Laugh at Love TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE "What Are You Saying?!" & YOUNG ROMANCE "Heartbreak"

Yep, we're taking a humorous look at romance during the month of Valentine's Day!

And we're starting it off with another of Jeannie Martinet's rewrites of an otherwise never-reprinted DC Silver Age tale!

Now that you've seen how this story was reconceived for the cynical 2000s in Watson-Guptill's Truer Than True Romance (2001), let's see what the unknown original writer of this Jack Sparling-penciled and Vince Colletta-inked tale from DC's Young Romance #161 (1969) had in mind...

Is that adorable, or what???

Note: I really didn't believe there were any Vietnam War romance comic stories until I found this one!

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Valentine's Day!!!

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Laugh at Love! TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE "I Hate My Hair!" / FALLING IN LOVE "Stolen Dreams!"

Over the past two weeks, we presented stories created in the early 1970s...the end of romance comics!

For the remaining two entries, we're running stories created during the 1950s-60s, the Silver Age of Comics!

Ironically, writer Jeanne Martinet would be considered "politically-incorrect" today for her characterization of androgenous appearance and the resulting gender confusion!

Hardly the sort of thing penciler Tony Abruzzo, inker Bernard Sachs, and an unknown writer had in mind when they created the story for DC's Falling In Love #4 (1956).

Interestingly, when this story was reprinted over a decade later in DC's Falling in Love #99 (1968), only the women's hairstyles were "updated", with the protaganist's hair modified to the then-trendy "page boy" style!

Neither the mens' hair nor anybody's fashions were updated!

(They usually gave the men sideburns and/or longer hair to make them look "mod"!)

But they felt they had to change her hair!

Go figure...

Next Week:

The Final Serious Romance Story Rewritten for Laughs and We Guarantee That...

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Amorous Education LOVE ROMANCES "No Dates for the Dance!" / MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX "Callie Crandall: Co-Ed Campus Undercover Cuite"

College is stressful enough without this...

...which is enough to reduce even the smartest of students to a despairing sad sack!

You would think this tale about a girl falling for a guy who looks exactly like the younger version of her daddy by penciler Dick Giordano & inker Vince Colletta (along with an unknown writer)  from Atlas' Love Romances #89 (1960) was kinky enough, right?

But Marvel decided it needed the raunchiness kicked up to 11!

So writer Michael Lieb kept the art, but re-wrote the story for Marvel Romance Redux: Restraining Orders are for Other Girls (2006)...

Just when you thought romance comics couldn't get any weirder...

Next Week...

Another Tale of Amorous Education!

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(Yeah, we say that a lot...but it's true!)

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Which includes "No Dates for the Dance"
And / Or

Marvel Romance Redux
Which includes "Callie Crandall: Co-Ed College Cutie"

Marvel's Disappearing Black Woman!

Hey, Marvelites, remember Jill Jerold?

Before Ororo Munroe was Storm...

Before Misty Knight was a Daughter of the Dragon...

...Jill was Marvel's first ongoing Black female character...

...who was last seen in in 2009, either romantically-involved or just "friends with benefits", with Johnny Storm/the Human Torch!

After this brief appearance by Johnny in Marvel's Models, Inc #1 (2009), the relationship was never mentioned again, and Jill disappeared into limbo once more!

Pity...

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We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...

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