Girls' Love #140 - Leonard Starr and Joe Rubinstein - One Minute Later

I am thrilled to present a new ONE MINUTE LATER by the great Leonard Starr -- who better to do a romance cover for Valentine's Day than Leonard. And great inks by Joe Rubinstein over blue-line of Leonard's pencils.

In case anyone doesn't know Mr. Starr, he was born in 1925 ad began working in comics at 17 in 1942-43 for the Harry "A" Chesler and the Funnies, Inc. studios, eventually inking Bob Oksner's pencils. He graduated to drawing for early Timely/Marvel Comics titles, including the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner. Throughout the 1940s, Mr. Starr worked for numerous publishers of comic books and pulps and with Joe Simon and Jack Kirby on their earlier romance comics titles, in particular the Crestwood/Prize title Young Romance. In the late 1940s, he drew for EC Comics, including War Against Crime, before working both as an advertising artist and producing a large amount of work for both the American Comics Group and DC Comics titles during the early to mid-1950s.

For DC, he did covers and worked on titles including Doctor 13, House of Mystery, Gang Busters, Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman and Star-Spangled War Stories, mainly prior to 1957.

In 1957, Starr created the comic strip On Stage, later titled Mary Perkins, On Stage for the Chicago-Tribune-New York News Syndicate which was a mixture of soap opera, adventure and humor. He worked on Mary Perkins until 1979 whereupon , he returned to comic books during the 1970s and 1980s, working on "Morbius, the Living Vampire" for Marvel in 1975 and providing art for DC's Who's Who in the DC Universe (1986) and for a Superman and Lois Lane story in Action Comics.[

In 1979 he revived the comic strip Little Orphan Annie which he continued successfully until his retirement in 2000.