Laugh at Love on Valentine's Day MARGIE COMICS "Elusive Valentine!"

Here's a never-reprinted Valentine's Day treat...

...from almost 80 years ago years ago, featuring a teen humor character from the company that later became Marvel Comics!

Until the mid 1970s when Archie Comics became the sole "teen humor" publisher, every company had several titles with wacky teenage protagonists.
Margie, created/written/illustrated by Morris Weiss was typical of the genre...

• Irresponsible, impulsive teen (of either gender)!
• Usually-clueless object of affection!
• Constantly-irritated parents!
• An annoying younger sibling (usually of the opposite gender to the protagonist)!
• Various eccentric friends!

Initially a backup strip that floated to whatever humor comic needed a 5-6 page filler, she finally got her own title by taking over Timely's Comedy Comics in 1946 as of #35 and holding on to it until #50 in 1950, when the book became Reno Browne: Hollywood's Greatest Cowgirl.
Margie went back to being a floating backup strip for another year before disappearing completely, never to be seen again!
This particular tale (one of the few comic tales I could find with "Valentine's Day" in the title that didn't deal with the famous gang-war massacre!) is from Timely's Margie Comics #37 (1946).

Happy Valentine's Day!

IDEAL LOVE AND ROMANCE "Forbidden Love"

Sometimes the opening caption says it all...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Ideal Love and Romances #5 (1949) demonstrates.

Both the writer and penciler are unknown, though the inker appears to be Christopher Rule.

BTW, though this issue was #5, it was actually the one and only issue of Timely's Ideal Love and Romance!

Before that, it was Ideal: a Classical Comic. 

With #6 it became simply Love Romances, and survived for one hundred issues as Timely became Atlas, until #106 (1963) around the time Atlas became Marvel!

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

ROMANCES OF THE WEST "Cowboy or the Playboy?"

Did she want a man...or a real man?

This "modern" Western (set in the present) has the answer!

This never-reprinted tale from Timely's Romances of the West #1 (1949) was one of Marvel mainstay John Buscema's earliest assignments, and only his second romance tale!

To see other examples of his romance comics work from the 1950s to the 1970s click HERE!

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The Golden Age of Romance Comics

IDEAL LOVE AND ROMANCE "Unfaithful!"

Sometimes the opening caption says it all...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Ideal Love and Romances #5 (1949) demonstrates.

Artist Pete Tumlinson was extremely versatile,

Besides romance books, he did war, horror, crime, and Western stories with equal aploomb!

Rendering over 150 stories (and some covers) from 1948 to 1955, he moved into commercial art (mostly book illustration) after the big comic book implosion caused by the "Seduction of the Innocent" witchhunt put many writers and artists out of work.

The writer is unknown.

BTW, though this issue was #5, it was actually the one and only issue of Ideal Love and Romance!

Before that, it was Ideal: a Classical Comic,  

With #6 it became simply Love Romances, and survived for one hundred issues until #106 (1963)!

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The Golden Age of Romance Comics

ACTUAL ROMANCES "I Refused to Share My Husband's Love!"

Incest (potential or otherwise) is a near-taboo subject on soap operas today...

...but the then-brand new genre of romance comics took several cracks at it back in the 1940s.

Note: this never-reprinted tale from Timely Comics' Actual Romances #1 (1949) makes the brother and sister step-siblings, just to be safe.

Though the Grand Comics Database lists Mike Sekowsky as the artist, it looks a lot like a combination of Werner Roth and Bill Everett, both of whom were working for Timely.

The writer is unknown.

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