Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Halloween HeartBreak WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Speck of StarDust!"

A tale about the warmth of love in the coldness of space...
...with a twist ending worthy of The Twilight Zone!
Illustrated by Hy Fleishman, this never-reprinted story from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #4 (1952) shows true love is universal!
Next week:
Another Tale of True Love...with a Halloween Twist!
You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Amorous Education CAMPUS ROMANCES "One Way Romance"

If you thought last week's story about a girl falling for a guy who looked like a younger version of her father was weird...

...wait until you see this little tale!





Yeah, waiting until she graduates to marry won't get any tongues wagging!
I can see the first faculty get-together after the wedding...
"Hi, Professor Banner!
Congratulations on your nuptials!
Odd, your lovely bride looks so...familiar?"
"Oh, she was in your European Classical Literature class last semester, Professor Warren!"
Illustrated by Jerry Grandenetti, and scripted by an unknown author, this never-reprinted story from Avon's Campus Romances #2 (1950) is an interesting insight as to what was "polticially-correct" back then!

Next Week:
We Begin Our Annual Octoberfest of Fantasy/Sci-Fi Romances!
And Yes, You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Amorous Education LOVE ROMANCES "No Dates for the Dance!" / MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX "Callie Crandall: Co-Ed Campus Undercover Cuite"

College is stressful enough without this...
...which is enough to reduce even the smartest of students to a despairing sad sack!
You would think this tale about a girl falling for a guy who looks exactly like the younger version of her daddy by penciler Dick Giordano & inker Vince Colletta (along with an unknown writer)  from Atlas' Love Romances #89 (1960) was kinky enough, right?
But Marvel decided it needed the raunchiness kicked up to 11!
So writer Michael Lieb kept the art, but re-wrote the story for Marvel Romance Redux: Restraining Orders are for Other Girls (2006)...
Just when you thought romance comics couldn't get any weirder...

Next Week...
Another Tale of Amorous Education!
And, we can guarantee that...

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!
(Yeah, we say that a lot...but it's true!)

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Which includes "No Dates for the Dance"
And / Or
Marvel Romance Redux
Which includes "Callie Crandall: Co-Ed College Cutie"

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Amorous Education CO-ED ROMANCES "Education for Love"

Cupid returns to the classroom...

...as we spend the rest of September with hormonally-driven students in college and high school!




PL's Co-Ed Romances
(and its' "sister book" Love Life) only had a single issue each in 1951.
The publisher is noted as the only comics company with more than a single title to last only 6 months!
Next Week:
We Continue with Stories Combining School and Sex!
And Yes, You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

VICKI "Kiss and Tell" 2.0

The original version of this "meta" tale of a comic book character reading a comic book appeared HERE...

...now here's the same story, with "updated" clothing and hairstyles and a different lead character., but the same supporting cast!

When Seaboard Publishing/Atlas Comics reprinted this tale in Vicki #2 (1975), they did the usual modifications to keep the tale looking "current" that everybody else did with their older teen humor and romance material.
I don't know if Atlas/Seaboard tried to get the rights to Tower's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, at that point only five years after their last appearance and still-fondly remembered by comics fans!
But, they ended up with Tippy Teen...who was renamed Vicki!
My personal opinion is that Seaboard's Martin Goodman discovered that Tower had abandoned the negatives/photostats at the printer (whom they didn't pay).
Like Israel Waldman who took similar abandoned material for his Super/IW Comics line, Goodman took the material (which also had never been copyrighted, so it was Public Domain as soon as it was published) and reprinted it, changing only the title to avoid a nuisance lawsuit from Tower (which was still publishing paperbacks) and claim a new copyright on the modified reprinted material.