True Love Comics Tales: Love is a BattleField

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Love IS a BattleField SECRET STORY ROMANCES "Mary Parker's Man!"

When Your Former Military Commander Becomes Your Boss in Civilian Life...

...things may not go smoothly, on the job or personally!

So, Mary Parker's childhood love turns out to be a sleazy schmuck!

And, as the final panel points out, she's finally found a real man, not a juvenile loser!

Illustrated (and possibly written) by Bill Everett, this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Secret Story Romances #1 (1953) goes in a totally-different direction from what you saw at the beginning of the tale, when Danny was portrayed as far more sympathetic!

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Love IS a BattleField DARLING LOVE "I Want My Soldier Boy"

Today's story is About War...

...in several different ways!
Yet this ad, which utilized the tale's splash page, doesn't give away any of them!
Let's read on...

We've presented stories about Korean and German war brides who faced difficulties adjusting to their new lives in America after marrying servicemen, but never a case involving the husband's parents being prejudiced against the new wife!
It's not as if she's a "foreigner/alien" (non-English-speaking ethnic as many war brides were), but British, the nationality most white Americans at that point were descended from!
In fact WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) were the dominant ethnicity in business and politics from America's founding until the 1960s!

Notes:

Darling Love and it's sister, Darling Romance each ran a full-page ad promoting a story in the other's book!
AFAIK, publisher Darling Magazines was the only company to do this.
We took the ad from Darling Romance #5 (which used the tale's splash) and combined it with the rest of the story from Darling Love #5 (1950).
BTW, Darling Magazines was an imprint of MLJ Publishing, aka Archie Comics, which had been doing genre-specific imprints since the 1940s.
In the 1960s, they imitated Marvel with a Mighty Comics line featuring their various superhero character revivals, and in the 70s-80s, they had Red Circle, which published horror and super-hero material!