WARTIME ROMANCES "Make-Believe Marriage"

The 1950s.

When employers could legally-discriminate against you if you weren't married!

Here's a litany of lies and love (and a couple of wildly-improbable coincidences) illustrated by the legendary Matt Baker in St John's WarTime Romances #1, 1951.

Scripted by either Dana Dutch or editor Ruth Roche, this densely-plotted tale rivals the Simon-Kirby Young Romance and Young Love for appeal to both teen and young adult readers!

(In fact, the two demographics were pretty-evenly represented in 1940s-50s romance comics' readership!)

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A History of American Romance Comics

DARING LOVE "Paper Romance"

This week we're presenting a tale from Daring Love (1953), a one-shot comic featuring a one-time combination of two of the most famous artists in comic book history!

The artists are:
1) Matt Baker, whom we've shown here several times, doing layouts.
2) And, in his very first published story, Steve Ditko, who would later co-create Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, on finished pencils and inks.

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COWGIRL ROMANCES "Stars Fell on Arizona" / MOVIE COMICS "Mitzi in Hollywood Meets Sonny Sagebrush"

We've shown you reprints where fashions and hairstyles were updated...

but this story from Fiction House's CowGirl Romances #10 (1952) doesn't do that!

OK, pretty straightforward tale of a starry-eyed girl living near a movie location, getting to appear in the movie, meeting her screen idol, and not finding true love, right?

But, that's not how it started out!

This is actually a re-use of lovely Matt Baker art for an earlier ongoing series, Mitzi in Hollywood, about a struggling actress looking for her big break in Hollywood!

This particular episode from Fiction House's Movie Comics #4 (1947) was about working on a Western, and the original script was quite different...

Sadly, this was the final issue of Movie Comics, so no more Mitzi adventures ever appeared...except as heavily-modified reprints!

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

IT RHYMES WITH LUST "Chapter 6: the Serpent Coils" Conclusion

When Last We Left Rust, Hal, Audrey, and the rest...

...Hal has exposed Rust's secret control of Copper City!
The she-devil and her henchmen rush to the copper mines to retake control..at gunpoint if necessary!
But when her trigger-happy thugs shoot a miner, all hell breaks loose and Rust is forced to flee!

The End?
Not quite...

There's one more story to tell...

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IT RHYMES WITH LUST "Chapter 3: Deadly Female" Part 2

When Last We Left Our Protaganists...

Newspaperman Hal Weber runs the Copper City Express, which is secretly-owned by his ex-lover Rust Masson.

Rust also controls both the government and gangland of the city.

Though Rust believes she also controls Hal, her step-daughter Audrey is influencing the editor against Rust both intellectually and emotionally...

To Be Continued...

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