James Kaminski covers Incredible Hulk 198

Original cover by Gil Kane and John Romita; Marvel 1976. James Kaminski's website is here.

Joe Jusko covers Amazing Spider-man 50

Original cover by John Romita and Mike Esposito; Marvel 1967. Joe Jusko's website is here.

Koren Shadmi covers Amazing Spider-man 62

Original cover by John Romita; Marvel 1968. Koren Shadmi's website is here.

Ryan Alexander-Tanner covers Amazing Spider-man 50

Original cover by John Romita and Mike Esposito; Marvel 1967. Ryan Alexander-Tanner's website is here.

Rob Murray covers Amazing Spider-man 121

Original cover by John Romita; Marvel 1973. Rob Murray's website is here.

Robt Seda-Schreiber covers Amazing Spider-man 122

Original cover by John Romita; Marvel 1973. Robt Seda-Schreiber's website is here.

Dan Bru covers Amazing Spider-man 101

Original cover by Gil Kane and John Romita; Marvel 1971. Dan Bru's website is here.

Dan Lehane covers Amazing Spider-Man 55

Original cover by John Romita and Mike Esposito; Marvel 1967. Dan Lehane's website is here.

Young Romance #164

Young Romance #164 (On Sale: December 9, 1969) has a cover inked by Vinny Colletta.

We begin with "The Searing Conclusion to Next Door to Love" drawn by Alex Toth and Ric Dano (Dick Giordano). Next is "Please... Don't Step on My Heart." 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 Ric Estrada. We end with "I Laughed at Love" inked by Vinny Colletta.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Mark Todd covers Amazing Spider-man 53

Original cover by John Romita and Mike Esposito; Marvel 1967. Mark Todd's website is here.

Marisolivier covers Incredible Hulk 181

Original cover by Herb Trimpe and John Romita; Marvel 1974. Marisolivier's website is here.

Xurxo G. Penalta covers Luke Cage, Hero for Hire 1

Original cover by John Romita; 1972 Marvel. Xurxo G. Penalta's website is here.

Girls' Love Stories #144

Girls' Love Stories #144 (On Sale: May 13, 1969) has a cover by supposedly George Tuska and Vinny Colletta. It looks nothing like Tuska and certainly nothing like the Tuska/Colletta art on Iron Man at Marvel. Oddly, this cover falls back on the old logo that was replaced two issues prior.

We begin with "Can Love Last Forever?" drawn by John Rosenberger. Next is "Too Late for Tears" a reprint from Secret Hearts #43 drawn by John Romita and Bernard Sachs. That is followed by "He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not" drawn by Jay Scott Pike. Lastly is our cover-story, "Memory of Margret" drawn by George Tuska and Vinny Colletta.

This is George Tuska's first work of DC in ten years (Tales of the Unexpected #34) and his first cover since Uncle Sam #3 in 1942.

George Tuska studied at the National Academy School of Art. In 1939, he became an assistant on the Scorchy Smith newspaper comic strip. As he explained in an interview in Alter Ego #3, he also worked for for the Eisner & Iger studio, "alongside Bob Powell, Lou Fine, and Mike Sekowsky" , adding that the studio later expanded "with Charles Sultan, John Celardo, Nick Cardy, and [writer] Toni Blum joining in. I worked on 'Shark Brodie' [for Fiction House], 'Spike Marlin' [in Harvey Comics' Speed Comics, as Carl Larson], and other strips" for comics including Fiction House's Jungle Comics and Wings Comics, and Fox Comics' Wonderworld Comics and Mystery Men Comics."

Tuska later left to work with packager Harry "A" Chesler's studio, helping to supply content for such Fawcett Comics publications as Captain Marvel Adventures, and for such characters as Golden Arrow, Uncle Sam and El Carim. Tuska also drew the debut of the Quality Comics feature Hercules — starring a superhuman circus strongman, not the mythological figure — in Hit Comics #1 (July 1940).

Following Tuska's military service in World War II, he worked on Lev Gleason Publications' comic-book series Crime Does Not Pay, and later became one of the last writer-artists of Scorchy Smith, which ran until 1961. Tuska also did the comic strip Buck Rogers from 1959-1967.

