ROMANTIC HEARTS "I hated MEN" (That's the way the title reads...)

Continuing January's theme "I Hated Men!"...

...here's another, quite different (and never-reprinted), story from Master Comics' Romantic Hearts V2N6 (1954) with the same title!

Penciled by Bill Savage, inks by Dick Beck and scripted by an unknown writer, this tale, unlike our previous one, features a woman deliberately her sexuality as a weapon against the gender she believes wronged her!
It's not the last time we'll see such a tale!

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Another, Radically-Different Story Entitled

"I Hated Men"!

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A History of American Romance Comics

Amourous Education CANDY "Try-Out for Love!"

Remember this story about students crushing on a faculty member?

It's actually a reworking of an earlier tale by the same writer!

Jack Mendelsohn, the scripter of this never-reprinted tale from Quality's Candy #37 (1953) reused almost all of the plot in Tower's Tippy Teen #2 (1966)!
(Even the one-shot gym teacher's name is the same in both stories!)

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Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie-Type Tale That'll Run through December...

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DEAR LONELY HEART "So This is Love!"

This is not the typical way a 1950s romance comic story begins...

...but this tale from Comic Media's Dear Lonely Heart #1 (1951) does have some predictable, even cliche, twists!

One date and he proposes?

And she accepts?

If she has a concussion, the writer doesn't mention it...

Speaking of which, we don't know the identities of either the writer or artist (except that they worked for the Iger Studio, which "packaged" stories and even ongoing strips for publishers), which may be just as well since I suspect some of our readers would probably want to do them serious harm for their backward (even for 1951) portrayal of male/female relationships!
BTW, this was from the first issue of Dear Lonely Heart.
It was canceled after eight issues, but the publisher must've liked the title, because it launched Dear Lonely Hearts (note the "s") less than a year later.
It also lasted only eight issues.

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

Amorous Education & Wedding Bliss CONFESSIONS ILLUSTRATED "High School Bride"

In a total contrast to last week's frivolous flight of fancy...

...here's a totally-serious tale...but with an upbeat ending!

I had said that the only genre the EC Comics crew couldn't handle well was romance.

OK, I was wrong.

This story, and the entire EC Comics Confessions Illustrated series, prove me incorrect.
In their final attempt, after Saddle Romances; A Moon, a Girl, Romance; and Modern Love, they finally got it right!

This particular tale, written by Daniel (Flowers for Algernon) Keyes and illustrated by Jack Kamen, was never published during the series' original run.
It was intended for #3...but the series ended with #2.
It was finally published in a now OOP boxed hardcover edition in 2006 presenting all the EC "Picto-Fiction" titles along with their previously-unpublished final issues!
But it was just reprinted last month as a standalone edition, as you see below.

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Amorous Education JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "What a Specimen"

To help ease your sad return to school before Labor Day (those of you with an extended school year)...

MORE fun with Dan DeCarlo's Jetta!
The 21st Century isn't what they thought it would be in 1953...

"Leaping Electrodes!"
"Now we're cookin' with uranium!"
"Go atomize yourself!"
"This is simply electronic!"
Why aren't we all talking like this?

This tale from Jetta #6 (which was actually the second issue) was written and penciled by Dan DeCarlo, but it may not have been inked by him.

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Super-Love "The Marriage of ?????? and BatWoman"

Bet when you saw that title, we were going to conclude our July Super-Love features with...

...but, it's not that BatWoman, (Kate Kane), we're going to look at, but the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths version, Kathy Kane...

...and for the record, Kate and GCPD Captain Maggie Sawyer didn't marry!

(Note: we do have a post about the current Batwoman in the works for the future!)

But let's get on with today's story from DC's Batman #122 (1959)...

Written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger, penciled by Sheldon Moldoff, and inked by Ray Burnley, this "it was all a dream" tale from DC's Batman #122 (1959) has been reprinted numerous times, and even adapted into an audio adventure...

Record Album Back Cover

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