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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Another Tale of Disease, Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

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Love in the Time of Covid-19 LOVE ROMANCES "Confessions of Judith Temple"

Despite the lurid title...

...this is a story about disease and it's effect on a young woman's life!

Wow! How things have changed!

To think a bunch of busybody biddies might have the power to drive someone out of town without any evidence of wrongdoing!

Sounds a lot like the chant "LOCK HER UP!", eh?

"Infantile paralysis" is another name for polio, for which Dr Jonas Salk developed a vaccine in 1955, four years after this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Love Romances #19 was published!

Versatile multi-genre illustrator Frank R. Sieminsky did several dozen comic stories from romance to Westerns to crime and horror from the late 1940s to early 1950s.

What he did after that is unknown...

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Love in the Time of Covid-19 TEEN SECRET DIARY "He Loves Me"

Though it's all but eliminated now, polio (a virus like Covid-19)...

... was once rampant in our population, crippling hundreds of thousands until a vaccine was created!

Interesting how polio proved to be an "equalizer", turning a social snob into (as my father used to say) "a genuine human being"!

Penciled by (I think) Tony Talarico and inked (definitely) by Sal Trapani, this never-reprinted story from Charlton's Teen Secret Diary #3 (1960) is a paean to a time when we were a somewhat more empathetic society.

The writer is, unfortunately, unknown.

The fact one of our then-recent Presidents, Franklin D Roosevelt, was crippled by polio was a factor in the speed a cure was found.

Wonder if that would work today...

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Another Tale of Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!

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