear as guests in the Teen Titans and then disappear for six years only to show up in the Teen Titans again for a three-issue run. They would make eight appearances in the 1980s before disappearing once again. Was this a concept book that was too much concept and not enough book? Maybe, though I do recall a wonderful Hawk and Dove story in Brave and the Bold years later by Alan Brennert that seemed to bring merit to the idea of the two polar-opposite brothers. I always liked the book myself, always liked the characters.

This was John Celardo's second inking job for DC, but his first in 20 years! Celardo last worked for DC in 1949 inking a Johnny Peril story in All-Star Comics #48. He started his professional career contributing sports cartoons to Street and Smith publications in 1937. He soon turned to comics, and went to the Eisner-Iger studios.

There, he did Dollman, Wonder Boy, Uncle Sam, Paul Bunyan, Espionage, Hercules, Old Witch and Zero Comics, sometimes working under the pseudonym John C. Lardo. From 1940 he also worked for Fiction House, where he drew Hawk, Red Comet, Powerman, Captain West and Kaanga. After the War, he continued his work at Fiction House, illustrating Tiger Man, Suicide Smith and others.

In the 1950s Celardo succeeded Bob Lubbers on the daily Tarzan newspaper strip. In the 1960s he also took on the writing of the Tarzan strip and introduced many new characters from outside and inside the jungle, such as Red Chinese spies. In the late 1960s, he took over The Green Berets from Joe Kubert and Davy Jones from Sam Leff and Alden McWilliams.

John Celardo would ink this one story, pencil three others and then again disappear from DC. He returned to free-lancing and did such titles as Believe It or Not for Western. In 1973 he became comics editor at King Features and stopped drawing altogether. In 1977 he would return to DC and ink over 50 stories during a seven-year span. He returned to penciling in the 1980s taking over the Buz Sawyer newspaper strip

His inking on this Hawk and Dove story was very nice and silky smooth, an interesting contrast to Gil Kane's angular faces. I would have liked to see more of this combination.

Edited by Dick Giordano.