YOUNG ROMANCE "Full Hands, Empty Heart"

There are very few black romance stories in comics before the 1990s...

..and even fewer interracial romance stories during this tumultuous period in American racial relations!

Note: On some pages Phyllis' skin is gray and on some it's brown.

That's because on the pages showing her as gray, the color separators used the wrong combination of yellow, red (magenta) and blue (cyan) screens.

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YOUNG ROMANCE "Different!" Conclusion

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Successful businessman Jack Williams and his family move to a small town where they're welcomed with open arms...until the locals discover he's an immigrant and his real name is Jacoby Wilheim!

(Note: he and his wife appear to be naturalized American citizens, and the children are apparently native-born Americans!)

Suddenly, business falls off, and his family become social pariahs!

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby weren't the sorts to let social injustices stand without speaking out.

The prejudices presented here, though mild, were (and are) quite real, and Simon & Kirby should be credited with trying to present the truth about them to their impressionable audience in Prize's Young Romance #30 (1951).

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YOUNG ROMANCE "Different!" Part 1

With ethnic and religious prejudice on the rise again...

...perhaps we should look back on how pop culture tried to deal with it back in the 1940s...

For the answer to that, you'll have to be back here next Wednesday!

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby weren't the sorts to let social injustices stand without speaking out.

The prejudices presented here, though mild, were (and are) quite real, and Simon & Kirby should be credited with trying to present the truth about them to their impressionable audience in Prize's Young Romance #30 (1951).

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YOUNG ROMANCE "Man-Hater"

WIth the GOP Presidential Convention in full swing...

...let's look at what Repugs (and immature boys) think women are like and what it takes to "tame" them!

Written and penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Kirby and Joe Simon, this never-reprinted tale from Prize's Young Romance #3 (1948) is almost a spoof of the "I'll trick the superior (more intelligent/athletic) woman into loving me" storyline that actually was popular in B-movies of the period!

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YOUNG ROMANCE "I Love You, Frank Gerard"

You think "mansplaining" is a new phenomenon?

Hardly.

It was happening at least as far back as 1948, when this tale appeared!

This never-reprinted story of business, love, and the business of love is from Prize's Young Romance #4 (1948).

Layouts by Jack Kirby, pencils by Jerry Robinson & Mort Meskin, inks by Joe Simon.

The writer is unknown, but believed to be Simon and/or Kirby.

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YOUNG ROMANCE "Goodbye, My Darling"

What if he was going to leave you...and it was all your fault?

Would the guilt rip you apart, or bring you together?

I'd have that doctor up on malpractice charges in a hot minute!

First he tells her "Your husband's gonna die within a year, and it's your fault!", then it's "Oh, he's fine, it's a miracle!"

The guy's a quack!

The writer for this tale from Prize's Young Romance #89 (1957) is unknown, and it's just as well!

The nicely-done art is by Lou Cameron (pencils) and Vince Colletta (inks).

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