YOUNG LOVE "Be My Valentine"

We had intended to post this on Valentine's Day...

...since this tale from the Golden Age team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who pioneered the romance comics genre was all about a Valentine's Day card and it's effect on both sender and receiver.
But s#!t happens, and, unfortunately, it's a day late.
Enjoy our belated Valentine to you, our faithful readers...

While Young Love was the second romance comic published (Simon & Kirby's Young Romance in 1947 was the first), it was the last ongoing romance title published by a major publisher, ending it's run in 1977.

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A tale from a never-published 1970s comic, scanned from the original art!

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3-D: LOVELORN "Moment to Remember"

You won't need the red/blue 3-D glasses to read this 3-D comic story...

...because it's not red/blue 3-D, but an idea to simulate 3-D called...

And now, on with the story...

It's a clever idea, but I can see how it would become irritating on an ongoing basis.
Art by Harry Lazarus, one of a trio of siblings (including Sid and Leon) who all ended up writing and/or illustrating comic books during the 1940s-1960s.
(They are not related to Mell Lazarus, writer/artist of the comic strips Miss Peach and Momma, who also worked in comic books in the 1950s.
Small world, ain't it?)

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It's Valentine's Day, so we're presenting a special tale by the guys who created the romance comic, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...

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YOUNG ROMANCE "Love Me, Love Me Not!"

What do you do when the one you love falls for someone else?

Art by Bill Draut

But, at the same time, something happens to you, as shown in the cover story from Young Romance #168 (1970)...

This titillating tale of heartbreak, hornyness, and hypocrisy, was written by Jack Miller, and illustrated by Don Heck, who did a lot of romance work from the 1950s to the late 1970s, penciling or inking in conjunction with others, or doing his own complete art (like this tale)!

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We go 3-D (well, sort of) with this tale...

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DARING CONFESSIONS "My Sister and I"

Two women fighting over a man isn't that unusual...

...but two siblings in conflict can make for serious problems as this story from the aptly-named Daring Confessions #8 (1953) shows...

The art is by Vince Colletta, an inker noted for his amazing speed whose feathery style was one of the hallmarks of romance comics of the 1950s and 60s.

He did very few pencil jobs, and this particular one shows influences, if not outright swipes, from a number of other artists including Alex Toth, Wally Wood, Ross Andru, even Steve Ditko!

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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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