Amorous Education CAMPUS ROMANCES "What College Failed to Teach Me"

The Older Man/Younger Woman Trope Gets an Added Boost...

...with a never-reprinted story that involves (potentially) incest!

Can you tell this is a pre-Comics Code Authority story?

Illustrated by Ed Waldman and scripted by an unknown writer, this tale from Avon's Campus Romances #2 (1949) is meant for an older audience (late teen/early adult) audience than romance comics from the mid-1950s onward!

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A History of American Romance Comics
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Halloween HeartBreak GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE "Crush"

Just When You Believe American Romance Comics in General...

...and Gothic Romance Comics in Particular, Died Out, Along Comes a Kool Anthology of Them!

Scripted by Janet Hetherington, rendered by Ronn Sutton, and colored by Bekka Kinzie, this tale from Bedside Press' Gothic Tales of Haunted Love is a wild variation on the "handsome widowed sea captain and the beautiful virginal governess" plot that was a classic Victorian romance trope which still has a happy ending, even without the sea captain...or perhaps due to not having the sea captain!

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Another Tale of Out-of-This-World-Love!

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Gothic Tales of Haunted Love

Halloween HeartBreak WEB OF EVIL "Face from Hell"

This is one time you really can't judge a book by it's cover!

...and only True Love will provide the ability to those whose eyes will not see to discern the Truth!

Illustrated by Golden Age/Silver Age workhorse Charles Nicholas and scripted by an unknown writer, this sordid story from Quality's Web of Evil #11 (1954) could've benefited with an extra page to really show the demise of the demon!
After all, it was published in a horror comic, not a romance comic!

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Lost Love FALLING IN LOVE "I Found My Love at the WoodStock Festival!"

When We Ran Last Week's Never-Reprinted Lost Love Story Set at Woodstock...

...we had no idea there was a second, also never-reprinted tale...from DC, of all places!

(And this story came out months before the Marvel one!)

Penciled by Werner Roth, inked by Murphy Anderson, and scripted by...well, we don't know who wrote this rather saccharine story...it's nowhere near as "gritty" or realistic (if you can call any comic book tale "realistic") as the My Love piece we ran last week.
To offer a comparison...
The My Love creatives, Gary Friedrich and Gray Morrow were 28 and 38, respectively.
The Falling in Love creatives, Werner Roth and Murphy Anderson, were 50 and 46 at the time.
So we're looking at a differing generational point of view of those events between the two tales...and it really shows!

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Our Annual Month-Long Halloween Heartbreak Blogathon Begins!

It's Heart-Stopping in More Ways Than One!

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Heart Throbs

Best of DC Romance Comics

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Super-Love MAN OF STEEL, WOMAN OF KLEENEX

You know you've wondered about it...

Normally, we'd post the rest of this fascinating (and scientifically-accurate) four-page article right here, but this version from Penthouse Comix #5 (1995), while illustrated by 1960s-80s primary Superman artist Curt Swan, has nudity, so you'll have to go to our "brother" RetroBlog...

Not Safe for Work Comics

to read the rest!

It's worth the effort, but don't go there if you're on your office or school computer!

Wait until you get home!

If you're already home...go for it!

Super-Love I ❤︎ MARVEL : Ai "Scarlet Witch in 'Meld with You' "

Though the "Ai" in this one-shot's title refers to the translated Japanese word for "love"...

...this non-continuity story features Marvel's most famous Artificial Intelligence, The Vision with The Scarlet Witch!

Written by C B Cebulski and illustrated by Tomoko Taniguchi, this never-reprinted tale was part of a collection of five 2006 one-shots on sale around Valentine's Day, featuring Marvel characters in romantic situations told in various narrative styles.

This particular anthology was done as manga and presented three tales, including the Avengers shown above along with Black Bolt and Medusa as well as Black Widow, Elektra, and Daredevil along with Karen Page)!

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SUGAR BOWL COMICS "Ginny in 'I Hate Men!' "

Why can't hating men be fun?

This never-reprinted entry in the teen humor genre from Eastern Color's Sugar Bowl Comics #2 (1948) answers the question!

Ginny Lambert was the comic's lead character, and disappeared when the book was cancelled after only five issues!
None of the title's stories have ever been reprinted, and we intend to correct that oversight in the future.
Illustrated by Gerald "Jerry" Fasano, who worked in the business from 1949 to 1959, then disappeared.

Whether he passed away or simply switched to another profession is unknown, as is the scripter of this tale.

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Our Final "I Hated Men" Tale is Fatal for One of the Characters!

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Archie's Rivals in Teen Comics

1940s-1970s

An Illustrated History