SOUL LOVE "Teacher"

From one of the two creatives who invented romance comics...

...comes this, sadly, never-published tale which would've appeared in a magazine entitled Soul Love, if DC had the guts to publish it!

(Note: this post uses scans of photocopies of the original art, so the images are not as crisp as we usually run.

But we felt the historical significance of the story warranted running what was available!)

Written and penciled by Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta
You can read other Soul Love tales we've presented HERE , HERE, and HERE.
Soul Love would have been the second romance comic oriented to a Black audience.

The first was the 1950s series Negro Romance, which we covered HERE.

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NEGRO ROMANCES "My Heart's Dilemma"

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.

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CAREER GIRL ROMANCES "Sorrow Song"

What happens when, like most people...

...you can't make singing your career?

And worse, the bandmate you love is a cheating dog...

What does Johnny do for a living now, since he's not performing?

Why was he "away" (a euphemism for being incarcerated)?

Will he and Lauri remain in Michigan or go back to...well. whatever city they were performing in?

This never-reprinted Joe Gill-scripted/Jim Aparo illustrated tale under a Dick Giordano cover from Charlton's Career Girl Romances #40 (1967) never clears up those aspects...

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AGAR-AGAR "Village in the Sea"

As promised last October...

...we return to the psychedelic universe of an alien woman named after a plant food!

Whoa! 

That's heavy, man.

Pollution is, like, universal, man.

But, like, the Magic of Love can defeat it...

This story from New England Library's Dracula #2 (1971) was written by Luis Gasca under the pen-name Sadko  and illustrated in a Peter Max-esque style by Alberto Solsona.

It's the second of three that were published in the Warren trade paperback that reprinted the first six issues of this British magazine.

The remaining three stories have been unseen by American audiences, but will be posted here over the next few months.

It'll be a groovy trip, baby!

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WOMEN IN LOVE "Golden Wedding"

Romance!

Beautiful young people in passionate lovemaking!

Not this time...

...because, occasionally, we should look at the "happily ever after" we always talk about, not just how we got there!

See?

The "happily ever after" can be as kool as the path to it!

Sadly, there's no record of the creatives behind this particular never-reprinted story from Ziff-Davis' one-shot 100-pager Women in Love (1952) which featured (as seen HERE) a line-up of atypical stories for the genre!

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