Romance on the Range ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "Stopgap: the Saga of Coby Nash"

Though not strictly a "Western romance" title......St John's anthology Adventures in Romance was an attempt to mix several genres with romance...including high adventure, swashbuckling pirates, and, as you'll see, Westerns...to attract both male and female readers!

Despite running romance strips in almost every genre (except horror and sci-fi), the book only lasted two issues.

Illustrator Leonard Starr spent a decade in comics before moving on to newspaper comic strips, first as an assistant on Flash Gordon, then as the creator/writer/artist of the long-running Mary Perkins: on Stage!
He's best known to contemporary audiences as the creator/writer/designer of the animated TV series ThunderCats!

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ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "September Squall"

Now that it's September...

...here's a tale for the final weekend of warm weather that really fits the concept of a "beach read'!

You'll note a couple of two-page spreads at the beginning of the story.
St John's Adventures in Romance #1 (1949), experimented with doing double-page spreads to establish a distinctive "look".
Sadly, it only lasted two issues.  ;-(

The painted cover art (by the story's artist, Warren King) was based on the final panel of the story.
While other comics publishers used painted covers on their romance comics, most of those were re-used pulp or paperback paintings which were unrelated to the interior stories!
Artist Warren King spent several years in comic books doing everything from superheroes to horror to romance, before moving into newspaper cartooning, becoming the in-house editorial cartoonist at the NY Daily News and winning the National Cartoonists Society Best Editorial Cartoonist Award in 1968.
He passed away in 1978.

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(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)

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ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "Heels Over Head In Love"

With Labor Day coming up, it's time to ease into Autumn...

...with a story from the short-lived (and never reprinted) St John's Adventures in Romance #1 (1949)!

Written by the prolific Dana Dutch, about whom very little is known, except his extensive list of  comic scripts.
Interestingly, out of 206 identified scripts, over 200 were romance stories, with a smattering of superhero and high adventure!

Illustrated by the versatile Frank Bolle, who's still active in the field today!

Here's his website!

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featuring comics stories written by Dana Dutch! 

ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "Black Lily"

Let's journey back to the 1700s, when men were dashing, women were demure...

...and court intrigue was commonplace!

This page was the inside back cover of the comic, so it's b/w rather than color.

This torrid tale from St John's Adventures in Romance #1 (1949) was illustrated by Leonard Starr, who did over 400 comic stories in the late 1940s-mid 1950s, went on to create the long-running (1957-79) newspaper soap-opera strip Mary Perkins on Stage and then took over the writing and illustrating chores on Annie (adapting his realistic style to match original artist Harold Gray's looser, "cartoonier" style) finally ending up as the primary designer and story editor on the original ThunderCats animated tv series!

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A History of American Romance Comics

ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "It's Co-old Outside"

With a winter storm sweeping through the country...

...it's time to go skiing in a bikini!

(Tess isn't cold!

She's wearing gloves and earmuffs!)

Of course, any artist will tell you that a blank canvas is almost always white/off-white, so he/she only needs white paint for touch-up or mixing with other colors to lighten them!
So, running out of white paint is the least-likely situation an artist would experience!

This otherwise entertaining little tale from St John's Adventures in Romance #2 (1950) was illustrated by the versatile Frank Bolle, who's still active in the field today!

The scripter is unknown.

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