Laugh at Love TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE "What Are You Saying?!" & YOUNG ROMANCE "Heartbreak"

Yep, we're taking a humorous look at romance during the month of Valentine's Day!

And we're starting it off with another of Jeannie Martinet's rewrites of an otherwise never-reprinted DC Silver Age tale!

Now that you've seen how this story was reconceived for the cynical 2000s in Watson-Guptill's Truer Than True Romance (2001), let's see what the unknown original writer of this Jack Sparling-penciled and Vince Colletta-inked tale from DC's Young Romance #161 (1969) had in mind...

Is that adorable, or what???

Note: I really didn't believe there were any Vietnam War romance comic stories until I found this one!

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Valentine's Day!!!

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

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Truer Than True Romance

Love in the Time of Covid-19 FIRST ROMANCE "Midnight Kisses" and FIRST LOVE "Prescription - Love"

Usually it's two women fighting over the same man...

...but now, the tables are turned as a female MD must choose between a fellow doctor or a fever-ridden patient!

This tale from Harvey's First Romance #9 (1951) seems innocent, in fact, downright innocuous, eh?

The Comics Code Authority, founded in 1954, didn't think so!

When the story was reprinted in Harvey's First Love #79 (1957), they insisted on numerous changes...beginning with the title...which they apparently thought was too salacious!

Most of the other changes involve captions and dialogue, but also note a couple of art modifications!

Did the Comics Code go too far?
Were they over-reacting?
Enquiring minds want...nay...need to know~

Next Week...

Another Tale of Disease, Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

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

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

TOMB OF TERROR "What D'You Know, Joe?" / WEIRD "Gruesome Shock"

Here's a tale that's so NOT nice...

...that it was told twice, by two different publishers...using the same script!

The first version, illustrated by Jack Sparling, is from Harvey's Tomb of Terror #13 (1954).
Because it was considered too gruesome (even with heavy editing) to be reprinted, it was never printed in Comics Code-approved color comics.
But, the script, by an unknown writer, was re-used verbatim in a re-drawn version for Eerie Publications' b/w magazine Weird V9N1 (1969) with Cirilo Munoz providing the expanded (6 pages compared to 5 in the original) story's art!

Which version do you prefer, reader?

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More Halloween-season romance!

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Gothic Tales of Haunted Love

REACH FOR HAPPINESS "Episode 29"

We've followed the lives of Karen, Greg, Rita, and the rest of the populace of Danville Corners for 56 installments...

...but now, the final chapter begins!

Has Karen suddenly developed a magic touch to solve romantic relationships (except her own)?
And where the heck is she going?

Next Week:

The Heart-Stopping Finale!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!

This concluding chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #139 (1969) was written by Jack Miller and Barbara Friedlander, penciled by Jay Scott Pike and Jack Sparling, and inked by George Roussos.

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Heart Throbs

Best of DC Romance Comics