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 BEWARE "Black Death" & TALES FROM THE TOMB "Devil's Plague"

Here's a story that was so not nice, they presented it twice!

Illustrator Henry Kiefer and an unknown writer crafted this tale for Trojan Magazine's Beware #7 (1954), during the height of the horror comics boom!

Because of the content, it was never reprinted after the Comics Code came into effect!

(And, to this day, still hasn't been reprinted!)

But that doesn't mean the story itself hasn't reappeared...

...as the editor of Eerie Publications' b/w magazine line (which was not regulated by the Comics Code) had artist Oscar Fraga re-do the tale verbatim from the original script in Tales From the Tomb V2N3 (1970)!

This version has been reprinted several times throughout the Eerie Publications line from 1971 to 1980, when they went out of business!

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Volume 1: You Know You Want It!

Love in the Time of Covid-19 TALES TO ASTONISH "Scheme!"

Most romance comics tales about disease involve nobility and sacrifice...

...but not this one (which, technically, isn't a romance comic tale)!

BTW, since numerous others (including her servants) were in close physical contact with Anne and didn't catch the disease, the only way it could be transmitted was via (ahem) "marital relations"!

(Fine, no more euphemisms...sexual intercourse!)

Pretty kinky for a Silver Age Comics Code-approved tale, eh?

Plotter Stan Lee, writer Larry Lieber, penciler Gene Colan, and inker Dick Ayers all had experience in romance genre comics, but this particular story appeared in Atlas' Tales to Astonish #28 (1962)...a sci-fi anthology...just as Atlas was transitioning into Marvel Comics!

(Trivia: the previous issue of Astonish featured the first appearance of Hank (Ant-Man) Pym!)

I can't help but wonder what the target audience of 8-to-15 year old boys thought of this particular tale...

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s...including "My Heart Broke in Hollywood,"

Collects Love Romance #89 and #101-104; My Love #2, #14, #16 and #18-20; Teen-Age Romance #77 and #84, Our Love Story #5; and Patsy Walker #119.

Love in the Time of Covid-19 UNTAMED LOVE "Man Trap"

Oddly, romance and disease seem to go hand-in-hand...

...and this particular tale adds industrial espionage into the mix!

This never-reprinted story from Quality's Untamed Love #2 (1950) shows us idealism, nobility and true love winning out!

Unfortunately, in our cynical times, such a tale couldn't be told with a straight face.

Think about that...

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