Advice d'Amour DR ANTHONY KING: HOLLYWOOD LOVE DOCTOR "Dr. Anthony King, Hollywood Psychiatrist"

This Month, We Return to a Previous Topic...

...busybodies who, solicited (as in this case) or unsolicited, will offer their advice to set your off-the-rails love life back on-course!
(Is it just me or is that grin in the splash panel somewhat...disturbing?)

This premiere tale from the good doctor's first issue of Toby's Dr Anthony King: Hollywood Love Doctor (1951) can't make up it's mind if it's a detective tale or a romance story.

And while the first issue emphasized an entertainment industry connection, the second issue dropped "Hollywood" from the title and he started treating the miserable love lives of everyday people!
The artist is Myron Fass.
But, sadly, the writer is unknown.

Next Week:

Another Story Hosted by Someone Who Believes He/She is Qualified to Solve Other People's Problems!
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Divorce American Style GIRLS' LOVE STORIES "Child of Divorce"

We End the Month with a Case of a Product of a Broken Marriage... 

Cover art by Art Saaf & Vince Colletta
...and how it may affect the now-grown daughter's future!

Art for this never-reprinted story from DC's Girls' Love Stories #163 (1971) is by Tony DeZuniga.

The writer is unknown.

Next Week , We're Returning to a Previously-Done Theme with All-New Entries!

Which One?

You'll Have to Be Here To See!

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Heart Throbs
Best of DC Romance Comics

Divorce American Style SICK "Divorce, of Course!"

Ending a Marriage Can Be a Grim Experience!

...so let's lighten the mood with a bit of humor, specifically, parody!

Last year, we presented a month of comic stories about "Love Advisors" including real-life radio show host Mr Anthony...who actually had no qualifications whatsoever to counsel troubled lovers!

Well, he inspired imitators, some of whom made the transition from radio to TV!
This never-reprinted story, illustrated by the versatile Bob Powell, from Prize's MAD Magazine imitator Sick #3 (1960) is a parody of the entire counselor genre, not any particular inept advisor!

Next Week:

Our Final Diatribe (For Now) About Divorce!

And, as Always, We Guarantee That...

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Sincerest Form of Parody

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Divorce American-Style BEST LOVE "I Craved His Kisses!"

No, This Isn't a Romance on the Range Story...

...it's definitely Divorce American-Style, and just happens to start in the present-day West...specifically Las Vegas, home of "quckie divorces"!

Scripted by an unknown writer (but likely the book's editor, Stan Lee), penciled by Werner Roth & Bill Everett and inked by Everett, this story of divorcees, divorce lawyers, and...well...failed divorce (which means a rekindled, successful marriage) and another, likely, marriage...appeared in Timely's Best Love #36 (1950).

Next Week:

We Have No Idea Which Story of Divorce We're Going to Run...Yet!

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

(which reprints this story of almost-divorce and horny divorce lawyers)
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Divorce, American-Style BRIDES IN LOVE "Day of Divorce!"

June is the Month for Weddings, Right?

Art by Dick Giordano

Not here, it ain't!

According to myth, marrying between June 1st and June 20th would lead to everlasting love, since the Roman goddess Juno (Queen of the Gods) celebrated her festival during this time!
Normally, we'd do happy wedding tales in June.
But this year, we're feeling cranky and contrary!
So, let the never-reprinted recriminations begin...

Will other stories this month end as happily as this one by writer Joe Gill, penciler Joe Sinnott, and inker Vince Colletta from Charlton's Brides in Love #36 (1963)?

You really believe we're going to tell you?

Not with three more posts about divorce from the 40s to the 70s to go this month!

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Dingbat Love

(covering Jack Kirby's unique and unpublished projects, including True-Life Divorce and Soul Love!)

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Prom Night: Dream or Nightmare? YOUNG ROMANCE "Price i$ Right!"

We started the month with Young Romance in the Golden Age (1940s)...

...and we end with it in the Bronze Age (1970s)!

Written by Irene Vartanoff and illustrated by Jack Abel, this never-reprinted story from DC's Young Romance #182 (1972) is a morality tale more than a romance, but it's told sincerely and effectively.

Next Week:

Normally, We'd Do Wedding Stories in June...
But Not This Year!

It's Gonna be Different!

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...the Temporary SuperHeroine

Romance Trilogy

by Irene Vartanoff

Temporary SuperHeroine

Crisis at ComicCon

Hollywood SuperHeroine

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Prom Night: Dream or Nightmare? JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Jet Jaunt"

It's Prime Time for Prom time...Even If It's in the Future...as Seen from the 1950s!

(We didn't skip the 1950s, just moved it down the line)

But, in teen humor comic books (even set in the future), things never go smoothly!

 

OK, maybe it's just as well that we of the real 21st Century still don't have flying cars...

As you might have guessed, Archie artist Dan DeCarlo was the illustrator for this tale from Standard Comics' Jetta of the 21st Century #5 (1952), which was actually her first issue!

(Issues 1-4 were a romance comic called Today's Romance!)

Next week:

Our Final Prom Story, Set in the Swinging '70s! And we can guarantee that...

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Dan DeCarlo's Jetta