NEGRO ROMANCE "Possessed" Part 1

It's said that Love is blind.
In comics, at least, it's also color-blind.
When Black or other ethnic characters appeared in titles published in the Golden Age of Comics (1940s-50s), they were usually stereotypes common to movies and radio shows of the period.
There were a couple of notable exceptions.
One was All-Negro Comics, a comic created and produced by a Black publishing house, which, ended up being a one-shot title.  (There's a fascinating article about it HERE.)
The other was a romance comic...Negro Romance, published by Fawcett Comics (Captain Marvel, Hopalong Cassidy) and Charlton Comics.
We'll go into the history of the book later.
Right now, let's look at love...

 WTF?

"Interesting", indeed!

Is Gloria's world about to crumble around her?

If so, what is she going to do about it...and to whom?

And what about the history behind the all-but forgotten Negro Romance comic?

To find out, you'll have to be here...Tomorrow!

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JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "My Cosmic Hero"

A romantic summer evening at the drive-in...

...except it's in the 21st Century...as seen from the viewpoint of 1952!
(I'm still waiting for my flying car!)

If the art style looks familiar, it's the work of Dan DeCarlo, who helped establish the iconic "look" of Archie Comics!
Dan actually started at Atlas Comics (the 1940s-50s predecessor to Marvel Comics) doing a variety of humor strips before beginning a long-term run on various Archie titles in 1951.
Even then, he continued to work for a number of other publishers, including Standard Comics, who asked him to create, write, and illustrate a teen-humor series.
(Every publisher had at least one of them!)
Exactly whose idea it was to set it in the "far future" of the 21st Century is unknown, but the resultant strip, though extremely derivative of Archie, was unique in the teen-humor genre for it's Jetsons-style setting and "futuristic" slang.

BTW, we're presenting more teen-humor because our post on Tippy Teen was one of the most popular items we've ever run!
(And we have lots of teen-humor material on hand!  Archie Comics isn't the only stuff out there!)

Is there a particular genre (Western, gothic, action, humor, etc.) or time period (1950s, 1960s, 1970s) you'd like to see stories from?
We've posted material from a wide variety of subjects over the past few months.
We'd love to have you post comments so we have a better handle on what types of strips you'd like to see here.

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JUST MARRIED "A Good Fight is Fun!"

If you're not married, ask your friends (or your parents). They'll tell you...

...making up afterwards is really the best part!

From Just Married #102, published in 1974.

Art by Demetrio Sanchez Gomez (who signs each page).

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WARTIME ROMANCES "Make-Believe Marriage"

The 1950s.

When employers could legally-discriminate against you, if you weren't married!

Here's a litany of lies and love (and a couple of wildly-improbable coincidences) illustrated by the legendary Matt Baker in WarTime Romances #1, 1951.

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JET DREAM "The Achilles Heel"

Here's a cautionary tale about handsome men...

...featuring an all-woman crimefighting team that predates Charlie's Angels by almost a decade!

This short tale by writer Dick Wood, penciler Mike Sekowsky, and inker Frank Giacoia is from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #13 (1967).

Jet Dream and Her StuntGirl CounterSpies appeared in 4-page tales in the middle of the book from #8 to #22, then appeared in a book-length story in a one-shot comic.

It's never been reprinted, and very few of the stories are available on the Net...until now!

We're re-presenting the entire series, beginning with the premiere currently at our "brother" blog Hero & Heroine Histories™.

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