Halloween HeartBreak THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED! "Bridegroom, Come Back!"

" 'Til Death Do Us Part..." Takes on a Whole New Meaning...

...during the Halloween season, when the barriers between this life and the next one blur!

Steve (SpiderMan/Doctor Strange) Ditko did very few romance-themed stories during his half-century in comics.

So whenever one pops up, we take note of it, such as this tale from Charlton's This Magazine is Haunted #18 (1954).
As for who wrote it, the author is likely Charlton's go-to scripter Joe Gill, but we can't confirm it.

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Steve Ditko Archives Vol 1

Strange Suspense

(Which reprints this story)

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Halloween HeartBreak GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE "Crush"

Just When You Believe American Romance Comics in General...

...and Gothic Romance Comics in Particular, Died Out, Along Comes a Kool Anthology of Them!

Scripted by Janet Hetherington, rendered by Ronn Sutton, and colored by Bekka Kinzie, this tale from Bedside Press' Gothic Tales of Haunted Love is a wild variation on the "handsome widowed sea captain and the beautiful virginal governess" plot that was a classic Victorian romance trope which still has a happy ending, even without the sea captain...or perhaps due to not having the sea captain!

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Halloween HeartBreak WEB OF EVIL "Face from Hell"

This is one time you really can't judge a book by it's cover!

...and only True Love will provide the ability to those whose eyes will not see to discern the Truth!

Illustrated by Golden Age/Silver Age workhorse Charles Nicholas and scripted by an unknown writer, this sordid story from Quality's Web of Evil #11 (1954) could've benefited with an extra page to really show the demise of the demon!
After all, it was published in a horror comic, not a romance comic!

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Halloween HeartBreak WITCHING HOUR "ComputERRR!"

As this story from DC's The Witching Hour #8 (1970) proves...

...Artificial Intelligence doesn't provide all the answers...or even knows the questions!

Scripted and illustrated by comics and animation legend Alex Toth, it's a classic example of "never judge a book by its' cover!"

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Witching Hour

Volume 1

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Lost Love FALLING IN LOVE "I Found My Love at the WoodStock Festival!"

When We Ran Last Week's Never-Reprinted Lost Love Story Set at Woodstock...

...we had no idea there was a second, also never-reprinted tale...from DC, of all places!

(And this story came out months before the Marvel one!)

Penciled by Werner Roth, inked by Murphy Anderson, and scripted by...well, we don't know who wrote this rather saccharine story...it's nowhere near as "gritty" or realistic (if you can call any comic book tale "realistic") as the My Love piece we ran last week.
To offer a comparison...
The My Love creatives, Gary Friedrich and Gray Morrow were 28 and 38, respectively.
The Falling in Love creatives, Werner Roth and Murphy Anderson, were 50 and 46 at the time.
So we're looking at a differing generational point of view of those events between the two tales...and it really shows!

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