Halloween HeartBreak FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Timeless Tribe!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Art by Kurt Shaffenberger

Rod Merritt travelled to South America to investigate claims of an ancient civilization of immortals!

He discovers people who can metamorph into various forms including statuary, but seem to have a particular talent for transforming into animals including lions, jaguars, and rhinos!
While the rest of the expedition is slaughtered, Rod is kept alive at the behest of Leona, one of the leaders of the hidden people, who is attracted to him...

So, what did you expect?
A happy ending?

Not what writer/editor Richard Hughes and artist Ken Landau had in mind for this story from ACG's Forbidden Worlds #145 (1967).
Note: Despite his being "repulsed" at seeing Leona's true form, Rod accepts death as long as it's at her side.
BTW, here's the original art for that page...

Was Leona originally-conceived as being even more alien-appearing?

Did the Comics Code Authority make them tone it down?

We'll never know...

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Halloween HeartBreak FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Timeless Tribe!" Part 1

The SubText of This Year's Halloween HeartBreak  has been "Not  What They Seem"!

And nowhere is that more accurate than in this two-part Halloween blogathon finale!

Impossible?

A human and were-cat in love is impossible?

Haven't we seen humans and vampires, humans and werewolves, humans and ghosts, even humans and ghouls/zombies all happily "getting busy"?
What could possibly prevent this kool coupling?

Or is there something else we haven't yet learned?

You'll know the startling truth only if you're here...tomorrow!

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Love in the Time of Covid-19 LOVELORN "Helping Heart!"

Just when you thought they couldn't do anything else with a disease-themed romance tale...

...this never-reprinted story from ACG's LoveLorn #3 (1949-50) comes along with a tale jam-packed with unexpected soap opera-style plot-twists!

Wow!

I'm exhausted!

So, jaded, manipulative girl loses handsome doctor to woman whose inherent innocence and purity of heart (and extreme work ethic) lures the MD to her...and she didn't even intend to do so!

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Another Tale of Disease, Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

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Love in the Time of Covid-19 CONFESSIONS OF THE LOVELORN "Man in My Past!"

Warning: the story under this Ken Bald-illustrated cover is about an incurable disease...

...but it's not the incurable disease you'll think it is after the first few pages!

So he's not cured, but in remission, though the doctor says the operation was a "complete success"!

Written by editor Richard E Hughes and illustrated by Howard Alexander, this never-reprinted tale from ACG's Confessions of the LoveLorn #57 (1955) tries to make Alan honorable, even noble!

But instead of being honest with his wife, he all but abandoned her and then returned years later expecting her to take him back!

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Love in the Time of Covid-19 CONFESSIONS OF THE LOVELORN "Someone of My Own!"

Here's a never-reprinted tale from ACG's Confessions of the Lovelorn #95 (1958)...

...that redefines "lovesick"!

Writer Richard Hughes and illustrator Sam Citron add a new twist to the old "steal the doctor from the rich girl whose father is financing his research" plot so common in romance comics!

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LOVELORN "Come Back My Love!" in TrueVision!

You won't need red/blue 3-D glasses to read the 3-D comic story...

...behind this Ogden Whitney cover, because it's not red/blue 3-D, but an idea to simulate 3-D called...

While other companies were doing actual 3-D, ACG decided to save a few bucks and also tout the fact their "3-D" was still FULL color!
And now, on with the story...

It's a clever concept, but I can see how it would become irritating on an ongoing basis.

The big problem is that the cheap "newsprint" paper was never meant to have so much solid black ink on the pages, resulting in blotchy backgrounds!

Art on this never-reprinted story from ACG's Lovelorn #51 (1954) was by Edmond Good, who worked in various genres for DC, Fox, Nedor/Standard, Fawcett, and ACG, among others.

He left comics to become the Art Director for Tupperware from the mid-1950s until his retirement in the mid-1970s!

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