HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "Baby-Sitter's Blues"

From the title, you wouldn't think this was a Yuletide story...

...but it most definitely is!

Does this story (by unknown writers, artists, or a writer-artist) from Harvey's Hi-School Romance #3 (1950) give you the "warm and fuzzy" feeling such holiday tales are supposed to provide?
Merry Christmas!!!

Amourous Education HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "A Kiss to Remember"

We Conclude Amourous Education for 2024 with...

...a tale which practically defines "wholesome"!
Not like that "Teen-Age Sex Club" tale we ran a couple of weeks ago!

With the names of both the writers and illustrators lost to the mists of time, this story from Harvey's Hi-School Romance #4 (1950) seems like a "new direction" during a period when romance comics were more oriented to older teens and even young women who followed romance magazines and radio soap operas!

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Amorous Education HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE: How "Shame" Became "Sham"

Here's a cover-featured tale from the 1950s about teen pregnancy...

...which reflects the current Repug-controlled Supreme Court's attitude towards the matter!

Illustrated by Bob Powell and scripted by an unknown writer, this tale from Harvey's Hi-School Romance #24 (1953) reflects the conservative/Repug mindset...unless Marge is their daughter, of course!
But, that's not the end of it!
Due to the Republican-created "Seduction of the Innocent" mania of the 1950s, the comic book industry created a self censorship-board, The Comics Code Authority, to avoid government censorship!
When this story was reprinted in Harvey's Hi-School Romance #52 (1956), it was extensively-modified in both story and art, beginning with the title, re-setting the venue from high school to college, and extending skirt lengths (which were scandalously-short in the original)...

...and making Alan far less of a sleazy wimp than he was in the original story!

Here's where the changes become really interesting...a certain inconvenient matter has suddenly disappeared!

And a spanking-new happy ending!

It's the Republican vision of America in 1956...I mean 2022!

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Amorous Education HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "He Melted My Heart"

With all the talk about transsexuals participating and dominating in womens' sports...

...what about women who could kick mens' asses in sport?

She obviously let him win in this never-reprinted tale illustrated by Bob Powell from Harvey's Hi-School Romance #1 (1949)!

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Amorous Education HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "Three's a Crowd in Love"

Oddly, though this story is subtitled "A True Hi-School Romance"...

...it concerns college students who are friends and/or lovers!

Though the writer and artist(s) are unknown, this story from Harvey's Hi-School Romance #3 (1950) is one of their most popular tales ever!

It was reprinted three times in various romance titles from 1955 to 1958, but hasn't been seen since...until now!

Note that, because Valentine's Day is Monday, we'll be posting then instead of next Wednesday!

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HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "Too Young" 2.0

Yesterday, we presented the first version of this tale with a Christmas Eve ending...

...but when it was reprinted several years later, it was spotlighted not only with a cover by Al Avison...

...but a new contents page illustration by Doug (Jonny Quest) Wildey!

Now, note the alterations to both story and art...courtesy of the newly-formed Comics Code Authority! (You did note their stamp on the cover?)

Start with covering Wendy's cleavage...

More cleavage-covering and a rewrite of "suggestive" word balloons in panels 5 and 7.

Caption rewrite in panel 1.

"Suggestive" word balloon in panel 4 rewritten.

No changes on this page!

Guess the censor took a cigarette/coffee break!

It's fascinating to see what the Code considered licentious back when this story was reprinted in Harvey's Hi-School Romance #61 (1957)

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HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "Too Young"

We know, this doesn't look like a Christmas story...

...but we assure you, it does end up as one!

Underage girl weds older guy.
She has angst about not being able to do the stuff teen-agers do any more!

They break up!

Then she learns she's pregnant!

And they reunite on Christmas Eve!

It's a poignant tale with a happy ending that could occur!

So why, when this story from Harvey's Hi-School Romances #29 (1954) was reprinted a couple of years later, did they alter it?

Find out...

TOMORROW!