Amourous Education SPARKLING LOVE "Written in the Stars"

Normally, Our Amourous Education Stories Involve Students or Teachers...

...but in this case, it's a school office worker who hangs with students in her spare time!

Illustrated by Sid Lazarus and scripted by an unknown writer, this story from Avon's Sparkling Love #1 (1950) appeared elsewhere that same month!

The contents for the entire comic were also bound in Avon's newest romance pulp magazine...

...Sparkling Love Stories as "32 pages of romance stories illustrated in full color" to go with the prose love tales with spot illustrations in black and white.

(Luckily for them, pulp magazines and comic books were the same size!)

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Amorous Education CAMPUS ROMANCES "What College Failed to Teach Me"

The Older Man/Younger Woman Trope Gets an Added Boost...

...with a never-reprinted story that involves (potentially) incest!

Can you tell this is a pre-Comics Code Authority story?

Illustrated by Ed Waldman and scripted by an unknown writer, this tale from Avon's Campus Romances #2 (1949) is meant for an older audience (late teen/early adult) audience than romance comics from the mid-1950s onward!

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Romance on the Range FRONTIER ROMANCE "Ropin' in a Wild Cowpoke"

A new reality series, Farmer Wants a Wife, is about four farm/ranch owners seeking a mate.

And, to tell the truth, they sound a helluva lot like this guy!

Illustrated by Ed Waldman, this tale from Avon's Frontier Romances #1 (1949) starts out transactional, but turns emotional by the end.
BTW, in regard to Fox's Farmer Wants a Wife reality series, the show plays up the "rancher/cowboy" aspects while playing down the "farmer" aspects of the lifestyle.

Wonder why?

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Amourous Education CAMPUS ROMANCES "Love was My College Major"

It's time for your lesson in love...

...from a writer who takes the "book" part of "comic book" to the extreme!

Considering letterers have always been among the poorest-paid of the various contributors to comics, I wouldn't be surprised if whoever did this job said "The hell with it! I'd rather dig ditches. It'll be easier!" after finishing the assignment.

The art for this tale from Avon's Campus Romances #2 (1949) by Manny Stallman and John Guinta tries to compete with the text, but some panels look like the illustration was just an afterthought.

The script, by an author whose name is lost in the mists of history, reads like a radio soap opera, with an incredible amount of "internal monologue" by Karen.

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 featuring the cover from the issue of Campus Romances this story is taken from!

Amorous Education CAMPUS ROMANCES "One Way Romance"

If you thought last week's story about a girl falling for a guy who looked like a younger version of her father was weird...

...wait until you see this little tale!

Yeah, waiting until she graduates to marry won't get any tongues wagging!

I can see the first faculty get-together after the wedding...

"Hi, Professor Banner!

Congratulations on your nuptials!

Odd, your lovely bride looks so...familiar?"

"Oh, she was in your European Classical Literature class last semester, Professor Warren!"
Illustrated by Jerry Grandenetti, and scripted by an unknown author, this never-reprinted story from Avon's Campus Romances #2 (1950) is an interesting insight as to what was "polticially-correct" back then!

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PHANTOM WITCH DOCTOR "Death Came Dancing"

As a Halloween treat (no trick), here's a tale about true love from beyond the grave...

...as presented in a classic 1950s horror comic!

This tale appeared in the 1952 one-shot comic anthology Phantom Witch Doctor by Avon Comics.

Both the writer and artist are unknown and the story has never been reprinted.

 Happy Halloween, everyone!

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