HAUNTED LOVE "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!"

Even witches in Salem deserve to find love, whether here or in the afterlife!

Henrietta learned that love is more than just a pretty face that can conceal a shallow, loathsome soul, and sometimes a real "bad boy" turns out to be your true love!

Written by George Wildman and illustrated by Spider-Man and Dr Strange co-creator Steve Ditko,  this never-reprinted tale appeared in Charlton's Haunted Love #4 (1973), the longest-running gothic romance comic ever!

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Our Annual Halloween presentation of spooky,  sci-fi, and Gothic romance tales continues with a two-parter that takes 'Til Death Do Us Part to extremes!

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REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 14 Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...well, not this, since it happens later on in this post.
But, we did see the hinted-at past of Karen Wilder Sommers, who decides to get out of her lonely room...

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This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #123 (1967) was written by Jack Miller, with layouts and pencils by several people including Jay Scott Pike, Win Mortimer, and Ross Andru with inks by Jack Abel.

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REACH FOR HAPPINESS Episode 14

Welcome back to romance comics' longest-running soap opera...

What's this?
Karen Wilder Sommers in the arms of Ray Silva?
How will this happen?
Read on...

"Back home" is where the story began, with Karen's return to Danvers Corners.

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The story behind for the splash page!
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This chapter of "Reach for Happiness" from Secret Hearts #123 (1967) was written by Jack Miller, with layouts and pencils by several people including Jay Scott Pike, Win Mortimer, and Ross Andru, with inks by Jack Abel.

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ROMANTIC STORY "Once Burned..."

When you want to teach a wayward boyfriend a lesson...

...it's not a good idea to use a "bad boy" to do it!

The art for this tale from Charlton's Romantic Story #88 (1967) is by Nestor Olivera, an Argentine war comics artist who, oddly, did mostly romance stories for Charlton!

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The Return of Reach for Happiness...

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ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "September Squall"

With autumn right around the corner...

...here's a tale for the final weekend of warm weather that really fits the concept of a "beach read'!

You'll note a couple of two-page spreads at the beginning of the story.
This particular comic series, St John's Adventures in Romance #1 (1949), experimented with doing double-page spreads to establish a distinctive "look".
Sadly, it only lasted two issues.  ;-(
Artist Warren King spent several years in comic books doing everything from superheroes to horror to romance, before moving into newspaper cartooning, becoming the in-house editorial artist at the NY Daily News and winning the National Cartoonists Society Best Editorial Cartoonist Award in 1968.

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We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...

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