Thursday, June 4, 2009

Tips to Allure - Footnotes to Beauty

Trying to get your feet in shape for those fashionable summer sandals? Need some tips? Look no further than Falling in Love #122 (April 1971) for advice!


DC romance comics often resembled teen magazines in that they featured sections with beauty and diet suggestions. The commentary was usually pretty standard common-knowledge type stuff accentuated by “hip” language and minimal illustrations.

Besides creating a multi-layered experience for readers, these sections most likely were used to fulfill postal regulations that required one to two text pages in order to constitute a periodical.

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