True Love Comics Tales

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

IDEAL LOVE AND ROMANCE "Forbidden Love"

Sometimes the opening caption says it all...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Ideal Love and Romances #5 (1949) demonstrates.

Both the writer and penciler are unknown, though the inker appears to be Christopher Rule.

BTW, though this issue was #5, it was actually the one and only issue of Timely's Ideal Love and Romance!

Before that, it was Ideal: a Classical Comic.

With #6 it became simply Love Romances, and survived for one hundred issues as Timely became Atlas, until #106 (1963) around the time Atlas became Marvel!

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE "Black Lily"

Let's journey back to the 1700s, when men were dashing, women were demure...

...and court intrigue was commonplace!

This page was the inside back cover of the comic, so it's b/w rather than color.

This torrid tale from St John's Adventures in Romance #1 (1949) was illustrated by Leonard Starr, who did over 400 comic stories in the late 1940s-mid 1950s, went on to create the long-running (1957-79) newspaper soap-opera strip Mary Perkins on Stage and then took over the writing and illustrating chores on Annie (adapting his realistic style to match original artist Harold Gray's looser, "cartoonier" style) finally ending up as the primary designer and story editor on the original ThunderCats animated tv series!

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Love on the Racks

A History of American Romance Comics

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

WOMEN IN LOVE "I Was a Greenwich Village Character"

For over a century, NYC's Greenwich Village has been considered a creative utopia...

...and the unknown writer of this tale seems very familiar with the workings of both the commercial art and fine art communities that mingled in The Village!

This never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' 100-page one-shot Women in Love (1952) is incredibly-overwritten, as if it was a prose story that just happened to be illustrated!

Artist Gerald McCann had the unenviable task of trying to actually illustrate panels that are overflowing with captions and text!

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Love on the Racks

A History of American Romance Comics

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

OUR LOVE STORY "He's Hers, But--I Want Him!"

A story so moving...so true to life...that the same book ran it twice within three years!

Here it is, from Marvel's Our Love Story #6 (1970) and Our Love Story #21 (1973)

Apparently fashions and hairstyles didn't change enough to warrant modifying the art by Gene Colan and Dick Ayers as is usually done with reprints!

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Marvel Romance: the Trade Paperback!

Marvel's picked some of the best love comics from the 60s and 70s!

"It Happened at Woodstock," "My Heart Broke in Hollywood," "Love on the Rebound!"

Collects Love Romance #89 and #101-104; My Love #2, #14, #16 and #18-20; Teen-Age Romance #77 and #84, Our Love Story #5; and Patsy Walker #119.