Good Girls LOVE Bad Boys REALISTIC ROMANCES "The Shame is Mine"

Why is it good girls love "bad  boys"?

I guess when the endorphins are flowing, "better judgement" goes out the window, even for the most innocent of us.

This story from Avon's Realistic Romances #16 (1954) was part of a growing sub-genre known as "crime romances".

Though not as popular another concepts that mixed genres (Western or military romances), it generated enough interest that one book, Fawcett's Love Mystery, was devoted only to tales that combined romance and criminal activities (usually committed by the guy in the relationship)!

Trivia:

This story was from the second run of Realistic Romances which ran #15-#17.

The first series ran from #1-#8.

A third series from another publisher ran #1, then #8-#9!

So if you're looking to collect this title, there's no #10-#14, but there are two #1s and #8s!

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Haunted HeartBreak HAUNTED LOVE "Reunion" Conclusion

We have already seen...

Daniel and Cleo were the perfect couple, but shortly before their wedding, tragedy befell as Cleo drowned during a sudden storm.
For months, Daniel obsessed over his lost love.
Anton and Nadia, a pair of con-artists pretending to be psychics, offered Daniel the chance to speak to Cleo's restless spirit...

Written by Joe Gill, a longtime comics writer who penned tales in every genre from romance to sci-fi.
Illustrated by Joe Staton, who recently helped revive the Dick Tracy newspaper comic strip!

Next Week: Our Final  Haunted HeartBreak Story for 2026!

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Gothic Tales of Haunted Love

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Halloween HeartBreak HAUNTED LOVE "Reunion" Part 1

"Gothic romances" were one of the last  genres to make it to comic books...

and once they arrived, didn't last very long.

This story is from the longest-lasting title, Charlton's Haunted Love.

Will Anton and Nadia "put one over" on Daniel, or is Nadia actually psychic?

Will Daniel and Cleo be reunited?

And if so, how?

Will True Love prevail?

Fear Not! 

You don't  have to wait until next week!

The heart-tugging conclusion will be posted...

Tomorrow!

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It's the Season for Lovin' ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "September Squall"

Now that it's September...

...let's tell a seasonally-appropriate, never-reprinted, cover-featured story that really fits the concept of a "beach read'!

The painted cover art (by the story's artist, Warren King) was based on the final panel.
While other comics publishers used painted covers on their romance comics, most of those were re-used pulp or paperback paintings which were unrelated to the interior stories!
You've likely noted a couple of two-page spreads at the beginning of the story and at the conclusion.
St John's Adventures in Romance #1 (1949), experimented with doing double-page spreads in each story to establish a distinctive "look".
Sadly, the series only lasted two issues.  ;-(
Artist Warren King spent several years in comic books doing everything from superheroes to horror to romance, before moving into newspaper cartooning, becoming the in-house editorial cartoonist at the NY Daily News and winning the National Cartoonists Society Best Editorial Cartoonist Award in 1968.
He passed away in 1978.

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(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)

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Tales Twice Told GIRLS' LOVE STORIES "This is Our Moment"

Yesterday, We Presented a Story from the '60s...

...that featured modified clothing and hairstyles as usual when it was reprinted a half-decade later!

But, it also had a radical modification not present in most of those reprints...

Pages 3 thru 6 of the original story are dropped, and we now continue with what was originally page 7...

Why did Editor Dorothy Woolfolk drop four pages from this story when it was "updated" for DC's Girls' Love Stories #162 (1971)

It wasn't for space reasons, as there were lots of other reprintable stories that would've fitted into the allocated pages without extensive re-editing!
We'll never know the answer...

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Tales Twice Told SECRET HEARTS "What About Some Love for Me?"

How many of us have been treated like doormats by our "friends"...

...even to the point where we'd actually help them steal the one we love?

I'll bet a lot of readers can identify with Katie...

We don't know how Jane reacted to this turn of events...nor do we care!

This cover-featured tale from DC's Secret Hearts #109 (1966) was penciled by John Romita, inked by Bernard Sachs with several panels redrawn by Mike Sekowsky.

(Romita had just gone over to Marvel to take over as the artist on Daredevil, and shortly thereafter, Spider-Man!)
Like many other stories of the era, it was reprinted with updated fashions and hairstyles!
But, unlike most of those stories, when it was reprinted, it was also heavily-reedited and rewritten, with almost half the pages cut!

See that  version...tomorrow!
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