Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Advice d'Amour MARY WORTH "Doctor Ward's Secret" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...Mary Worth has taken in a new boarder, rich widow Lisa De Leon, who is in town so Dr Karen Ward can perform an experimental procedure.

Though Dr Ward is hesitant to do the operation, De Leon's offer to finance a new hospital is too generous to refuse!
As Dr Ward makes preparations, SeƱora De Leon (who refuses, for reasons unknown, to be seen in public without a heavy veil) travels to a nearby park to try to relieve her anxiety and depression.
But the happy people she sees depress her even more!
However, Fate has a tendency to change the course of someone's life, though it seems improbable...

Wow!
What will Michael Jones say when he finally sees the face of the woman who enthralls him?
Will he and Lisa De Leon become a May-December couple...though he doesn't know it?
And what will Mary Worth say or do about it?

The Answers to These and Other Questions Can be Found Here...Next Wednesday!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!!!


Historical note: Remember, this was the mid-1940s, when cosmetic surgery was still highly-experimental!
Plastic surgery was done almost exclusively to repair war-inflicted wounds and disfigurement.
Rhinoplasty (nose reduction surgery) had become popular from the 1920s on, but extensive cosmetic surgery to reduce the appearance of aging had not yet become the obsession it is today! 

And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...
Support True Love Comics Tales!
Visit Amazon and Buy...

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Advice d'Amour MARY WORTH "Doctor Ward's Secret" Part 1

Though Mary Worth has been published in newspapers continuously from 1938 to the present...

...unlike long-lived comic strip contemporaries, like Dick Tracy and Peanuts, Mary's stories have been reprinted almost haphazardly in paperback and comic book formats by several different publishers!
This tale from 1944, by Ken Ernst & Allen Saunders and combining daily and Sunday strips, is the longest single storyline ever reprinted, and even this reprint hasn't been seen in over a 3/4s of a century!
Let's join the storyline featuring a woman doctor (a rarity in the 1940s), a mysterious wealthy widow, experimental medical procedures, and incredibly-nosy neighbors...
What Secrets Will be Revealed...Next Week?
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!
This story appeared in Magazine Enterprises' one-shot Romantic Picture Novelettes (1946).
Historical note: This was Magazine Enterprises' (best-known for Frank Frazetta's Thun'da, and White Indian as well as the original Ghost Rider) first romance comic.
Their other love comics were Dream Book of Love and Dream Book of Romance.
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...

Support True Love Comics Tales!
Visit Amazon and Buy...

Friday, August 29, 2025

Super-Love SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE "Super-Bride's Secret!"

When Last We Left an Increasingly-Desperate Lois Lane...

...she had lost a catfight to Diana Prince, the then-powerless Wonder Woman...who has, apparently, regained her powers...and then some!
And Superman's plans to wed Wonder Woman are going "full speed ahead"!







Well, at least it wasn't a tacky fake romance, like Batman pulled with the aid of Batgirl and Wonder Woman as we showed HERE, HERE, and HERE!
Several points...
a) Why didn't Superman realize the woman he was kissing (several times) was wearing a mask?
He does have super-senses, right?
b) How was Ar-Ual going to put Wonder Woman into the Phantom Zone?
The criminal escaped from the Zone through a rift (which had re-sealed) and the only Phantom Zone projector on Earth is in Superman's Fortress of Solitude!
The Superman robots and possibly even the tiny Kandorians in their bottle city might notice an intruder!
and, c) I don't believe we've ever seen a version of Red Kryptonite that temporarily removes a Kryptonian's super-powers!
September Will be a Open Topic Month!
Anything Might Happen!
But, We'll Guarantee that...
You'll Cry Your Eyes out if You Miss It!
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...
Support True Love Comics Tales!
Visit Amazon and Buy...
(Which includes this Lois Lane story)
Paid Link

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Super-Love SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE "Superman-Wonder Woman Team!"

We Conclude Our Month of Super-Love with...
...Lois Lane facing off against Wonder Woman for the hand of Superman!
But, this is a story set during the era when Princess Diana didn't have her Amazon abilities and powers!
Who will prevail?
Read on...
To Be Continued, on Thursday, at Our "Sister" Blog, Heroines!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
Written by Robert Kanigher, penciled by Irv Novick, and inked by Mike Esposito, this tale from DC's Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #93 (1969) has never been included in any Lois Lane hardcover or trade paperback reprints!
But it has been reprinted...in a couple of Wonder Woman collections!

And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...
Support True Love Comics Tales!
Visit Amazon and Buy...
(Which includes this Lois Lane story)
Paid Link

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Super-Love SECRET WARS: SECRET LOVE "Misty and Danny Forever"

The Course of True Love Rarely Runs Smooth...

...especially when you're a "super-couple", as Danny (Iron Fist) Rand and Misty (Daughter of the Dragon) Knight-Rand, discover!
(Note: this is an Alternate Universe tale...)







Written by Jeremey Whitley, and illustrated by Gurihiru and Chifuyu Sasaki, this too-cute-for-words (and, sadly, never-reprinted) tale was from Marvel's Secret Wars: Secret Love one-shot, one of the few good parts of the whole terrible Secret Wars "Big Event" of 2015.

Next Week:
More Super-Love!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!