Romeo #72
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Clunie Todd" in Romeo #72 (1959, D.C. Thomson) finds Clunie navigating unexpected turns after a mistaken slap at the orphanage, where she works. The new doctor, who happens to be the man she struck, offers her an unusual prescription—dating him—while her voice draws the attention of a passing songwriter and agent during a stormy picnic sing-along in a barn. Art by Maria Pascual, with inks by the same, brings this quiet moment of possibility to life.
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Clunie has slapped the wrong man for almost hitting a crippled girl the day before. In fact, the man she slapped is the new doctor at the sick ward of the orphanage where she works. But his prescription for her is to date him. That afternoon, she takes the children on a picnic. She arranges a sing-song in a barn to calm the children during a storm. But when the rain stops, a pop song composer and theatrical agent hear her singing as they stop their car. They think she has what it takes to take up singing professionally.
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