HEART THROBS (DC Comics Pub; 1949-1972)
#89 (5/1964; FIRST PRINTING;
My Love Lingers On, CLASSIC iconic CRYING BLONDE GIRL GGA Good Girl Art cover by Tony Abruzzo;
Many Collectors Consider this to be the BEST Romance Cover of the 1960’s!
** ( A ) My Love Lingers On
8 pages story with by Art by Bernard Sachs with Tony Abruzzo;
Cover art also used for splash page of the story inside;
** ( B ) All of Your Life
8 pages story with GENE COLAN art;
** ( C ) He Changed Everything!
7 pages story with Art by Art Peddy;
** ( D ) A Happy Ending!
7 pages story with Art by John Rosenberger;
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** Abruzzo and Lichtenstein; (Note from Wikipedia);
Roy Lichtenstein made a splash in the 1960s with his pop art "appropriations" based on the work of Abruzzo and other comic book artists, who rarely received any credit. One of Lichtenstein's most well-known works, Drowning Girl (1963), was adapted from the splash page of "Run for Love!", illustrated by Abruzzo and lettered by Ira Schnapp, in Secret Hearts #83 (DC Comics, November 1962). Critics have noted that the waves in Lichtenstein's image are intended to "recall Hokusai as well as the biomorphic forms of Arp and Miró; just as Abruzzo's art may have intended to.
** Lichtenstein has claimed a strong relation between Abruzzo's original panel and Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa, making this work a bridge between the two. Notable other examples of Lichtenstein works based on Abruzzo's art include: Crying Girl (1963) — adapted from "Escape from Loneliness," penciled by Abruzzo and inked by Bernard Sachs, in Secret Hearts #88 (DC Comics, June 1963) / Hopeless (1963) — adapted from a panel from the same story, "Run for Love!", artwork by Abruzzo and lettered by Schnapp, in Secret Hearts #83 (November 1962) / In the Car (sometimes called Driving) (1963) — adapted from an Abruzzo[21] panel in Girls' Romances #78 (DC, September 1961) / Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But... (1964)/ Ohhh...Alright... (1964) — also derived from Secret Hearts #88 (June 1963)/ Sleeping Girl (1964) — based on an Abruzzo panel from Girls' Romances #105 (October 1964)
** Jack Cowart, executive director of the Lichtenstein Foundation, contests the notion that Lichtenstein was a copyist, saying: "Roy's work was a wonderment of the graphic formulae and the codification of sentiment that had been worked out by others. The panels were changed in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications. There is no exact copy.
** Comics industry figures don't have such a sanguine attitude about Lichtenstein's swipes; In 2013, Abruzzo's artwork was exhibited as part of the show "Image Duplicator", curated by Rian Hughes and Jason Atomic, at Orbital Comics in London. The exhibition involved cartoonists "re-appropriating the works of Roy Lichtenstein, tracking them back to their original source material and then creating a new comic book image that credits the original artist." Abruzzo was one of the artists featured, alongside the likes of Dave Gibbons, Rian Hughes, Salgood Sam, Steven Cook, and Howard Chaykin.
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** [GPA Shows a CGC 8.0 sold for $845 in 3/2025]
** CGC: VERY FINE, 8.0, with Off-White to WHITE Pages = $795.00
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