Advice d'Amour DEAR BEATRICE FAIRFAX "Heck of a Thing for a Man to be Doing!"

Before Dear Abby...
Before Ann Landers...
(and I'll bet no reader under 40 knows who they are!)...

Cover by Alex Schomburg

...she was the original "Miss Lonely Hearts" newspaper columnist!

From 1898...

...to the 1960s, several writers using the Fairfax pseudonym offered advice to people at every stage of romantic entanglement from first dates to marriage to widowhood and divorce.

The column's popularity resulted in a radio show, an action-packed silent movie serial where "Beatrice" herself intervened personally in matters both romantic and criminal (Girls have always loved "bad boys"!), and this short-lived 1950-51 comic which dramatized some of her columns!

Now on with today's never-reprinted tale from Standard's Dear Beatrice Fairfax #5 (1950)!

Don't ya just love a happy ending?

Though the scripter (who may have been a King Features Syndicate writer assigned to the project) is unknown, the artist was Vernon Greene, whose work we've already seen HERE.

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Another Story Hosted by Someone Who Believes He/She is Qualified to Solve Other People's Problems!

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Ladies Now and Then

by

Beatrice Fairfax

Advice d'Amour DR ANTHONY KING: HOLLYWOOD LOVE DOCTOR "Too Fat for Love!"

 Remember "John Anthony", the radio talk show host who dispensed advice about romance?

Well, when he received his own comic, it inspired at least one publisher to put out an imitator!

Note that, though the cover reads "Hollywood Love Doctor", the feature itself is called "Hollywood Psychiatrist"!
(Perhaps the publisher thought putting "psychiatrist" on the cover would scare away readers!)

This never-reprinted tale of body-shaming from Toby's Dr Anthony King: Hollywood Love Doctor #1 (1952) was illustrated by Myron Fass.

The writer's name is lost to the mists of time.

As you might have guessed, this month's theme is "comics about busybodies who offer advice to those in romantic distress"...whether they are qualified to do so or not!

The participants range from medical personnel to quacks to newspaper columnists to the little old lady who lives next door!
Though almost every romance comic had such a feature, we're dealing specifically with those characters who actually had their own comics (and there were more of them than you think)!

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Love on the Racks

A History of American Romance Comics

Romance on the Range ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "Stopgap: the Saga of Coby Nash"

Though not strictly a "Western romance" title......St John's anthology Adventures in Romance was an attempt to mix several genres with romance...including high adventure, swashbuckling pirates, and, as you'll see, Westerns...to attract both male and female readers!

Despite running romance strips in almost every genre (except horror and sci-fi), the book only lasted two issues.

Illustrator Leonard Starr spent a decade in comics before moving on to newspaper comic strips, first as an assistant on Flash Gordon, then as the creator/writer/artist of the long-running Mary Perkins: on Stage!
He's best known to contemporary audiences as the creator/writer/designer of the animated TV series ThunderCats!

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Romance on the Range FRONTIER ROMANCE "Ropin' in a Wild Cowpoke"

A new reality series, Farmer Wants a Wife, is about four farm/ranch owners seeking a mate.

And, to tell the truth, they sound a helluva lot like this guy!

Illustrated by Ed Waldman, this tale from Avon's Frontier Romances #1 (1949) starts out transactional, but turns emotional by the end.
BTW, in regard to Fox's Farmer Wants a Wife reality series, the show plays up the "rancher/cowboy" aspects while playing down the "farmer" aspects of the lifestyle.

Wonder why?

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Romance on the Range COWBOY LOVE "Outlaw Girl"

Yes, there were both CowBOY and CowGIRL romance comics!

Perhaps the publishers hoped to capture both the female and male reading audiences!

This tale from Fawcett's Cowboy Love #2 (1949) plays up the "justice in the Old West" plotline, making the romance aspect decidedly-secondary, which might be just as well, since Amy's falling for a guy she's known for such a short period is totally-unrealistic!

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