PERSONAL LOVE "Too Late for Love"

There's a long-standing stereotype about scheming secretaries who steal married men...

...demonstrated in this superbly-rendered story from Personal Love #25 (1954)!

Though the writer is unknown, the art is by fantasy art master Frank Frazetta, who did another story we've presented HERE.

BTW, Lila is based on 1950s pin-up queen Bettie Page...

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GOLDEN WEST LOVE "The Love I Almost Lost"

It's not often we run a real-life love story about a celebrity...

...and, in addition, it's a Western romance!

Annie Oakley appeared in almost 300 stories in the 1950s and '60, including several strips in anthology comics, numerous guest appearances in other character's strips, and at least two solo comic books.
This story from Golden West Love #2 (1949) was penciled by Tex Blaisdell and inked by John Augustin.
The writer is unknown. 

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YOUNG LOVE "One Boy After Another"

Even though New Year's is behind us, some girls just can't stop partying...

as shown in this 60s-70s story from Girls' Romances #144 (1969) and reprinted in Young Love #112 (1974), originally titled "I Couldn't Be Faithful!"

Illustrated by Ric Estrada and Vince Colletta.

This reprint follows the format we mentioned HERE about taking old stories, updating the art to show contemporary fashions and hairstyles, though in this case, the 1974 reprint has very few art changes (mostly the guys' hairstyles) from the 1969 original, which was the cover story...

But, changing the title wasn't done very often.

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Christmas Comics COOKIE "Do Your Xmas Shopping Early"

How do you make some extra cash for Christmas?

If you're a teenager named "Cookie", it's usually the hard way...

Oddly enough, I couldn't find a Christmas-specific story in over 400 romance comics!

So I went with this teen humor strip from Cookie #10 (1947), written and illustrated by Dan Gordon, who was a writer-animator-director for the Fleischer Studios (Superman, Popeye), then went into comics, finally returning to animation at Hanna-Barbera where he co-created (among others) The Flintstones!

We're taking a week off and will be back after New Year's Day.

Merry Christmas

and

Happy New Year

ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "Black Lily"

Let's journey back to the 1700s, when men were dashing, women were demure...

...and court intrigue was common!

This page was the inside back cover of the comic, so it's b/w rather than color.

This torrid tale from Adventures in Romance #1 (1949) was illustrated by Leonard Starr, who did over 400 comic stories in the late 1940s-mid 1950s, went on to create the long-running (1957-79) newspaper soap-opera strip Mary Perkins on Stage and then took over the writing and illustrating chores on Annie (adapting his realistic style to match original artist Harold Gray's looser, "cartoonier" style) finally ending up as the primary designer and story editor on the original ThunderCats animated tv series!

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