Asian Amour ALL TRUE ROMANCE "Korean War Bride"

I've been going through the archives looking for romance comic stories featuring Asians...

...and besides some relationships in super-hero and martial arts series, all I found, so far, are tales about "war brides"!

With the current explosion of overt anti-Asian racism, we're running a RetroBog-wide presentation of stories showing how Asians and Asian-Americans been portrayed in comic books.

This never-reprinted story from Comic Media's All True Romance #11 (1953) is the first example.

Distrust and suspicion of "war brides"...whether Asian or European...was common, with many believing the women were "seductresses" taking advantage of "innocent" Americans via sex!
There are other types of tales out there...it's just going to take time to find them...

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Pursued by Japanese invaders, a wounded Korean soldier comes upon a house inhabited by two sisters who agree to aid him upon condition that he marry one of them.

He does so, and when the Japanese squad arrives, the sisters reveal themselves to be expert swordswomen who kill the entire squad...

The phrase "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned!" apparently applies to women in all cultures.

Here's writer/artist Sanho Kim explaining the basis of this type of tale...

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Though Haunted Love was Charlton's Gothic romance title...

...ghostly love stories like this unique bi-lingual tale could pop up anywhere in the publisher's comic line!

Based on a classic Korean folk tale, this fascinating tale, scripted and illustrated by Sanho Kim was an experiment that, unfortunately, was never repeated.

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Welcome to a month of Gothic Romance, beginning with manga...

...or more specifically, manhwa, by the first Korean artist in American comics, Sanho Kim.

It's odd to see panel pages in that art style in full-color, isn't it?

We're used to seeing manga and manhwa in b/w or two-color!

Sanho Kim (or Kim San-ho) was already an acclaimed writer/artist in South Korea before coming to the US in 1966.

Illustrating a wide variety of genres including romance, horror, war, and martial arts, Sanho worked primarily for Charlton (who published this tale in Haunted Love #9 in 1975), with occasional work for Warren (where he also wrote the stories he illustrated), Marvel, and Skywald, totaling over several hundred stories.

Sanho returned to South Korea in 1996 and continues to write and illustrate at the age of 72.

He received the Order of Cultural Merit (much like the Kennedy Center Honors in America) in 2008.

There's a kool article about him HERE.

And, you'll be seeing more of his work on this blog.

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