Amorous Education/Wedding Bliss OUR LOVE STORY "A Boy to Marry!"

Our final Amorous Education entry until September...

...involves graduation and the choices made after it, as this cover by John Buscema and inker John Verpoorten shows!

Written by Stan Lee, penciled by Gene Colan and inked by Dick Ayers, this tale from Marvel's Our Love Story #8 (1970) shows not going to college has its' benefits...perhaps not the message Stan meant to send...

It's also a perfect segue into our theme for June...Wedding Bliss, all about the actual ceremony when two souls are bonded into one..but in romance comics it doesn't always go smoothly, as you'll see starting next week!

Next Week...

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The Golden Age of Romance Comics
(BTW, note she's wearing a wedding dress!)

Amorous Education LOVE ROMANCES "No Dates for the Dance!" / MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX "Callie Crandall: Co-Ed Campus Undercover Cuite"

College is stressful enough without this...

...which is enough to reduce even the smartest of students to a despairing sad sack!

You would think this tale about a girl falling for a guy who looks exactly like the younger version of her daddy by penciler Dick Giordano & inker Vince Colletta (along with an unknown writer)  from Atlas' Love Romances #89 (1960) was kinky enough, right?

But Marvel decided it needed the raunchiness kicked up to 11!

So writer Michael Lieb kept the art, but re-wrote the story for Marvel Romance Redux: Restraining Orders are for Other Girls (2006)...

Just when you thought romance comics couldn't get any weirder...

Next Week...

Another Tale of Amorous Education!

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Which includes "No Dates for the Dance"
And / Or

Marvel Romance Redux
Which includes "Callie Crandall: Co-Ed College Cutie"

MY LOVE "Must I Live Without Love?"

We saw last week how wonderfully legendary artist John Buscema portrayed women in swimsuits...

...so here's a cover that takes a scene occurring (in the story) during the chilly Autumn and turns it into a hot Summer pic...

When this story by writer Stan Lee, penciler John Buscema, and inker Sal Buscema (yes, John's little brother, who's an equally-gifted penciler) initially-appeared in Marvel's My Love V2N1 (1969), it wasn't the cover-featured tale.

But, when it was reprinted in Marvel's My Love Special #1 (1971), a new cover, based on the last panel of Page 6, was commissioned.

Guess they felt a bare-chested guy and bikini-clad girl would sell better than the sweater-clad couple in the story...

Next week:

Be here Monday as we begin our annual Beach Read blogathon featuring a book-length, multi-chapter Gothic romance!

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s!

"It Happened at Woodstock," "My Heart Broke in Hollywood," "Love on the Rebound!"

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.

MY LOVE "Only Myself to Blame!"

When Last We Left Our Heartbroken Heroine...

...well, who can tell us better than Stan (the Man) Lee, himself?

And now, on with the only two-part tale in Marvel romance comic history...

Sal Buscema took over on inking from John Romita Sr, but otherwise the creative lineup stayed the same for this sequel tale from Marvel's My Love #4 (1969).

Oddly though both this and it's lead-in story were reprinted a couple of times, they were never reprinted either in the same issue or back-to-back issues!

BTW, the cover above says "My Love #38".

It's actually the cover from the previous story, reversed.

This chapter of the two-parter wasn't given the cover, so we decided to run the rather nice John Romita Sr piece as our header.

BTW, when reprinted, this tale didn't appear in My Love #38 or #39!

It appeared in Our Love Story #22 (1973), three years before the first part of the story was reprinted in My Love #38 (1976)!

Next Week...

We don't yet know what we'll present!

But, we can guarantee that...

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

(Yeah, we say that a lot...but it's true!)

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s.

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.

MY LOVE "Man I Must Not Love!"

Besides featuring the work of three of Silver Age Marvel's artistic legends...

...this is the opener of the only two-part tale Marvel's romance line ever published!
(DC did numerous soap opera-style serialized romance strips, but Marvel never did!)

Scripted by Stan Lee, penciled by John Buscema, and inked by John Romita (Sr), the cover-featured tale from Marvel's My Love #3 (1970) has been reprinted a couple of times...but, oddly without the sequel story being reprinted either in the same issue, or even the next issue!
Weird, eh!

Next Week...

The "Soul-Stirring Sequel"!

We can guarantee that...

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s.

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.

Marvel's Disappearing Black Woman!

Hey, Marvelites, remember Jill Jerold?

Before Ororo Munroe was Storm...

Before Misty Knight was a Daughter of the Dragon...

...Jill was Marvel's first ongoing Black female character...

...who was last seen in in 2009, either romantically-involved or just "friends with benefits", with Johnny Storm/the Human Torch!

After this brief appearance by Johnny in Marvel's Models, Inc #1 (2009), the relationship was never mentioned again, and Jill disappeared into limbo once more!

Pity...

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We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...

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