Number 1894: “The thrills didn’t come.”

Michael is guilty of looks-ism. He loves Faye only because she is beautiful. In almost every panel where Michael appears in “I Couldn’t Go Back to Him,” he comments on Faye’s beauty. Faye and Michael are so close to marriage that Michael has even bought them a house. But then something awful happens, an accident. It makes Faye doubt her beauty. And Michael’s love.

While reading this little essay on the shallowness of some men the phrase “trophy wife” came to mind, The artwork is by L.B. Cole, whose glossy style lends itself to pretty characters. Faye needs plastic surgery and complains that her face is completely different, but to me it looks exactly the same after surgery as before. It must’ve puzzled Cole when he read the script. Make her beautiful still, but different. Cole’s figures look like they are out of magazine ads. Michael and Bob (the doctor who performs the surgery, and falls for Faye) even look alike, down to the unfortunate use of the same colors for their suits. In that way it seems Michael’s prejudices have rubbed off on Faye.

From All Romances #1 (1949):

More L.B. Cole, this time with a Toni Gayle story. Just click on the thumbnail.

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