Love is a Prison YOUNG LOVE "Love Behind Bars!"

It starts off the way the previous "Love is a Prison" stories did...

...but you'll never see the ending that's coming!

It took a full year after this cover-featured tale by writer Robert Kanigher, penciler Art Saff, and inker Vince Colletta appeared in DC's Young Love #119 (1975-76), but there was a resolution to the story, as shown in this ad from Young Love #123 (1977)... 

You, Dear Reader, Won't Have to Wait a Year...or Even a Month to Find Out What Happens!

Just Be Here Tomorrow!

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Love is a Prison A MOON, A GIRL...ROMANCE "Prison Widow"

Our previous story dealt with a "good girl" who loved a "bad boy" and paid the price!

Now witness a tale where things, hopefully, might end differently!

Written and illustrated by Al Feldstein, this rarely-reprinted story from EC's A Moon, a Girl...Romance #12 (1950) ends with potential happiness for Florence....but was the original version meant to show her losing both men?

BTW, even though it was the cover-featured story for this issue, the cover was just so dull and boring...

...not to mention inaccurate (since Flo didn't know her incarcerated hubby was heading home after being paroled), that we went with the far more exciting splash page!

Next Week...

Another Story About How

Love is a Prison...with Two Twists!

One of Them is That Both of the Lovers are Incarcerated!

(And We Aren't Telling You What the Other One Is!)

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Confessions Illustrated

(No Copies of the Out-of-Print Complete Reprint of the A Moon, a Girl...Romance Hardcover are Currently Available on Amazon)

Love is a Prison ALL TRUE ROMANCE "Love Blind"

There's a cliche about how "girls love bad boys"...

...and Sally Jones is about to discover how "bad" a boy Ace Miller is...and how he'll prove Love is a Prison!

The scripter for this never-reprinted story from Comic Media's All True Romance #9 (1953) is unknown, and the art is by the staff of the Iger Studio, who provided editorial and art services to small publishers who didn't have their own creatives.
So, we don't know who to credit (or blame) for this particular tale.
Note: as of the next issue, the publisher began producing their own material using a mix of established and new/upcoming writers and artists who created a unique look and tone for their entire line (not just the romance books) until the company's demise two years later due to the industry-shaking "Seduction of the Innocent" mania of the mid-1950s.

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Another Story About How

Love is a Prison!

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

FALLING IN LOVE "I Was a Prisoner of Love!"

It's a new month...and a new topic for the month!

Read the story and see if you can guess what type of tale we'll be presenting for the rest of the month!

(Hint: It ain't what you'll think!)

Did you guess the genre for the month from this never-reprinted, cover-featured story from DC's Falling in Love #71 (1964), illustrated by penciler Mike Sekowsky and inkers Joe Giella and Frank Giacoia?

It ain't show business romance!

(Although that's a whole category perfect for another month!)

It ain't men who use women and then dump them!

It ain't women who let themselves be treated like doormats!

Actually, the answer is purely in the (admittedly-metaphorical) title!

We're doing "Love is a Prison" in September...which will feature one (or both) of the protagonists incarcerated!

Yes, this story is a bit of a cheat, but the tale is so delightfully-overwrought and the cover was sooo kool, that we wanted to find some reason to post it!
And you did enjoy it, didn't you?

Forgive us?

Next Week...

One (or Both) of Our Lovers is Imprisoned!

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

Laugh at Love/Beach Read FORBIDDEN BRIDES OF THE FACELESS SLAVES IN THE SECRET HOUSE OF THE NIGHT OF DREAD DESIRE Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Now that Neil Gaiman himself has seen fit to explain what's going on, let's continue...

We hope you've enjoyed our annual "beach read" book-length gothic romance graphic tale and will join us every week (not just during the summer) for more...

True Love Comics Tales!

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Gothic!

(An anthology of original Gothic horror prose tales by various authors where the short story the graphic novel is based on first appeared)

and/or

Fragile Things

by Neil Gaiman

(Prose anthology of Gaiman's work featuring the short story the graphic novel is based on, along with background information)

and/or

Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire

by Neil Gaiman and Shane Oakley

(Graphic novel adaptation of the short story)