Love in the Time of Covid-19 TRUE LOVE PROBLEMS AND ADVICE ILLUSTRATED "Was It Love or Pity?"

You've read this basic plot before...but there's several twists you haven't seen...

Oddly, our tale, though listed second in the table of contents, appeared in the back of the book!

Dr Mathews doesn't think much of his own daughter...

This never-reprinted tale from Harvey's True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #2 (1949) was illustrated by comics workhorse Bob Powell.

The scripter is unknown, but could have been Powell himself.

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

TRUE LOVE PROBLEMS AND ADVICE ILLUSTRATED "Love Flirt" After and Before

When this story appeared in Harvey's True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #36 (1955)...

...the newly-formed Comics Code forced some alterations to the reprinted tale!

Now, here's the original version, from True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #16 (1952)...

Wow!

There's a lot more of Kit in that splash panel!

And there's a "naughty" caption in the second panel that the reprint leaves out!

The last word balloon "Hold me close, Bill -- very close!" was removed from the reprint!

In the reprint, part of the second panel's caption is deleted, Kit's swimsuit is blackened out, and her bust is reduced...and it wasn't a very revealing swimsuit to begin with!

The only change here is the removal of Kit's cleavage in panels 1, 3, and 5 and a change in her eyes in panel 4!
Interesting what the Comics Code Authority thought was "naughty" enough to warrant removal/modification, especially her eyes in panel 4 of the final page...

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Love on the Racks

A History of American Romance Comics