Showing posts with label Romantic Adventures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romantic Adventures. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

ROMANTIC ADVENTURES "Bewitching Buccaneer"

Swashbucking rogues have always been objects of romantic desire...
...as this tale featuring a sea-going scalliwag in the Errol Flynn/Tyrone Power mold proves!
Romances set in the Old West were a popular sub-genre of both comics and novels in the early 1950s.
In fact there were a number of titles like Range Romances, Golden West, and  CowGirl Romances!
This story from ACG's Romantic Adventures #8 (1950) may have been a test to see if comic readers were interested in historical romance tales set in other time periods.
Since pirates were popular in novels, it was thought they'd sell equally-well in comics.
However, reader response must have been lackluster, since such "historical romances" remained few and far between on the four-color pages.
BTW, Anne Bonny was a real female pirate, and will be the subject of this week's post on our "sister" blog Heroines this Friday, when we re-present the first story in her short-lived comic series!
Written by series editor Richard E Hughes, illustrated by Charles Sultan.
Next week:
We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)
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