True Love Comics Tales: Ideal Love and Romance

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

IDEAL LOVE AND ROMANCE "Forbidden Love"

Sometimes the opening caption says it all...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Ideal Love and Romances #5 (1949) demonstrates.

Both the writer and penciler are unknown, though the inker appears to be Christopher Rule.

BTW, though this issue was #5, it was actually the one and only issue of Timely's Ideal Love and Romance!

Before that, it was Ideal: a Classical Comic.

With #6 it became simply Love Romances, and survived for one hundred issues as Timely became Atlas, until #106 (1963) around the time Atlas became Marvel!

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

IDEAL LOVE AND ROMANCE "Unfaithful!"

Sometimes the opening caption says it all...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Ideal Love and Romances #5 (1949) demonstrates.

Artist Pete Tumlinson was extremely versatile,

Besides romance books, he did war, horror, crime, and Western stories with equal aploomb!

Rendering over 150 stories (and some covers) from 1948 to 1955, he moved into commercial art (mostly book illustration) after the big comic book implosion caused by the "Seduction of the Innocent" witchhunt put many writers and artists out of work.

The writer is unknown.

BTW, though this issue was #5, it was actually the one and only issue of Ideal Love and Romance!

Before that, it was Ideal: a Classical Comic,

With #6 it became simply Love Romances, and survived for one hundred issues until #106 (1963)!