WARTIME ROMANCES "Lovelife of an Army Nurse"

It is said that "All is fair in love and war"...

...as this nurse learns the hard way in a story from St John's Wartime Romances #1 (1951)!

Penciled by legendary "good girl" artist Mat Baker and inked by Ray Osirin, this tale of combat and cattiness was typical of the more adult approach that St John's creatives took in their various romance titles.

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In Space No One Can Hear You Smooch AMAZING ADVENTURES "Asteroid Witch"

Comic book romance stories are geared towards 'tween/teen/young adult females...

Art by Clinton Spooner

...which make you wonder what the 'tween/teen/young adult male attitude on romance is.

This never-reprinted story from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #1 (1950) offers that viewpoint.

And what have we learned today?

Women, alien or not, are scheming little trollops, plotting to control helpless men, usually by tricking them into marriage.
No wonder there's so much misogyny in America...

While the writer for this story is unknown (but believed to be editor Jerry [Superman] Siegel), the art is by Murphy Anderson, who did a lot of work for Ziff-Davis Comics before moving on to illustrate the Buck Rogers newspaper strip!

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Newsroom Nookie DARING CONFESSIONS "Scandal Sheet"

 Imagine, a tabloid that purchases stories involving famous/important people...

...then keeps them from being published and embarrassing the famous/important people!

Such "catch and kill" schemes couldn't actually happen, right?

This never-reprinted story from Youthful's Daring Confessions #4 (1951) can't seem to decide what its' plotting priorities are!

Is it a love story...or a tale of hard-hitting journalists working together...or both?

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INTIMATE LOVE "I Hated Men"

Sometimes there are valid reasons for women to be cautious about men...

...but rarely are there situations that require not just distrust, but hatred of the other gender!

We don't know who scripted or illustrated this never-reprinted story from Standard's Intimate Love #13 (1951), but this tale is a classic example of unrealistic plotting and scripting, even by comic book standards!

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LOVE SECRETS "I Hated Men"

Could there possibly be an innocent explanation for this scene?

Cover art by Matt Baker

If so, what could it be?

Ah, the old "She's my sister!" trope!

The unknown scripter of this never-reprinted story from Quality's Love Secrets #40 (1954) overplays the plot device...which could've been resolved a couple of pages earlier if the idiot guy had simply opened his phone call with "She's my sister and she's getting married and I'm her fiance's best man!" instead of a long, drawn-out explanation!
Though not identified by the Grand Comics Database, the art appears to be by Reed Crandall.

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LOVE DIARY "I Hated Men"

For a romance comics blog, our I Hated Men month's posts were among our most popular!

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So...

This never-reprinted story from Orbit's Love Diary #4 (1950) was illustrated by Mort Lawrence, but the writer is, sadly, unknown!

Note: I found it amazing how many romance comic stories have "hate" or "hated" in the titles.

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