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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Halloween HeartBreak / Tales Twice Told WEIRD TERROR "Satan's Love Call" & TALES OF VOODOO "Devil Power"

There's True Love...

...and then there's True Lust, usually directed by the Prince of Tempters...Satan!

But flawed humans can screw up The Devil's best-laid perfidious plans!

Written by Ken Fitch and illustrated by Don Heck, this pitch-perfect story from Comic Media's Weird Terror #11 (1954) was re-created with new art (but almost exactly the same script) in Eerie Publications' Tales of Voodoo V5N3 (1972) by illustrator Oscar Fraga!

It loses some of the lyricism in the retelling.

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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 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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Amorous Education FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED "I Joined a Teen-Age Sex Club!"

As Students Prepare to Return to Class

...we thought we'd provide some reference about campus life that couldn't be reprinted until more than a half-century after its' appearance in Harvey's First Love Illustrated #13 (1951)!

Though Harvey had heavily-modified other romance comics stories when they were reprinted after the Comics Code Authority began regulating content in 1954 (as we showed HERE and HERE), this one was apparently so controversial, that no amount of changes could make it acceptible to the Code administrators, so it remained hidden from the reading public until 2016, when, with the repressive Code finally defunct, it could be reprinted!
BTW, if it looks familiar to long-time readers, that's because we ran the b/w original art for the complete story a couple of years ago HERE!

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Romance on the Range LOVE DIARY "Big City Girl"

It's Culture Shock ...and More...When a Woman Raised in the Frenetic Urban Jungle...

...gets literally thrown, against her will, into the pastoral countryside!

Written by Dorothy Woolfolk and illustratd by Mort Leav, this never-reprinted story from Orbit's Love Diary #12 (1951) presented the point of view that dwellers of the crowded canyons of concrete were somehow "less" than the "salt of the earth" types who lived out among farm animals and miles of vegetation!

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