Friday, September 29, 2023

Love is a Prison YOUNG LOVE "Love Behind Bars! II" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Innocent Protagonist...

...actually, this scene is about to happen...sort of!
Stephanie freaks out as she's about to meet her incarcerated boyfriend Vic as he is released from prison!
Returning home, she hastily packs, leaves a note for her parents, and boards a bus for New York City!
En route, she chats with her seatmate, a friendly old man who warns her of the perils of the Big City.
When Steph arrives at Manhattan's Port Authority bus terminal, she's shocked to discover the geezer had pickpocketed her, leaving her without money, credit cards, or ID!
When a pimp, seeing the distraught young woman, attempts to pick her up, he driven away by an elderly couple who claim they're from the "Travelers' Protection Agency" who bring her to their building, a hotel/halfway house for wayward girls...
Boy, when the Comics Code Authority loosened up the guidelines in 1971...they really loosened them!
A pimp, a cathouse/bordello with its' mistress (with her aide), and a hot-to-trot "john"!
Not exactly a typical day in a DC comic, eh?
So, in a somewhat-truncated ending, Vic's totally-innocent (and his conviction expunged), and Steph's released without even being booked (thus no arrest record)?
Don't ya just love a happy ending?

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

Love is a Prison YOUNG LOVE "Love Behind Bars! II" Part 1

We Have Already Seen...

Watch now, as previous creatives writer Robert Kanigher and inker Vince Colletta, along with new penciler Ric Estrada continue the story a year later in DC's Young Love #124 (1977)...
Does this adorable elderly couple truly know "what's best" for her?
So how does she end up here?
Find Out Tomorrow!
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Love is a Prison YOUNG LOVE "Love Behind Bars!"

It starts off the way the previous "Love is a Prison" stories did...
...but you'll never see the ending that's coming!

It took a full year after this cover-featured tale by writer Robert Kanigher, penciler Art Saff, and inker Vince Colletta appeared in DC's Young Love #119 (1975-76), but there was a resolution to the story, as shown in this ad from Young Love #123 (1977)... 

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Love is a Prison A MOON, A GIRL...ROMANCE "Prison Widow"

Now witness a tale where things, hopefully, might end differently!
Written and illustrated by Al Feldstein, this rarely-reprinted story from EC's A Moon, a Girl...Romance #12 (1950) ends with potential happiness for Florence....but was the original version meant to show her losing both men?
BTW, even though it was the cover-featured story for this issue, the cover was just so dull and boring...
...not to mention inaccurate (since Flo didn't know her incarcerated hubby was heading home after being paroled), that we went with the far more exciting splash page!

Next Week...
Another Story About How
Love is a Prison...with Two Twists!
One of Them is That Both of the Lovers are Incarcerated!
(And We Aren't Telling You What the Other One Is!)
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Love is a Prison ALL TRUE ROMANCE "Love Blind"

There's a cliche about how "girls love bad boys"...
...and Sally Jones is about to discover how "bad" a boy Ace Miller is...and how he'll prove Love is a Prison!
The scripter for this never-reprinted story from Comic Media's All True Romance #9 (1953) is unknown, and the art is by the staff of the Iger Studio, who provided editorial and art services to small publishers who didn't have their own creatives.
So, we don't know who to credit (or blame) for this particular tale.
Note: as of the next issue, the publisher began producing their own material using a mix of established and new/upcoming writers and artists who created a unique look and tone for their entire line (not just the romance books) until the company's demise two years later due to the industry-shaking "Seduction of the Innocent" mania of the mid-1950s.

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Love is a Prison!
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

FALLING IN LOVE "I Was a Prisoner of Love!"

It's a new month...and a new topic for the month!
Read the story and see if you can guess what type of tale we'll be presenting for the rest of the month!
(Hint: It ain't what you'll think!)
Did you guess the genre for the month from this never-reprinted, cover-featured story from DC's Falling in Love #71 (1964), illustrated by penciler Mike Sekowsky and inkers Joe Giella and Frank Giacoia?
It ain't show business romance!
(Although that's a whole category perfect for another month!)
It ain't men who use women and then dump them!
It ain't women who let themselves be treated like doormats!
Actually, the answer is purely in the (admittedly-metaphorical) title!
We're doing "Love is a Prison" in September...which will feature one (or both) of the protagonists incarcerated!
Yes, this story is a bit of a cheat, but the tale is so delightfully-overwrought and the cover was sooo kool, that we wanted to find some reason to post it!
And you did enjoy it, didn't you?
Forgive us?
Next Week...
One (or Both) of Our Lovers is Imprisoned!
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