“The Savage In Me” (k011)

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“The Savage In Me” is a 14-page story by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, published in Prize’s YOUNG ROMANCE #22 [1950].  S&K of course pioneered the romance comics field starting in 1947, and Kirby did over 2000 pages of them in his career (as well as editing many more by other artists in the S&K days), unfortunately only a fraction of them have been reprinted.

This story features a young woman named Augusta Hatcher who works as a missionary with her father, teaching young kids in a small Chinese village. She finds her passions stirred by the arrival of an aggressive you man named Gary Donovan, who brings news of an oncoming threat that will force them to leave the village.

The S&K romance stories, especially the longer stories (they very rarely went above 14 pages), are always interesting, with a lot of varied settings and personalities and complicated plots that aren’t all about the romance elements.

https://www.comics.org/issue/8321/#77438
THE BEST OF SIMON AND KIRBY [2009]

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