Good Girls LOVE Bad Boys REALISTIC ROMANCES "The Shame is Mine"

Why is it good girls love "bad  boys"?

I guess when the endorphins are flowing, "better judgement" goes out the window, even for the most innocent of us.

This story from Avon's Realistic Romances #16 (1954) was part of a growing sub-genre known as "crime romances".

Though not as popular another concepts that mixed genres (Western or military romances), it generated enough interest that one book, Fawcett's Love Mystery, was devoted only to tales that combined romance and criminal activities (usually committed by the guy in the relationship)!

Trivia:

This story was from the second run of Realistic Romances which ran #15-#17.

The first series ran from #1-#8.

A third series from another publisher ran #1, then #8-#9!

So if you're looking to collect this title, there's no #10-#14, but there are two #1s and #8s!

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Halloween HeartBreak /Tales Thrice Told WITCHES' TALES "Until Death Do Us Part" / WEIRD MYSTERIES "Robot Woman" / SHAM COMICS "Girl of My Screams!"

We Usually Present the Earlier  Version of a Story First...

...but in this case, we decided to run the later, re-illustrated (but not rewritten) tale first!

Illustrated by Osacar Fraga, this new rendition in Eerie Publications' Witches' Tales V1N9 (1969) of an older story from Stanley Morse's Weird Mysteries #2 (1952) is decent, but not too over-the-top or grotesque, as most of these reworkings tended to be!

OTOH, the original version illustrated (and likely written) by Basil Wolverton, is...well...read it for yourself!

All we can say is...WOW!
For the finale, here's another redone version with a difference!
The art is the same as the original, but the script is totally-rewritten!

Tim Fuller rewrote the story for Source Point Press' Sham Comics #3 (2019).
Happy Halloween!

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Haunted HeartBreak HAUNTED LOVE "Reunion" Conclusion

We have already seen...

Daniel and Cleo were the perfect couple, but shortly before their wedding, tragedy befell as Cleo drowned during a sudden storm.
For months, Daniel obsessed over his lost love.
Anton and Nadia, a pair of con-artists pretending to be psychics, offered Daniel the chance to speak to Cleo's restless spirit...

Written by Joe Gill, a longtime comics writer who penned tales in every genre from romance to sci-fi.
Illustrated by Joe Staton, who recently helped revive the Dick Tracy newspaper comic strip!

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Halloween HeartBreak HAUNTED LOVE "Reunion" Part 1

"Gothic romances" were one of the last  genres to make it to comic books...

and once they arrived, didn't last very long.

This story is from the longest-lasting title, Charlton's Haunted Love.

Will Anton and Nadia "put one over" on Daniel, or is Nadia actually psychic?

Will Daniel and Cleo be reunited?

And if so, how?

Will True Love prevail?

Fear Not! 

You don't  have to wait until next week!

The heart-tugging conclusion will be posted...

Tomorrow!

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Halloween HeartBreak WEIRD THRILLERS "SandFlower of Venus"

Alien Worlds May  Have Potentially-Lethal Flora and Fauna...

...but every spacer knows the most dangerous creature in the Universe is...Man!

Or is it?

I take it back.

The most dangerous creature in the Universe is Woman!

This never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Weird Thrillers #1 (1951) was probably illustrated by a round-robin of Dan & Sy Barry, Murphy Anderson, and Frank Giacoia.

The writer is unknown, but may well be the editor, Jerry Siegel, who forever affected how pre-pubescent males thought of women with his creation of  Lois Lane, the nosy reporter who was always trying to either expose Superman's secret identity or trick the Man of Steel into marrying her!

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