REALISTIC ROMANCES "My Scandalous Affair!"

With a name like Realistic Romances, you know this will be a gentle, wholesome tale...

..."My Scandalous Affair!"...er, forget I said anything.

Just enjoy...

This cover-featured story from Avon's Realistic Romances #16 (1954) was illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler who went on to better things...notably portraits of the rich and powerful!

He's painted every American President from Nixon thru George W Bush!

Presumably, when President Obama has a free afternoon (he's been rather busy with projects like disposing of Bin Laden.)...

In fact, Kinstler's Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan paintings are the official White House portraits for them!

Unlike many other "fine" artists who started out doing commercial art, Kinstler happily acknowledges his comic book work.

Trivia:

This story was from the second run of Realistic Romances which ran #15-#17.

The first series ran from #1-#8.

A third series from another publisher ran #1, then #8-#9!

So if you're looking to collect this title, there's no #10-#14, but two #1s and #8s!

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BOY MEETS GIRL "Kind of Man I'd Like to Marry" & "Will You Be a Bride...or an Old Maid?"

You thought Cosmopolitan had a monopoly on these kind of quizzes?

Art by Curt Swan and ?

They were a popular feature of romance comics as well, as these pages from Lev Gleason's Boy Meets Girl #2 (1950) and #20 (1952) show!

And to help you avoid ending up an "old maid", the editors thoughtfully provided...

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TEEN CONFESSIONS "Perfect Date"

Remember Dating Game?
They're reviving it next week on tv as The Choice.

Let's look a a story about what would later be called a reality show, scripted and illustrated during the original show's heyday in the 1970s...

This tale from Charlton's Teen Confessions #85 (1974) was illustrated by Demetrio Sanchez Gomez with a slightly-different style (and unlike the previous story we presented, he doesn't sign every page!)

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COMPLETE ROMANCE "Women to Love" Part 2

Don't freak out!

You didn't miss Part 1!

It's HERE, at our brother blog, Crime & Punishment™!

This is Part 2 of a multi-blog post, telling a cross-genre story over several blogs, encompassing both crime and romance in equal measure with an adult-oriented plotline and lots of violence!

To recap...

Scarlett was an easily-impressed teen when she fell for Rocco Conselmo, a charismatic gangster working his way up the ranks of the Chicago's Prohibition-era underworld.

As her lover became involved in progressively-more dangerous situations, the once-star-struck girl came to realize the life-style she thought was glamorous and exciting was, in fact, sordid and lethal.

And the man she loved was becoming hard and cruel...

This sleazy story continues on Thursday in Seduction of the Innocent™!

The original novel is by Sinclair Drago (aka Harry Sinclair Drago, who also wrote Westerns under the pseudonym "Bliss Lomax".)

Illustrated by Myron Fass.

The comic's scripter/adapter is unknown.

This tale has been reprinted several times in the '40s and '50s, but not since then...until now!

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MOON GIRL "Introducing Moon Girl & the Prince"

Here's a slightly-different love story...

She was the princess of a far-off land, come to America after winning an athletic tournament!
She was super-strong, near-invulnerable, and could fly for short distances!
Equipped with exotic weaponry, she battled evil and constantly rescued her non-super powered boyfriend!
And, she wore a red-yellow-blue costume with a revealing top and VERY short blue shorts!
Sounds like Wonder Woman, doesn't it?
But, it's NOT!
It's MOON GIRL!
"WTF!!!" you may exclaim! "Who's 'Moon Girl'?"
Read on...

Moon Girl appeared in her own title, originally called Moon Girl & the Prince (1947),
co-created by writer Bill Woolfolk and illustrator Sheldon Moldoff.
Note: Woolfolk's first wife, Dorothy Woolfolk, was also a comics writer/editor who worked on, among others, Wonder Woman, Lois Lane, Supergirl, and romance titles at DC Comics!

As of #2, it became just Moon Girl as Prince Mengu disappeared from all but the lead story in each issue.
When #7 came out, it became Moon Girl Fights Crime, the Prince was gone entirely, and the backups became true-crime tales narrated by Moon Girl. The lead stories were still Moon Girl adventures.
Two issues later (#9), the book became a romance title, A Moon, A Girl, Romance! (The final Moon Girl story appeared in the back.)
Finally, as of #13, the book shifted gears into science fiction and became Weird Fantasy!
Curiously, though almost all of EC Comics' output over the years has been reprinted in both comic and book form, AFAIK, Moon Girl has yet to appear, except as a footnote in Weird Fantasy reprints!

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