Amorous Education/Wedding Bliss OUR LOVE STORY "A Boy to Marry!"

Our final Amorous Education entry until September...

...involves graduation and the choices made after it, as this cover by John Buscema and inker John Verpoorten shows!

Written by Stan Lee, penciled by Gene Colan and inked by Dick Ayers, this tale from Marvel's Our Love Story #8 (1970) shows not going to college has its' benefits...perhaps not the message Stan meant to send...

It's also a perfect segue into our theme for June...Wedding Bliss, all about the actual ceremony when two souls are bonded into one..but in romance comics it doesn't always go smoothly, as you'll see starting next week!

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We Don't Yet Know What We'll Present!

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You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!

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Agonizing Love
The Golden Age of Romance Comics
(BTW, note she's wearing a wedding dress!)

Love in the Time of Covid-19 TALES TO ASTONISH "Scheme!"

Most romance comics tales about disease involve nobility and sacrifice...

...but not this one (which, technically, isn't a romance comic tale)!

BTW, since numerous others (including her servants) were in close physical contact with Anne and didn't catch the disease, the only way it could be transmitted was via (ahem) "marital relations"!

(Fine, no more euphemisms...sexual intercourse!)

Pretty kinky for a Silver Age Comics Code-approved tale, eh?

Plotter Stan Lee, writer Larry Lieber, penciler Gene Colan, and inker Dick Ayers all had experience in romance genre comics, but this particular story appeared in Atlas' Tales to Astonish #28 (1962)...a sci-fi anthology...just as Atlas was transitioning into Marvel Comics!

(Trivia: the previous issue of Astonish featured the first appearance of Hank (Ant-Man) Pym!)

I can't help but wonder what the target audience of 8-to-15 year old boys thought of this particular tale...

Next Week...

Another Tale of Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s...including "My Heart Broke in Hollywood,"

Collects Love Romance #89 and #101-104; My Love #2, #14, #16 and #18-20; Teen-Age Romance #77 and #84, Our Love Story #5; and Patsy Walker #119.

OUR LOVE STORY "He's Hers, But--I Want Him!"

A story so moving...so true to life...that the same book ran it twice within three years!

Here it is, from Marvel's Our Love Story #6 (1970) and Our Love Story #21 (1973)

Apparently fashions and hairstyles didn't change enough to warrant modifying the art by Gene Colan and Dick Ayers as is usually done with reprints!

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We're Not Sure Yet Exactly What We'll Present!
But...

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s!

"It Happened at Woodstock," "My Heart Broke in Hollywood," "Love on the Rebound!"

Collects Love Romance #89 and #101-104; My Love #2, #14, #16 and #18-20; Teen-Age Romance #77 and #84, Our Love Story #5; and Patsy Walker #119.

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "Beware! He Isn't Human!"

Is this unseen-for-fifty-years tale a love story or a lust story?

Actually, it's both...as you shall see!

Reads like an episode of The Twilight Zone, doesn't it?

Plotted by Stan Lee, scripted by Larry Lieber, penciled by Jack Kirby, and inked by Dick Ayers, this story of hearts (both human and mechanical) first appeared in Atlas' Journey into Mystery #77 (1962), then once more in Marvel's Fantasy Masterpieces #10 (1967)!

We unearthed it from it's half-century-old tomb, dusted it off, and re-presented it for your entertainment!

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Weird Love

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