NEGRO ROMANCE "Too Late for Love"

Boy meets girl...

...girl's best friend marries boy!

Girl falls for new boy, but then best friend and hubby re-enter girl's life and...

Presuming Artie does take her back and they marry, how are they going to get custody of the kid?

I suspect writer Roy Ald didn't really think the problem through in this never-reprinted story from Fawcett's Negro Romance #1(1950)!
The illustrator who hewed closely to the Fawcett "house style" is unknown.

Thanks to Kracalactaka for the scans.

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At long last, we present the final story...

...from Jack (King) Kirby's Soul Love!

Note...it's somewhat "politically incorrect"...but not for the reason you might think!

(Hey, look!

A "Kirby Quote"!)

You'll note pages 5 and 6 aren't as "clean" as the other pages, which are scanned from the actual original art!

They're scanned from photocopies, which are the only versions I could acquire, but they're legible enough to "fill out" the tale!
(Oh, man!
More "Kirby Quotes"!)

Written/penciled/edited by Jack Kirby and inked by Vince Colletta, the story takes the typical attitude of the period about overweight women, though Aleda's not actually obese.

(In fact, I was involved with a woman who had a similar body type, which I found extremely-appealing!)

You can read other Soul Love tales we've presented HERE.
Soul Love would have been the second romance comic oriented to a Black audience.

The first was the four-issue 1950s series Negro Romances, which we covered HERE.

Thanks to Kracalactaka for the scans.

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Love in the Time of Covid-19 LOVELORN "Helping Heart!"

Just when you thought they couldn't do anything else with a disease-themed romance tale...

...this never-reprinted story from ACG's LoveLorn #3 (1949-50) comes along with a tale jam-packed with unexpected soap opera-style plot-twists!

Wow!

I'm exhausted!

So, jaded, manipulative girl loses handsome doctor to woman whose inherent innocence and purity of heart (and extreme work ethic) lures the MD to her...and she didn't even intend to do so!

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The Golden Age of Romance Comics

Love in the Time of Covid-19 FIRST ROMANCE "Midnight Kisses" and FIRST LOVE "Prescription - Love"

Usually it's two women fighting over the same man...

...but now, the tables are turned as a female MD must choose between a fellow doctor or a fever-ridden patient!

This tale from Harvey's First Romance #9 (1951) seems innocent, in fact, downright innocuous, eh?

The Comics Code Authority, founded in 1954, didn't think so!

When the story was reprinted in Harvey's First Love #79 (1957), they insisted on numerous changes...beginning with the title...which they apparently thought was too salacious!

Most of the other changes involve captions and dialogue, but also note a couple of art modifications!

Did the Comics Code go too far?
Were they over-reacting?
Enquiring minds want...nay...need to know~

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Love in the Time of Covid-19 CYNTHIA DOYLE: NURSE IN LOVE "Smash-Up!"

"Could Her Love Win Over Death?"

Without further adieu,  let's get to today's story about a loved one suffering from a debilitating disease...or is he?

This never-reprinted tale from Charlton's Cynthia Doyle: Nurse in Love #69 (1963) plays up the "...In Love" aspect of the title while providing some rather iffy medical concepts!

Remember, this is a soap opera in comic book form!

It's not meant to be even a semi-serious feature about a female medical professional, like Dr Pat!

This is, as most 1950s-1970s strips starring nurses were, a three-Kleenex romance comic!

Heck, before the book became Cynthia Doyle: Nurse in Love as of #66, it was Sweetheart Diaries, a romance anthology!

Cynthia appeared in a single story in the final issue, then the entire book was turned over to her!
Why?

In the early 1960s, one of the most-popular genres in pop culture was "medical drama"!

Spearheaded on TV by hunky prime-time physicians Dr Kildare and Ben Casey along with the related series The Nurses as well as daytime soap operas with hospital settings and paperback romance novels with covers featuring "studs in scrubs" with swooning nurses, comics hopped on the medical bandwagon!

Charlton, which couldn't afford the rights to comics based on any of the TV shows, launched numerous series featuring doctors and nurses including Dr Tom Brent: Young Intern, Nurse Betsy Crane, Young Interns, Sue & Sally Smith: Flying Nurses and, of course, this book!

(Oddly, there were never any cross-over stories between the various books!)

Written by Joe Gill, penciled by Dick Giordano and inked by Vince Colletta, this story came about halfway through the book's run.

BTW: the series ended with Nurse Doyle and Doctor Benson's love unconsummated!
Surprised?

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