Love IS a BattleField DARLING LOVE "I Want My Soldier Boy"

Today's story is About War...

...in several different ways!
Yet this ad, which utilized the tale's splash page, doesn't give away any of them!
Let's read on...

We've presented stories about Korean and German war brides who faced difficulties adjusting to their new lives in America after marrying servicemen, but never a case involving the husband's parents being prejudiced against the new wife!
It's not as if she's a "foreigner/alien" (non-English-speaking ethnic as many war brides were), but British, the nationality most white Americans at that point were descended from!
In fact WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) were the dominant ethnicity in business and politics from America's founding until the 1960s!

Notes:

Darling Love and it's sister, Darling Romance each ran a full-page ad promoting a story in the other's book!
AFAIK, publisher Darling Magazines was the only company to do this.
We took the ad from Darling Romance #5 (which used the tale's splash) and combined it with the rest of the story from Darling Love #5 (1950).
BTW, Darling Magazines was an imprint of MLJ Publishing, aka Archie Comics, which had been doing genre-specific imprints since the 1940s.
In the 1960s, they imitated Marvel with a Mighty Comics line featuring their various superhero character revivals, and in the 70s-80s, they had Red Circle, which published horror and super-hero material!

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Love and the Law POLICE TRAP "Masher!"

Riding the NYC subway can  be an adventure...

...like this atypical tale of lechery, love, and the law!

This tale of female empowerment from 1954 is from the first issue of Mainline's short-lived 1950s anthology Police Trap, illustrated (and probably written) by Bill Draut, who also did a lot of romance comics work in the 1950s-1970s, primarily for Harvey, Toby, and DC.
He continued producing material until the mid-1980s, ending up (like many other comic artists) working on animated tv series, where he was one of the primary designers for the original GI Joe cartoon.
And, please remember to be observant and careful when you ride public transportation!

Business Before Love? YOUNG MARRIAGE "Everything But Love"

It is Said "All's Fair in Love and War"!

It is also said "Business is War"!

So, a logical extrapolation of the two is "All is Fair in Business and Love"!

To answer the obvious question, there was never a sequel to this never-reprinted story of Cupid and cupidity from Fawcett's Young Marriage #1 (1950), created by artist Bob Powell and an unknown scripter...who could have been Powell himself or editor Roy Ald!

Pre-Comics Code tales tended to be more "adult" in their subject matter than the later books which had less-sophisticated stories!
And a surprising number have rather depressing endings...

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Love IS Lunacy A MOON, A GIRL...ROMANCE "I Was Jilted and Had No Desire to Live!"

Sometimes, you just want a three-hankie tear-jerker...

...to cleanse your soul...and here it is!

I know, I know.

This being EC Comics, you half-expected her to take the poison, become zombified, and eat Gregg when he came to the door.

And, the story from EC's A Moon, a Girl...Romance #9 (1949) is so cliched that it might have inspired writer/illustrator Al Feldstein to think about doing exactly that when, a year later, EC began doing its' now-classic horror comics titles!
BTW, if the book's title seems a little...weird, it's due to Post Office regulations!
Really!
Back in the days of getting subscription magazines by mail, a publisher had to purchase a separate license for each one to get the low "second class" magazine mailing rate!
But that license would apply only to one periodical at a time!
If you launched a differently-titled periodical, you had to buy a separate license for that book!
Comic publishers were notoriously-stingy, so if a book wasn't selling, they'd reformat it, but try to keep the title as similar as possible to avoid buying a new mailing license!
This series started out as Moon Girl and the Prince, about a super-heroine and her consort.
With #2, it became just Moon Girl, as the Prince was downplayed in the stories.
But when violent 'true crime' stories were introdued as of #7, the series was retitled Moon Girl Fights Crime.

When that didn't boost sales, Moon Girl was dropped entirely, and, in #9, the book became a romance comic called A Moon, A Girl...Romance!
But sales still didn't improve, so it was revamped as of #13 into s sci-fi/fantasy book called Weird Fantasy, atnad after four issues the PO said "ENOUGH!" and forced EC to finally pay for a new second class mailing license!

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Love in 3-D (sort of) LOVELORN "Come Back My Love!" in TrueVision!

You won't need red/blue 3-D glasses to read this  3-D comic story...

...behind this Ogden Whitney cover, because it's not red/blue 3-D, but an idea to simulate 3-D called...

While other companies were doing actual 3-D, ACG decided to save a few bucks and also tout the fact their "3-D" was still FULL color!
And now, on with the story...

It's a clever concept, but I can see how it would become irritating on an ongoing basis.

The big problem is that the cheap "newsprint" paper was never meant to have so much solid black ink on the pages, resulting in blotchy backgrounds!

Art on this never-reprinted story from ACG's Lovelorn #51 (1954) was by Edmond Good, who worked in various genres for DC, Fox, Nedor/Standard, Fawcett, and ACG, among others.

He left comics to become the Art Director for Tupperware from the mid-1950s until his retirement in the mid-1970s!

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