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Wednesday, November 4, 2026

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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Thursday, October 22, 2026

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!

You'll cry your eyes out if you miss it!
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

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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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Amorous Education CO-ED ROMANCES "Education for Love"

Cupid returns to the classroom...

...as we spend the rest of September with hormonally-driven college and high school students!

Art by Al Camy.
The writer is unknown.
PL's Co-Ed Romances (and its' "sister book" Love Life) only had a single issue each in 1951.

PL Publishing is noted as the only comics company with more than a single title to last only 6 months before going belly-up!
They published eight books, ranging from romance to sci-fi to Western to crime to jungle heroine to horror!
None ran more than three issues.

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We Continue with Stories Combining School and Sex!
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

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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