Tuska freelanced primarily for Marvel during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books and beyond, penciling and occasionally inking other artists on series including Ghost Rider, Luke Cage, Power Man, Black Goliath, Sub-Mariner, The X-Men and the movie tie-in series Planet of the Apes. His first Marvel story, a "Tales of the Watcher" feature in Tales of Suspense #58 (Nov. 1964), had a special introduction by editor Stan Lee hailing the return of the Golden Age great. He enjoyed a nearly ten-year, sometimes briefly interrupted, run on Iron Man from issue #5 (Sept. 1968) to #106 (Jan. 1978).

His work at DC would include numerous romance and horror/mystery stories, but he is best remembered at DC for his super-hero work, starting with Challengers of the Unknown #73 in 1970. Besides the Challs, Tuska would work on the Teen Titans, Superboy, Superman in Action Comics and Superman Family, Jimmy Olsen in Superman Family, Justice League of America, Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman/Batman and Black Lightning in World's Finest Comics, Masters of the Universe, Green Lantern, Infinity Inc., and Fury of Firestorm.

George Tuska also pulled a 15-year stint drawing The World's Greatest Superheroes Present Superman newspaper strip from 1978-1993. His last DC work was on a Wildcat story in Wildcats: Mosaic #1 in 2000. Tuska retired from active comics work as of the 2000s and lives in Manchester, New Jersey where he does commissioned art. He also makes the rounds of many of the comic conventions even though he is currently 93 years old.

Edited by Joe Orlando.

Fred Chao covers Untold Tales of Spider-man -1

Original cover by John Romita; Marvel 1997. Fred Chao's website is here.

Jeffrey Brown covers Incredible Hulk 181

Original cover by Herb Trimpe and John Romita; Marvel 1974. Jeffrey Brown's website is here.

Heart Throbs #118

Heart Throbs #118 (On Sale: December 24, 1968) has a cover by Jay Scott Pike and Dick Giordano.

We begin with "Stand-In for Love" penciled by Tony Abruzzo. Next is "Two Hearts Lost" a reprint from Falling In Love #31 penciled by John Romita. Lastly is this month's "3 Girls -- Their Lives...Their Loves Episode 17" penciled by Jay Scott Pike.

Edited by Jack Miller. This is Miller's last romance book for DC.

Girls' Love Stories #140

Girls' Love Stories #140 (On Sale: November 14, 1968) has a cover by Ric Estrada and Dick Giordano.

We begin with "New Face, New Love" penciled by John Rosenberger. That is followed by "Never Look at Love" drawn by John Romita and Bernard Sachs, which must be a reprint from somewhere. Next we have an untitled Cindy the Salesgirl story also penciled by John Rosenberger. The book ends with "My Computer Romance" penciled by Ric Estrada.

Edited by Jack Miller.

Girls' Romances #137

Girls' Romances #137 (On Sale: October 10, 1968) has a sort of throw-back cover by Jay Scott Pike.

We begin with "I Couldn't Trust Him" pencilled by Tony Abruzzo. That is followed by "Substitute for Love," a reprint from Falling In Love #53 pencilled by John Romita. We end with our cover story, "The Wrong Boy", pencilled by Tony Abruzzo and later reprinted in Young Romance #199.

Edited by Jack Miller.

Girls' Love Stories #139

Girls' Love Stories #139 (On Sale: September 24, 1968) has a cover that aptly demonstrates Nick Cardy's ability to create amazing, sexy woman of beauty and innocence.

We begin with "The Only Man for Me" drawn by Ric Estrada. That is followed by "How Could He Stop Loving Me?" drawn by Tony Abruzzo. Next is "Kiss Me -- If You Dare" a reprint from Secret Hearts #89 drawn by John Romita and Bernard Sachs. Lastly we have our cover story, "She's Young, Beautiful -- and Alone -- Why?" drawn by John Rosenberger.

Edited by Jack Miller.

Heart Throbs #116

Heart Throbs #116 (On Sale: August 27, 1968) has a cover by Jay Scott Pike. I'm not real crazy about this one.

We begin with "The Truth About a Lie" a reprint from Falling In Love #50 drawn by John Romita. This is followed by a Cindy the Salesgirl story drawn by Jay Scott Pike and "3 Girls--Their Lives...Their Loves, Episode 15" also drawn by Jay Scott Pike.

Edited by Jack Miller.