Romance on the Range GOLDEN WEST LOVE "A Woman Scorned"

A Sub-Sub-Genre Within the Sub-Genre of Western Romances...

...was the "Contemporary Western Romance", which took place in the present day,

Like stories we presented HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE, this never-reprinted tale from Kirby Publishing's Golden West Love #2 (1949) took a character from a contemporary urban setting and placed him/her into a rural Western-style environment.
Illustrated by Bruno Premani, the writer is unknown.
Kirby Publishing (no relation to Joe Simon & Jack Kirby) is unique in that it only published six titles during it's two-year existence, half of which were romance books: Enchanting Love, Golden Love, and Golden West Love!

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Romance on the Range REAL WEST ROMANCES "To Fight for Her Man!"

In the Old West, Men Were Real Men, Women Were Real Women...

and everybody had real guns...and knew how to use them!

Edited by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (the team who invented the romance comics genre), Real West Romances was one of two cross-genre titles Prize Comics published between 1949-1950, with the other being Western Love, also edited by Simon & Kirby!
This particular never-reprinted tale from V1N2 (1949) was illustrated by Leonard Starr, and likely written by Simon and/or Kirby.
It's also probable Kirby did rough layouts for the story.

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Romance on the Range COWGIRL ROMANCES "Men Died for My Kisses!"

It's been a while since we've run a Western romance comic...

...so we looked for the most sensational story title we could find!

This 1950 one-shot from Atlas Comics is either #1 (if you go by the cover numbering) or #28 (if you go by the indicia on the inside cover).

The #28 indicates it's a continuation of Jeanie Comics, a teen humor title which ended two months earlier with #27.

As for why it's a one-shot, it seems rival Fiction House released their own Cowgirl Romances simultaneously...or just before...Atlas.\d

Fiction House's title continued for 11 more issues while Atlas' book disappeared after this one appearance.

Penciled by Pierce Rice and inked by Christopher Rule.
The scripter is unknown!

Fun fact: Atlas released six different Western romance titles in 1949-50, more than any other comics company...

Cowgirl Romances (1 issue)

Cowboy Romances (3 issues)

Love Trails (1 issue)

Rangeland Love (2 issues)

Romances of the West (3 issues)

Western Life Romances (3 issues)

You gotta give them credit.

When Atlas saw a hot trend, they jumped on it whole-heartedly!

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Swinging '70s Stories YOUNG ROMANCE "The Swinger in 'Rise, Love, Rise!"

Yesterday, We Met...

..an advocate of the "free love" movement, who an engaged woman thought was trying to steal her fiancee!

(She wasn't!)

At the end of that story, Lily was seen riding off in someone's car...

Sadly, there was no "next chapter"!

After this two-story premiere in DC's Young Romance #170 (1971), Lily Martin never graced the pages of another comic book...not even in reprint!

Since editor Dick Giordano left the book after this issue, replaced by Dorothy Woolfolk, I suspect she was responsible for not continuing a series that didn't fit her editorial vision.
Usually, DC's editors would find a way to reuse already-purchased material, but a cursory examination of Woolfolk's run doesn't show any stories that could've been reworked versions of already-written/illustrated tales!

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Swinging '70s Stories YOUNG ROMANCE "Michelle: Love is a Swinger!"

This Month's Final Example of 1970s Romance Comics...

...is actually both a finale to a multi-part series we ran last year and the premiere of a new series!

As you might have guessed, this never-reprinted story from DC's Young Romance #170 (1971) just introduced DC's new example of "free love", Lily Martin...

...whose first solo adventure followed (after a couple of reprinted stories) in this very same oversized (64-page) issue!

And, that (also never-reprinted) tale will follow...tomorrow!