Joe Kubert’s Hollywood Confessions

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Here’s an amazing golden-age comic story from 1949: “Love Came Second” by Joe Kubert. The full pages are posted down below, but before we get there, take a look at some of these terrific panels!
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Kubert was having a lot of fun with the page layouts here – delighting in page-high panels like those above, and full-width panels like the ones below…
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I love these expressionistic background montages!
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Pretty wild stuff! Here’s the whole story below.

Click on the pages for a HIGH-resolution scan.


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Scans courtesy of the Jim Vadeboncouer collection at http://comicbookplus.com/
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