LOVERS' LANE "Heartbreak in My Search for Love"

We've spent over a month with the Gothic and supernatural...

...let's get back to the basics of True Love...like kissing and crying and betrayal!

The writer of this stereotypical (but entertaining) tale from Lev Gleason's Lovers' Lane #2 (1949) is unknown, but the art is by Fred Kida with an uncredited assist from George Tuska.

Kida worked steadily in both comic books and newspaper strips from the early 1940s through the mid-1980s, including stints on Flash Gordon, Amazing Spider-Man, and, most famously, AirBoy!

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GHOST WOMAN "and the Plague of WereWolves"

She returned from the dead to save her husband from werewolves...

...in her one and only appearance from Star-Studded Comics #1 (1945)

If this series continued, we would have learned more about Ghost Woman's abilities and limitations and her husband John would come to the realization that she was serving as his "guardian angel".

Unfortunately, publisher Cambridge House produced only one issue each of three anthology titles featuring a number of potentially-interesting series and then went out of business.
None of the strips were picked up by other publishers.
I'm surprised something similar to Ghost Woman hasn't come along since 1945!
Considering the ongoing popularity of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight Saga, a concept like Ghost Woman seems like a sure hit!
We hope you've enjoyed our month-long look at our idea of "weird love" comics.

Happy Halloween!

Next week:

The long-awaited Gothic Tales of Love prose novelette
Legend of the Seventh Virgin
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STRANGE WORLD OF YOUR DREAMS "I Talked with My Dead Wife!"

Can the power of love enable a deceased spouse (and mother) to communicate...

...from beyond the grave to protect her loved ones?

In 1950, the writer/artist team of Simon & Kirby created Black Magic, a comic book about unexplained phenomena which quickly became a best-seller.

Their publisher, Prize Comics asked them for another, related series, so they conceived and produced Strange World of Your Dreams.

The theme was dreams and nightmares, with the added aspect of having readers submit their own dreams to be dramatized and analyzed in the comic!

This particular tale from SWoYD #1 (1952), written and illustrated by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, theorized that a deceased mother's love for her child transcended the boundaries of life and death with the unwitting aid of her still-grieving husband, a tale of true love, but not a romance, per se.

SWoYD was an interesting approach to the horror genre, but unfortunately, it didn't sell well enough to survive past it's 4th issue.

Next week:

We wind up our fantasy-themed October posts with a woman who returns from the grave to protect her spouse from werewolves!
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SPACE ADVENTURES "All for Love"

Most sci-fi fans believe love can exist between any sentient beings...

...and, yes, we're referring to hot 'n heavy "getting it on" love, not the "love thy neighbor" type.

I'm sure you were expecting some sort of "Twilight Zone-twist" ending, but weren't sure exactly what it would be.

Luckily, readers of this blog hadn't seen the cover to Charlton's Space Adventures #8 (1953) the way readers who picked up the comic from a drugstore or newsstand saw it, before reading the story...

Art by Dick Giordano

...because it gives away the plot twist!

Illustrated by Dick Giordano (pencils) and Art Cappello (inks).

The writer is unknown.

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BLACK MAGIC "Romantic Souls"

This is a ghostly love story, but not a "breathless romance" tale...

Art by Jack Kirby

...instead, it's a story of enduring love from the creators of the romance comic genre!

This gentle, never-reprinted tale from Prize's Black Magic #25 (1953) was laid out by Jack Kirby and penciled/inked by Al Eadeh.

The Simon & Kirby team edited/art directed the book, and wrote most of the stories, so one or both of them probably scripted this one.

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