- Angel Love
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publisher=DC Comics
date=August 1986 - March 1987
issues=8 and 1 special
main_char_team=Angel Love
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creators=Barbara Slate
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sort=PAGENAME"Angel Love" was a
comic book series created by Barbara Slate, published byDC Comics in the 1980s, as well as the lead character of this series. The first issue was dated August 1986. Despite its cartoony style, and some superficial stylistic resemblance to "girl humor" comic books of an earlier era such as "Millie the Model ", "Patsy Walker ", and "Katy Keene ", it was not intended as a children's comic; it covered "adult" issues such as drug use, pregnancy, and sexual abuse, and did not bear theComics Code Authority seal. The 1987 "Angel Love Special" which wrapped up the series bore a "For Mature Readers" advisory on its cover. Nevertheless, its letter column sometimes featured letters from children.Angel Love is a young woman who has moved from her native
Scranton, Pennsylvania toNew York City in hopes of finding a career as an artist. So far, however, the only career she has found is as a roller-skating waitress at a restaurant. Her adventures are portrayed sometimes with realism, but sometimes with fantasy elements such as talking cockroaches and a "guardian angel" she has drawn which comes to life to attempt to grant her wishes.This comic book's unusual combination of style and subject matter made it difficult to market successfully, and it apparently failed to find sufficient audience to survive; it was cancelled after only eight issues (#8 was dated March 1987). The "special" issue published soon afterward wrapped up the storyline, featuring Angel's attempt to convince her long-lost sister (now running for
United States Congress and worrying about the political ramifications of revealing her long-suppressed family history) to supply her bone marrow to possibly save their mother from cancer.External links
* [http://barbaraslate.com/angel.htm Angel Love on Barbara Slate's site]
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