Good Girls LOVE Bad Boys REALISTIC ROMANCES "The Shame is Mine"

Why is it good girls love "bad  boys"?

I guess when the endorphins are flowing, "better judgement" goes out the window, even for the most innocent of us.

This story from Avon's Realistic Romances #16 (1954) was part of a growing sub-genre known as "crime romances".

Though not as popular another concepts that mixed genres (Western or military romances), it generated enough interest that one book, Fawcett's Love Mystery, was devoted only to tales that combined romance and criminal activities (usually committed by the guy in the relationship)!

Trivia:

This story was from the second run of Realistic Romances which ran #15-#17.

The first series ran from #1-#8.

A third series from another publisher ran #1, then #8-#9!

So if you're looking to collect this title, there's no #10-#14, but there are two #1s and #8s!

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Halloween HeartBreak /Tales Thrice Told WITCHES' TALES "Until Death Do Us Part" / WEIRD MYSTERIES "Robot Woman" / SHAM COMICS "Girl of My Screams!"

We Usually Present the Earlier  Version of a Story First...

...but in this case, we decided to run the later, re-illustrated (but not rewritten) tale first!

Illustrated by Osacar Fraga, this new rendition in Eerie Publications' Witches' Tales V1N9 (1969) of an older story from Stanley Morse's Weird Mysteries #2 (1952) is decent, but not too over-the-top or grotesque, as most of these reworkings tended to be!

OTOH, the original version illustrated (and likely written) by Basil Wolverton, is...well...read it for yourself!

All we can say is...WOW!
For the finale, here's another redone version with a difference!
The art is the same as the original, but the script is totally-rewritten!

Tim Fuller rewrote the story for Source Point Press' Sham Comics #3 (2019).
Happy Halloween!

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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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Volume 1: Super Crush
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