True Love Comics Tales

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Love in the Time of Covid-19 LOVE DIARY "I was Branded a Flirt, a Nurse Confesses..."

For our final (for now) disease-themed story...

...we present an intense, never-reprinted one from Orbit's Love Diary #1 (1949) which takes a twist you probably don't expect!!

That "life together" continued for five more issues of Love Diary, along with a two-story spinoff featuring supporting character Sally Weeks!

Vicky didn't end up with the wholesome "boy next door" doctor as you might expect, but the glamourous, slightly-arrogant studmuffin!

But, that doesn't mean the course of true love is without some rough patches, as you'll see when we continue this series in our "brother" RetroBlog Medical Comics and Stories!

Next Week

We Begin Our Super-Summer Blogathon featuring...

...Never-Reprinted Romances of Supergirl!

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Love in the Time of Covid-19 CONFESSIONS OF THE LOVELORN "Man in My Past!"

Warning: the story under this Ken Bald-illustrated cover is about an incurable disease...

...but it's not the incurable disease you'll think it is after the first few pages!

So he's not cured, but in remission, though the doctor says the operation was a "complete success"!

Written by editor Richard E Hughes and illustrated by Howard Alexander, this never-reprinted tale from ACG's Confessions of the LoveLorn #57 (1955) tries to make Alan honorable, even noble!

But instead of being honest with his wife, he all but abandoned her and then returned years later expecting her to take him back!

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Our Final (for now) Tale of Disease, Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Love in the Time of Covid-19 TRUE LOVE PROBLEMS AND ADVICE ILLUSTRATED "Was It Love or Pity?"

You've read this basic plot before...but there's several twists you haven't seen...

Oddly, our tale, though listed second in the table of contents, appeared in the back of the book!

Dr Mathews doesn't think much of his own daughter...

This never-reprinted tale from Harvey's True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #2 (1949) was illustrated by comics workhorse Bob Powell.

The scripter is unknown, but could have been Powell himself.

Next Week...

Another Tale of Disease, Debilitating Conditions and Desire!

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Love in the Time of Covid-19 CONFESSIONS OF THE LOVELORN "Someone of My Own!"

Here's a never-reprinted tale from ACG's Confessions of the Lovelorn #95 (1958)...

...that redefines "lovesick"!

Writer Richard Hughes and illustrator Sam Citron add a new twist to the old "steal the doctor from the rich girl whose father is financing his research" plot so common in romance comics!

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