Amorous Education FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED "I Joined a Teen-Age Sex Club!"

As Students Prepare to Return to Class

...we thought we'd provide some reference about campus life that couldn't be reprinted until more than a half-century after its' appearance in Harvey's First Love Illustrated #13 (1951)!

Though Harvey had heavily-modified other romance comics stories when they were reprinted after the Comics Code Authority began regulating content in 1954 (as we showed HERE and HERE), this one was apparently so controversial, that no amount of changes could make it acceptible to the Code administrators, so it remained hidden from the reading public until 2016, when, with the repressive Code finally defunct, it could be reprinted!
BTW, if it looks familiar to long-time readers, that's because we ran the b/w original art for the complete story a couple of years ago HERE!

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Amorous Education FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED "I Joined a Teen-Age Sex Club!"

If that  title doesn't get your attention, nothing will...

...and it wasn't even the cover-featured story in that issue of Harvey's First Love Illustrated!

Surprisingly,  this story from First Love Illustrated #13 (1951) wasn't one of the tales mentioned in Fredric Wertham's anti-comics screed Seduction of the Innocent (1954)!

Tales of scandalous "sex clubs" pop up every so often during periods of sexual repression such as the 1950s usually in local media looking for a sensationalistic story.

You'll note the tale is presented from scans of the original artwork, not the printed comic.

Unfortunately, every copy of the comic we could find is "slabbed" (encased in plastic) to increase it's resale value to the owner.

The fact it renders the comic unreadable is, sadly, secondary to most people.

(The concept of "slabbing" was developed for trading cards which don't have interiors.

The "collector mentality" of dealers adapted the idea to comics and magazines which do have readable interiors that, after being encased in plastic, are no longer accessible!

And removing the comic from the casing lowers the resale value!)

Illustrated by noted good-girl artist Bob Powell (who also did a number of heroine strips including Cave Girl), the writer of this torrid tale is unknown.

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