Though the fact the book itself ever existed was ground-breaking...
...the stories themselves weren't as this never-reprinted tale from Fawcett's Negro Romance #1 (1950) shows!
The tale, though well-written, is generic.
There's nothing distinctive about it, though some comics of the era (especially EC), were willing to tackle topics affecting Black people on a daily basis!
Fawcett's romance series editor Roy Ald was the writer of this piece, as he was for all this particular book's stories!
However, the illustrator, who hewed closely to the Fawcett "house style", is unknown.
Next week:
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