Laugh at Love! MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX "Mice and Money" / LOVE ROMANCES "By Love Betrayed!"

Here's a Silver Age romance story illustrated by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta...

...which noted award-winning novelist/screenwriter/comic book author Joe R Lansdale rewrote!

I doubt plotter Stan Lee and scripter Larry Leiber or artists Kirby and Colletta ever thought this story would end up reading like that!

In fact, editor Lee was so pleased with the results that he made it the cover story for Atlas' Love Romances #102 (1962)...even though no cover art existed!

(The main figure is from the story's splash panel and the others are re-worked art from other stories!)

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Our Annual "Beach Read" Gothic Romance...but with a Humorous Twist!

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Marvel Romance Redux

Love in the Time of Covid-19 TALES TO ASTONISH "Scheme!"

Most romance comics tales about disease involve nobility and sacrifice...

...but not this one (which, technically, isn't a romance comic tale)!

BTW, since numerous others (including her servants) were in close physical contact with Anne and didn't catch the disease, the only way it could be transmitted was via (ahem) "marital relations"!

(Fine, no more euphemisms...sexual intercourse!)

Pretty kinky for a Silver Age Comics Code-approved tale, eh?

Plotter Stan Lee, writer Larry Lieber, penciler Gene Colan, and inker Dick Ayers all had experience in romance genre comics, but this particular story appeared in Atlas' Tales to Astonish #28 (1962)...a sci-fi anthology...just as Atlas was transitioning into Marvel Comics!

(Trivia: the previous issue of Astonish featured the first appearance of Hank (Ant-Man) Pym!)

I can't help but wonder what the target audience of 8-to-15 year old boys thought of this particular tale...

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s...including "My Heart Broke in Hollywood,"

Collects Love Romance #89 and #101-104; My Love #2, #14, #16 and #18-20; Teen-Age Romance #77 and #84, Our Love Story #5; and Patsy Walker #119.

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "Beware! He Isn't Human!"

Is this unseen-for-fifty-years tale a love story or a lust story?

Actually, it's both...as you shall see!

Reads like an episode of The Twilight Zone, doesn't it?

Plotted by Stan Lee, scripted by Larry Lieber, penciled by Jack Kirby, and inked by Dick Ayers, this story of hearts (both human and mechanical) first appeared in Atlas' Journey into Mystery #77 (1962), then once more in Marvel's Fantasy Masterpieces #10 (1967)!

We unearthed it from it's half-century-old tomb, dusted it off, and re-presented it for your entertainment!

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Weird Love

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