Halloween HeartBreak FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Timeless Tribe!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Art by Kurt Shaffenberger

Rod Merritt travelled to South America to investigate claims of an ancient civilization of immortals!

He discovers people who can metamorph into various forms including statuary, but seem to have a particular talent for transforming into animals including lions, jaguars, and rhinos!
While the rest of the expedition is slaughtered, Rod is kept alive at the behest of Leona, one of the leaders of the hidden people, who is attracted to him...

So, what did you expect?
A happy ending?

Not what writer/editor Richard Hughes and artist Ken Landau had in mind for this story from ACG's Forbidden Worlds #145 (1967).
Note: Despite his being "repulsed" at seeing Leona's true form, Rod accepts death as long as it's at her side.
BTW, here's the original art for that page...

Was Leona originally-conceived as being even more alien-appearing?

Did the Comics Code Authority make them tone it down?

We'll never know...

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Halloween HeartBreak FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Timeless Tribe!" Part 1

The SubText of This Year's Halloween HeartBreak  has been "Not  What They Seem"!

And nowhere is that more accurate than in this two-part Halloween blogathon finale!

Impossible?

A human and were-cat in love is impossible?

Haven't we seen humans and vampires, humans and werewolves, humans and ghosts, even humans and ghouls/zombies all happily "getting busy"?
What could possibly prevent this kool coupling?

Or is there something else we haven't yet learned?

You'll know the startling truth only if you're here...tomorrow!

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Amorous Education SEARCH FOR LOVE "Atomic Amour!"

With all the current talk about Russkie deceit and deception...

...we forget they were masters of such things during the Cold War!

Since the story begins in high school, we thought we could list it under the subhead "Amorous Education".
As hard as it is to believe, this tale appeared in a romance comic, specifically, ACG's Search for Love #2 (1950).

Similar tales had appeared in crime/espionage titles, but their audience was radically-different from romance series' readers!

Regrettably, both the writer and illustrator(s) are unknown, so we can't blame anybody in particular for their stereotyped attitudes towards intelligent women.

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Weird Love

Vol 1

COOKIE "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early"

How do you make some extra cash for Christmas?

If you're a teenager named "Cookie", it's usually the hard way...

I've found almost NO Christmas-specific romance comic stories!
Heck, I had to go through a stack of British comics to find last-year's tale (click HERE)

So I went with this teen humor strip from Cookie #10 (1947), written and illustrated by Dan Gordon, who was a writer-animator-director for the Fleischer Studios (Superman, Popeye), then went into comics, finally returning to animation at Hanna-Barbera where he co-created (among others) The Flintstones!
Note: Archie Comics has a huge number of Christmas-themed stories featuring Archie and Betty & Veronica!
I'm looking to find a couple of the earliest ones that would still be Public Domain to use here!
Wish me luck!

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Love in the Time of Covid-19 LOVELORN "Helping Heart!"

Just when you thought they couldn't do anything else with a disease-themed romance tale...

...this never-reprinted story from ACG's LoveLorn #3 (1949-50) comes along with a tale jam-packed with unexpected soap opera-style plot-twists!

Wow!

I'm exhausted!

So, jaded, manipulative girl loses handsome doctor to woman whose inherent innocence and purity of heart (and extreme work ethic) lures the MD to her...and she didn't even intend to do so!

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Another Tale of Disease, Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics