In Space No One Can Hear You Smooch AMAZING ADVENTURES "Asteroid Witch"

Comic book romance stories are geared towards 'tween/teen/young adult females...

Art by Clinton Spooner

...which make you wonder what the 'tween/teen/young adult male attitude on romance is.

This never-reprinted story from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #1 (1950) offers that viewpoint.

And what have we learned today?

Women, alien or not, are scheming little trollops, plotting to control helpless men, usually by tricking them into marriage.
No wonder there's so much misogyny in America...

While the writer for this story is unknown (but believed to be editor Jerry [Superman] Siegel), the art is by Murphy Anderson, who did a lot of work for Ziff-Davis Comics before moving on to illustrate the Buck Rogers newspaper strip!

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Newsroom Nookie DARING CONFESSIONS "Scandal Sheet"

 Imagine, a tabloid that purchases stories involving famous/important people...

...then keeps them from being published and embarrassing the famous/important people!

Such "catch and kill" schemes couldn't actually happen, right?

This never-reprinted story from Youthful's Daring Confessions #4 (1951) can't seem to decide what its' plotting priorities are!

Is it a love story...or a tale of hard-hitting journalists working together...or both?

You decide!

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WE Hated Men! SAVAGE TALES "Fury of the Femizons"

You'd think nothing says "I Hated Men!" like a woman running a sword through a man's heart...

...except in the case presented in this Women's Lib-era story from the b/w magazine Savage Tales #1 (1971)!

(Was it really over a half-century ago?

Lord, I feel so old...)

Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by John Romita, Sr,  this tale had an unusual genesis, as detailed on the editorial page by editor Roy Thomas...

Women's liberation.
It's all around us, be we male or female.

marches, intellectual treatises, picketing, bra-burning, some four-letter forensics, and more burnings–not always of bras.

"Women are the equals of men every day, in every way!'

Men are beginning to believe it.

Women always knew it.

So what happens if maybe we come the full circle in, say the next hundred years or so?

What if women turn the rascals out–and we do mean out!

What would we have then?

A better world? Perhaps.

A gentler world? Could be.

A different world? Believe it.

Stan Lee got to wondering-and, by and by, he set imaginative artist Johnny Romita to wondering along with him.

The result is, perhaps, something just a wee bit new under the sun.

Not quite sword-and-sorcery–certainly not science-fiction–and not exactly a political polemic.

Robin Morgan clobbers Buck Rogers in the 25th century!

Kate Millett zaps both Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless–then takes over Mongo for good measure!

The hand that rocks the cradle really rules the world!

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SUGAR BOWL COMICS "Ginny in 'I Hate Men!' "

Why can't hating men be fun?

This never-reprinted entry in the teen humor genre from Eastern Color's Sugar Bowl Comics #2 (1948) answers the question!

Ginny Lambert was the comic's lead character, and disappeared when the book was cancelled after only five issues!
None of the title's stories have ever been reprinted, and we intend to correct that oversight in the future.
Illustrated by Gerald "Jerry" Fasano, who worked in the business from 1949 to 1959, then disappeared.

Whether he passed away or simply switched to another profession is unknown, as is the scripter of this tale.

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INTIMATE LOVE "I Hated Men"

Sometimes there are valid reasons for women to be cautious about men...

...but rarely are there situations that require not just distrust, but hatred of the other gender!

We don't know who scripted or illustrated this never-reprinted story from Standard's Intimate Love #13 (1951), but this tale is a classic example of unrealistic plotting and scripting, even by comic book standards!

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