Wednesday, June 07, 2023
Magazine Cover Comics: Hollywoodn't
As the King Features magazine covers more and more veered away from comics series, one of the last gasps was Hollywoodn't, with story by Jack Lait and art by Virginia Huget. Lait and Huget perform one of the best set-up acts you're going to see on the Hearst magazine covers, telling the story of a gorgeous farm gal, Glory, who is just too beautiful NOT to be in the movies. Despite her consistent refrain that she hates Hollywood, and that all she wants to do is marry a local boy and start making babies, her glamorous good looks seem to draw her as if magnetized to Tinseltown.
As the story progresses the world is at her feet, and yet still all Glory wants is to tend her flock of chickens and make some country bumpkin a good wife. Finally, in the middle of making a movie she is asked out by the handsome leading man, who is nothing short of a prize wolf. Not caring one way or the other, she invites him to visit her on the farm, where he sneers at everything from her flock of chickens to her kinfolks. And then, out of the blue, in the final panel he asks her to marry him and she accepts. The end!
This strange series ran in only four installments, and the final one is obviously ending the story long before intended. What happened? Durned if I know.All I do know is that one of the strongest stories of the magazine cover genre was short-circuited; what a shame.
Hollywoodn't ran from September 29 to October 20 1935.
Labels: Magazine Cover Comics
