Amorous Education MEET MISS PEPPER "My Dearest..."

Not every  romance comic story set in school involved student/student or even student/teacher "interaction"...

...in a couple of series, it was teacher/teacher "relationships"!

Written and illustrated by Joe Kubert and Bob Bean (nobody's certain as to who did what on which page or even panel), this never-reprinted story from St john's Meet Miss Pepper (1954) was ripped-off...I mean derived...from the then-popular CBS radio and TV series Our Miss Brooks!

Note: In the 1950s, it wasn't unusual for a series to begin as a radio show, then carry over to the then-new medium of television, sometimes running in both formats simultaneously as this series did!
It was popular enough to warrant a b-movie with the tv show cast (done as the series ended it's run) which tied up the show's plotlines ending with Miss Brooks and Mr Boynton engaged!

There was a one-shot Our Miss Brooks comic from Dell (the biggest producer of radio/movie/tv tie-in comics), but, for whatever reason, it didn't lead to an ongoing series!

As you can see from this intro page to the Our Miss Brooks comic, Miss Pepper followed the format and characters of Miss Brooks almost to a "T", with one major exception...Miss Brooks chased after hunky teacher Mr Boynton, while Miss Pepper was chased by hunky teacher Mr Phizz!
The comic played the romance humorously, much like other teen humor books.

Meet Miss Pepper lasted only two, never-reprinted, issues, then Miss Pepper disappeared (except for occasional excerpts in history/reference books) forever from print.

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Amorous Education MY DATE COMICS "Unusual Dates as told to Jean Anne Marten: Story of Fran Pickett"

Though It Was, Technically, a Teen Humor Comic...

...Hillman's My Date was sort of a lead-in to the first serious romance comics Young Romance and Young Love!

Conceived and produced as a competitor to the escapades of Archie and the hormonally-driven Riverdale crowd, My Date featured a lot of work by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, though they were still assembling their Simon & Kirby Studio at that point.
Unlike Young Romance and Young Love, which the S&K Studio "packaged" (editing/scripting/art/pre-press production) for Prize Comics, and began a couple of months after My Date hit the stands, their work on My Date was edited by one of Hillman Comics' in-house staff, Ed Cronin.
But, it's believed that they felt comics were ready for a more serious book about romance, similar to the numerous pulp and slick-stock prose magazines of the era popular with teen-age and young adult women, resulting in Young Romance, which was also young adult-oriented!
This particular story, part of the anthology feature My Date, supposedly-about readers' letters adapted into graphic form, which ran through all four issues of the series, was illustrated by Dan Barry, a journeyman who later freelanced for a lot of different publishers before moving over to steady work on syndicated newspaper strips.
The writer is, sadly, unknown.

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Amorous Education CO-ED ROMANCES "Education for Love"

Cupid returns to the classroom...

...as we spend the rest of September with hormonally-driven college and high school students!

Art by Al Camy.
The writer is unknown.
PL's Co-Ed Romances (and its' "sister book" Love Life) only had a single issue each in 1951.

PL Publishing is noted as the only comics company with more than a single title to last only 6 months before going belly-up!
They published eight books, ranging from romance to sci-fi to Western to crime to jungle heroine to horror!
None ran more than three issues.

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It's the Season for Lovin' ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "September Squall"

Now that it's September...

...let's tell a seasonally-appropriate, never-reprinted, cover-featured story that really fits the concept of a "beach read'!

The painted cover art (by the story's artist, Warren King) was based on the final panel.
While other comics publishers used painted covers on their romance comics, most of those were re-used pulp or paperback paintings which were unrelated to the interior stories!
You've likely noted a couple of two-page spreads at the beginning of the story and at the conclusion.
St John's Adventures in Romance #1 (1949), experimented with doing double-page spreads in each story to establish a distinctive "look".
Sadly, the series only lasted two issues.  ;-(
Artist Warren King spent several years in comic books doing everything from superheroes to horror to romance, before moving into newspaper cartooning, becoming the in-house editorial cartoonist at the NY Daily News and winning the National Cartoonists Society Best Editorial Cartoonist Award in 1968.
He passed away in 1978.

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Tales Twice Told GIRLS' LOVE STORIES "This is Our Moment"

Yesterday, We Presented a Story from the '60s...

...that featured modified clothing and hairstyles as usual when it was reprinted a half-decade later!

But, it also had a radical modification not present in most of those reprints...

Pages 3 thru 6 of the original story are dropped, and we now continue with what was originally page 7...

Why did Editor Dorothy Woolfolk drop four pages from this story when it was "updated" for DC's Girls' Love Stories #162 (1971)

It wasn't for space reasons, as there were lots of other reprintable stories that would've fitted into the allocated pages without extensive re-editing!
We'll never know the answer...

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